Principle 3: Marriage, this side of heaven, is always a war between two kingdoms.
"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:21 (NIV)
1. Everyone lives for some kind of treasure.
2. The thing that is your treasure will control your heart.
3. What controls your heart will control your words and behaviour.
"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." - Matthew 6:33 (NIV)
4. Do not seek horizontally what you can only get vertically. Do not attempt to solve horizontally what you can only solve vertically.
5. Good things never happen when you turn a blessing into a demand. Husbands do not *need* wives who respect them before they are able to love their wives. Wives do not *need* husbands who love them before they are able to respect their husbands. Christ is all we have, and Christ is all we need.
6. Jesus did not come to make our little kingdoms better. Jesus came to bring us out of our little kingdoms into His kingdom.
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." - 1 John 4:7-11 (NIV)
7. Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not demand reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving. Love loves to love.
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