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Protect the Covenant

Protect the Covenant

Author: Minister Michele L. Scott
Marriage Enrichment Ministry

One of the greatest affronts to the Kingdom of God is that which the world is calling marriage. Whether called a marriage or a civil union, if it is not between a natural born man and a natural born woman, by God’s standard, it is not a marriage. Point blank. Period. (Genesis 2:24) Yet life as we know it is changing, and we as Kingdom citizens are stuck in the middle. That which the world broadcasts is not of God; but it is happening. Why? Matthew 13:25-26 explains: “but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.”

Protect the CovenantThe enemy has sown a seed among us and it is producing something that calls itself marriage, imitating what God has called holy, but it is not! The scripture declares that the unholy thing is growing in the same place as God’s holy covenant. How could God allow this? Verses 27-30 provides us with greater insight: “The Master said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But the Master said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”

God has allowed His covenant marriages to exist around these “tare marriages” because we are needed in this place! What!!!! Read on… Growing in the same field allows God’s covenant marriages to live righteously in the presence of the tare marriage. God’s couples can be examples of TRUTH and show the tare the more excellent way. Kingdom marriages will have opportunities to share God’s Word which can transform the tare by the renewal of their minds and hearts as they come to understand God’s will for their lives.

Influence will abound as Christian couples obey God and stay committed to the sanctity and fidelity of marriage. Verse 30 concludes with a promise: even though we grow in the same place, God is able to tell His marriages from those tare marriages. The tares marriages will be thrown into the fire but He will gather His covenant marriages unto Himself. The enemy’s seed may have been sown in the midst of Kingdom marriages but God knows and protects His own. Last day living will spawn many things that will challenge us, but when we stand strong in the profession of our faith, speak truth and proclaim God’s promises, we will Protect the Covenant .