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  Edwin Ogenio

“Since they are no longer two but one, let no one separate them, for God has joined them together.” Matthew 19:6 NLT

With the emphasis on “for God has joined them together”, Edwin Ogenio believes that what God puts together in a covenant between Him and the man and woman, no one is able to separate. God wants to shed his light on many of the misunderstandings when it comes to marriage and divorce, especially among Christians. We all seem to know somebody who is divorcing, and it seems like a shock every time. The couple next door with school age children, the elder at the church and his wife, the sports athlete and devoted wife with children, the movie star, your son, your daughter, the wonderful pastor down the road…and the list goes on.

Edwin Ogenio:

The purpose of marriage is to reflect the love relationship between Christ and the Church and to effectively accomplish God’s plan for that particular marriage on this earth, for as the Bible says, there will be no marriage in Heaven. (See Luke 20:34-35)

Edwin Ogenio said:”And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything.”

And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife. No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church. And we are his body.

As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” Matthew 19:6 NLT

“We desperately need God’s help!” - says Edwin Ogenio.

For more info about Edwin Ogenio: EdwinOgenio.com