Review (40): It’s a Wonderful Life: Corporate Marriage: Summary of the 3 Laws of Christian Marriage, 1 Pet 3:1-9; Right Man-Right Woman: Intro

	9.	Jesus Christ proved it effectiveness.  We have been granted the same power He used for 33 years in proving its efficiency.  When filled with the Holy Spirit we are free from sin and may instantly recover from sin through rebound.
10.	This is the process and procedure by which a man and a woman who are believers are able to restore their corporate relationship and thus fulfill the intent of the Christian marriage which is the demonstration to the devil’s world of the unique relationship between Jesus Christ and His church.
11.	One or both parties may not want to be this forgiving and do so over the long haul.  That is their privilege under free will.  But Christ demonstrated that it can be done.  God has imputed the very same system Christ used to us and mandated that we utilize it to function under the Royal Law.
12.	Either or both parties in a Christian marriage may choose to ignore these commandments but they do so at the lost of eternal rewards.
13.	The Third Law of Christian Marriage emphasizes the mutual responsibility required of both spouses as part of the corporate testimony of Christian marriage.

1 Peter 3:1 -	In a similar manner, you wives, remain under the authority of your own husbands that if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word through the behavior of their wives,
v 2 -	when they see your blameless manner of life associated with your respect.
v 3 -	Your beauty should not come from external appearance only—your hair styling, your jewelry, or your clothing;
v 4 -	but the hidden person of the stream of consciousness associated with the imperishable quality of an humble and quiet spirit, which has great value in the sight of God.
v 5 -	In this way in former times holy women, who also had confidence in God, kept adorning themselves by obeying their husbands.
v 6 -	Like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, and called him lord, you have become her daughters, if you do what is intrinsic good and if you do not fear any fear.
v 7 -	Likewise you husbands, live with your wives on the basis of knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to a weaker vessel also as a joint heir of the grace of life, since she is a woman, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
v 8 -	To sum up, everything should be harmonious, sympathetic, unconditional love, compassionate, and humble in spirit;
v 9 -	not giving back evil for evil, or insult for insult, but on the contrary blessing instead; because for this purpose you were called that you might inherit [ escrow ] blessing.
1.	In the last scene we noted, George and Mary responded to the “attraction” stage while talking on the telephone with Sam Wainwright.  This is where George grabs Mary and says, “I don’t want to marry anybody.  I want to do what I want to do.”
2.	He is fighting the fact that once again he has been foiled in the pursuit of a false destiny.  His brother Harry is taking the job with his father-in-law and he is still stuck in Bedford Falls.  Hopes of trips to Europe, a college education, and getting into the architectural profession are dashed again.
3.	Now he realizes that if he submits to his romantic desires for Mary, he will never be able to pursue those goals.
4.	But Mary is a part of God’s perfect plan for George and George is a part of God’s perfect plan for Mary.  Their relationship will quickly advance from attraction to compatibility to rapport.
5.	Both fulfill all three laws of the Christian marriage.  George fails on one momentous occasion that is the subject of the movie.  But on no occasion does Mary fail to exhibit every quality of a Christian wife.
6.	I begin my wedding ceremony with the comment that those attending have gathered together in order to consummate in time what God the Father has decreed in eternity past.
7.	The wedding in progress is the result of the free-will decisions of the bride and groom and thus it was decreed in their PROM chips they would be there that day.
8.	But God also has a perfect plan for each and thus has prepared for them a “right person.”
9.	Although God desires the highest and best for every believer, not every believer goes along with God’s desire.
10.	Nevertheless, the principle of “right man/right woman,” although abused by many and maligned by others, does have biblical backing.  Allow me to demonstrate.
Genesis 2:18 -	Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
Matthew 19:4 -	“Have you not read that who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
v 5 -	and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?
Matthew 19:6 -	“Consequently, they are no longer two, but one flesh.  What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”