Four pillars of marriage Four evil ways
The Bible identifies four things that make marriage sacred and successful. Our culture has attacked each of these.
Pillar number one is purity, (sexual purity). This purity is defeated in the mind and hearts of many young people before they even get started. How? Pornography that’s how. It permeates everything and desensitizes innocent children to the holiness that preserves sacredness in marriage.
Pillar number two. Oneness, or the covenant of marriage that makes us one. The real attraction of oneness is found in the physical sexual union of a one man and one woman. Oneness is being attacked every day through divorce. What God has united no man should divide, yet division is common and even expected by many. The divorce rate appears to be going down and that is a good thing. But when you see why it is going down you have to reconsider. People just live together and avoid the hassle of marriage and divorce altogether.
Pillar number three is children. The Bible declares children a blessing, yet the abortion holocaust continues, legally, rightfully and unashamedly. For many it is an easy way out of a messy situation.
Pillar number four is commitment. The sacred commitment that creates a bond between a man and a woman. This bond also creates a security for the children who will be born into the covenant. However alternate forms of marriage (man to a man, woman to a woman, adult to a child, human to an animal) strike the commitment with a lethal blow. Marriage is not what we make it to be but what God has determined it to be.
There you have it four pillars of marriage; sexual purity, oneness (when two become one), children and commitment. God’s idea of sanctity for success and fulfillment.
You also have four evils that oppose the sanctity of marriage; pornography, divorce, abortion and homosexuality. It would appear that our culture has lost the war for marriage. We need a king to say Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Jonah 3:8b