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W.D. Frazee

Marriage and the Home- Part 2

And let us love 1 another for love is of God and Everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love Note that love has its origin in the heart of God.

From this scripture it is clear that we can never know love merely by receiving love.

Love must flow not only to us, but through us, if we are to understand it.

A poet has expressed it this way, Learn that to love is the 1 way to know or God or man.

It is not love received that maketh man to know the inner life of them that love him.

And so God's great purpose in the home is that you and I shall have the privilege, not merely of receiving love, but of bestowing love, imparting love, expressing love, that thus we may know him.

You remember that statement I read last night from Steps to Christ, page 10.

It is not only through the Bible and through the things of nature that God has spoken to us, but through the deepest and tenderest earthly ties that human hearts can know, he has sought to reveal himself to us.

And keep in mind that it is not just by receiving love that we understand love and God, but it is by giving love, by loving.

In this mystery of love, God in His infinite wisdom has ordained that 1 man and 1 woman shall enter into this most holy place and their share in this love which God has intended shall make them to understand him.

Each companion looking into the other's heart can say, He gave thee to me, dearest, that his love, so flowing through my inmost soul for thee, might make me know his tender thoughts toward me, and thus, through loving thee, his love to prove.

Oh, I wish every married couple in the world knew the mystery.

But as we studied last night, it is a mystery known only to the initiated.

Paul, in Ephesians, the fifth chapter, speaking of the union of husband and wife, says this is a great mystery.

And as we pointed out, just to experience the immersion in water that baptism represents does not mean to know union of the soul with Christ.

The physical experience can represent that deep spiritual union of the individual and the Savior.

But the physical experience may be had by those who know nothing of the spiritual experience.

And so it is in marriage, my friend, a man and a woman may stand at the altar and exchange vows.

They may enter into the physical union of marriage and live as man and wife for weeks and months and years and never know the mystery of divine love that blends 1 heart with the other, 1 life with the other, each preserving its individuality, and yet the 2 blended so completely that Jesus can truly say, they are no longer twain but 1.

Dear married folks, have you entered into that mystery?

Do not wonder if there are heights still to scale, mountains yet to climb.

For the 1 who knows has told us that to gain an understanding, a proper understanding of the marriage relation is the work of a lifetime.

But oh, that we may learn the way, and God's way in this, as in every other subject that concerns our salvation and our happiness, is in the sanctuary.

Now, you'll remember that when God called Moses up into the Mount Sinai to give him certain directions.

He said in Exodus 25a, let him make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

The sanctuary was to be a dwelling place for God.

The heavenly sanctuary is God's dwelling place.

You remember that when it was all built and anointed, the inauguration ceremonies were carried on, that the presence of God came and filled that sanctuary.

The fire of God fell and kindled the incense upon the altar.

The Holy Shekinah took up its dwelling place between the cherubim in the most holy place.

And thus, the purpose of God in the earthly sanctuary was made clear.

And my dear friends, every Christian home is to be a sanctuary.

And every new home that is established is to be anointed.

I'll study that more with you later in the evening.

But I'd like to have you think first of all this evening as the sanctuary of the home, as a dwelling place for God.

Is your home a place where God and angels dwell?

Are they at home with what goes on there?

The music, the reading, the TV and radio, all the rest, the conversation at the meal table?

Are the angels present and participating.

This is the high destiny, the holy calling, to every Christian home.

To accept anything less than that is to live far below our privileges.

Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

You remember last night we were talking about the veils.

The veils that stand at the entrance of the sanctuary and the entrance of the most holy place.

Those veils that stand there to indicate that somebody may enter but most people can't.

And we pointed out that while there are many experiences in which we may share and should share with many outside.

There is a love which belongs only to 1 man and 1 woman and within that inner shrine, at that inner shrine, That love is to be expressed.

There is a statement that I want to share with you from this new Morning Watch book that I'm sure many of you are enjoying this year in Heavenly Places.

We might spend some time in comment on this, but I think I shall just read it and leave it with you.

This is another example of the fact that there are experiences that belong to those 2 within the veil that do not belong outside.

Husbands and wives should feel it their privilege and duty to reserve for the privacy of each other's society the interchange of love tokens between themselves.

If even married people should reserve for the privacy of each other's society the interchange of love tokens between themselves, what about other people?

You see how different this is from the customs and fashions of the society in which we find ourselves.

But my dear friend, I read in this book of God, My thoughts are not your thoughts, saith the Lord, neither are your ways my way.

For as high as the heaven is above the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Read the whole page in Heavenly Places, page 207.

You remember that in the ancient sanctuary, the veils had in them, wrought in threads of gold and silver, figures of angels.

This represented, of course, the heavenly host who fill the glorious temple above.

I found in volume 5 a most beautiful statement that I must share with you on this subject.

Only where Christ reigns can there be deep, true, unselfish love.

Then soul will be knit with soul and the 2 lives will blend in harmony.

Angels of God will be guests in the home and their holy vigils will hallow the marriage chamber.

Upward to God will the thoughts be directed.

To Him will the heart's devotion is sent.

As angels look down from the ceiling in that earthly sanctuary as they were pictured in the veils.

So living angels are in that sanctuary above and living angels are to be in your home and mine.

And you will notice that they are pictured as keeping watch in the marriage chamber, hallowing the marriage chamber, debasing sensuality banished, they keep holy vigils.

Let me make very plain, for it is so easy for some wandering mind to misunderstand, There is nothing in what we are presenting from God's Word to take away the sanctity of the physical union in the marriage relation.

Quite the contrary, As husband and wife are joined in that intimate physical union, they are to have the presence of God and holy angels.

And this, my dear friend, is what God longs for every Christian home to represent.

In the union of husband and wife is to be represented the union of the soul with Christ.

Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they too shall be 1 flesh.

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ in the church.

We have quoted what we read last night from Ephesians, the fifth chapter.

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