REMEDIES FOR THE DETERIORATING FAMILY

INTRO:  Col. 3:16-21
1. Tendencies working to destroy home as God would have it.
2. What can be done to fortify against the decline of the home?

I.  ACKNOWLEDGE GOD AS ORIGINATOR & DIRECTOR OF HOME - Gen. 2:18-  24;      Deut. 6:7-9
    A. Marriage looked upon today as purely human arrangement
    B. God's law to govern the home - Gen. 39:9; Psa. 51:4; Lk. 15:21; Eph. 6:1;   Heb.            13:4


II. HAVE DEEP-SEATED RESPECT FOR SACRED VOWS - Num. 30:2; Deut. 23:21;            Eccl. 5:4-7
    A. Marriage vows made to God:  "to love & honor"...."for better or worse"... "till   death         to us part"


III. RECOGNIZE SOLIDARITY AND PERMANENCY OF MARRIAGE - Matt. 19:1-9


IV. OBSERVE TRAGIC AND DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES OF DIVORCE - Mal.             2:14-15; Matt. 5:32


V. MANIFEST RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD ALL IN THE HOME - Eph. 4:32 - 5:2;  5:22-       33; 6:1-4; Titus 2:4ff.

        [Main points of this sermon were taken from a sermon preached by Granville Tyler            in Tigrett, TN]