Pastor Dwayne compared the creation in Paradise with the creation of the church. Central to it is what and how we commit in marriage.
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Ephesians 5:25-27|NIV
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. |
Ephesians 5:32 This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Genesis 2:23-24|NIV 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, 'for she was taken out of man." 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh |