YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR MIND CONCERNING MARRIAGE

 

YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR MIND CONCERNING MARRIAGE

The Role Of The Mind We Have In Christ For Relationships

To lay emphasis on this controversial phrase “you’re out of your mind,” and to avoid any form of misguided thinking, let us first consider its biblical roots from 1 Corinthians 2:16, where it reads, “... But we have the mind of Christ,” which in effect is God’s Word. Sadly, most Christians live through life thinking outside this mind we have in Christ, inevitably causing them to act independently (thus acting beside themselves, used in Acts 26), which in itself is an old English phrase for delusion, irrational thinking, and ultimately madness. Conclusively, they act outside the mind they have in Christ, which is the truth of God’s Word concerning life’s issues, thereby taking (obviously misguided) independent decisions due to absent governance and dominance from the mind of Christ.

Now concerning the mind of Christ regarding marriage, to begin with, even Jesus went back to the Father with a bride, and yet you say, “you won’t marry.” What! — the truth remains that it is not good for a man to be alone. Genesis 2:18 recounts, “And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.’” This right here is the genesis of humanity. Proverbs 18:22 explains that “good thing,” and it reads, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing….” That good thing was a spouse.

  Everything God made in genesis, He saw and said “it was good”, it was only to Adam, that He saw and said “it is not good”, and it was in reference to he having no woman as a helper. As a woman is a helper to the man, so is the Holy Spirit to the Church, which is why Jesus used the same phrase “it is good that I go”, because his departure will send the ultimate good thing into the world of mankind, the Holy Spirit, the helper of all men. 

I’ll be quite blunt with you today : truly, you’re out of your mind — thus, as explained earlier, you're out of the mind of Christ, the Word of God concerning marrying early — if you are determined to stay single after God emphatically says it is not a good thing. Whatever might be forbidding your emotions from entertaining thoughts of marriage is what Paul described in 1 Timothy 4 as a doctrine (secular teaching) of devils (through social agents). It is something you know that is eating you up and jerking your pace from the institution of marriage. In Acts 26, Festus the Procurator says to Paul (ESV), “Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning (unnecessary information concerning relationships) is driving you out of your mind (thus, the mind of God for you concerning marriage).”

In Mark 7, Jesus said, “For Moses (the law) said… but you also (question the Word and) say…,” making the Word of God (concerning marriage) of none effect through your tradition — that habit of challenging God’s Word. Proverbs 5:18 says to “…enjoy the wife of your youth,” but you also say, “I need to finish school first.” My dear, you’re out of your mind if you think like this. Never interrupt God when He’s speaking to you in His Word — shut up when the Bible is speaking, give respect to the Word of God.

In Acts 26:24–28, during Paul’s defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are beside yourself! Much learning is driving you mad (putting you out of your mind)!” But Paul said, “I am not mad (not out of my mind).” My dear, when God’s Word rebukes you concerning marriage, don’t talk back. If God, through the written Word, gets your attention concerning something you’re doing wrong, admit, “yes, I am out of my mind, thus acting out of Christ’s mind for me.” This will completely revolutionize you.

If Jesus knew exactly when the ascension was to happen, how come you are not aware of the signs that you are at a stage where you should entertain thoughts of marriage? The KJV puts it, “Paul, thou art beside thyself” — thus, you’re alone and mad — also meaning you’re out of your mind. You are out of the mind of Christ concerning marriage when you do not entertain thoughts of it. Truly.

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