2 Cor. 5: 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though

we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in

Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the

ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.

And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s

behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness

of God.

• SOUL MATE• IS MARRIAGE JUST ABOUT FINDING

THE “RIGHT” ONE?

1 Cor. 7:25 “I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by

the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.”

1 Cor. 7:28 “those who marry will face many troubles in this life”

• TWO BECOMING ONE• A Collision of Two Powerful Streams

“22 The Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 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 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

• WHEN LOVE FAILS• THE STORY OF WALTER AND LISA

• WHEN LOVE FAILS• THE STORY OF WALTER AND LISA• WHAT WENT WRONG?

• LOVE IS LIKE A GARDEN

• IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES

• IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES• JESUS SPECIALIZES IN RECONCILING

IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES!

Ephesians 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations.

His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.

Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation.

JESUS IS THE SOIL THAT GROWS BEAUTIFUL MARRIAGES.

TOGETHER, DRAW CLOSE TO HIM.