DO YOU WANT A COVENANT of LOVE or THE DEMONIC STRONGHOLD of ROMANCE?
1 Peter 3:6-7
[6]Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
[7]Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as BEING HEIRS TOGETHER OF THE GRACE OF LIFE; that your prayers be not hindered.
HIDDEN TRUTH: THE DEMONIC STRONGHOLD OF ROMANCE
The service, affection and communication that spouses enjoy together in the order and course of life’s responsibilities is a pleasure and a blessing.
However, when that order is perverted, emotions are placed above responsibilities and “Romance” becomes a goddess of idolatry that demands worship and destroys godly covenant marriages.
Just like Roman Catholic Christianity is a Roman perversion of the New Covenant Way of Christ’s Disciples, Romantic Love is a perversion of the Covenant Love the Creator Designed for Marriage.
Many books have been written on where the idea of romance came from historically, and how the ideas of romance came after the split of the “Roman” empire, and were spread by French poets specifically for the purpose of adultery and rebellion…
But I’ll let the reader do their own historical research and I’ll focus on teaching this conceptually and spiritually.
This is easy to understand on the physical side, so we can use pornography as the first example.
If a husband was addicted to pornography, and therefore had a desire for abnormal types of sex, creating dissatisfaction and disappointment in an otherwise harmonious relationship, that would be proof that the husband needed deliverance from sin and healing in his soul.
Romance, a form of emotional adultery, is effectually the SAME as physical pornography.
A wife that has consumed romance books, romantic movies, fake relationship songwriting, and fake love music has created abnormal emotional desires, causing dissatisfaction in an otherwise harmonious relationship, revealing a need for deliverance and/or healing in the wife.
Sexuality in marriage is normal and good, but the Sexual Seduction of PORNOGRAPHY is a catalyst for sexual selfishness and PHYSICAL adultery.
Affection in marriage is normal and good, but the Emotional Seduction of ROMANCE is a catalyst for relational selfishness and EMOTIONAL adultery.
Pornography and Romance do not enhance covenant marriages, they are both forms of SEDUCTION. They are both IDOLS that destroy marriages by creating warped and bizarre physical and emotional expectations.
PROVISION SHOULD NOT INDUCE IDOLATRY BUT THANKFULNESS AND HONOUR
God provides resources for his people, but when we become covetous for excessive amounts of money, we become idolaters, i.e, spiritual adulterers.
Wives provide sex for husbands, but when husbands desire more and diverse sex than what they can get from their wife, they become physical adulterers.
Husbands provide affection for wives, but when a woman’s desire for emotional worship becomes more important than honoring and being thankful for the affection and service that her husband gives, she becomes an emotional adulterer.
If we want to have godly marriages and families, we should choose to be thankful for what God has provided us instead of falling for the Seductions of financial idolatry (covetousness), physical idolatry (pornography), or emotional idolatry (romance).
Honoring our life responsibilities, fulfilling our covenant responsibilities and enjoying life together should be a pleasure for a covenant husband and wife.
However, when the Idolatrous Goddess of Romance enters the relationship, she demands perverted emotional worship which brings in frustration and destruction to the covenant.
Godly couples need to stop serving the Goddess of Romance and return to being thankful for their covenant of faithfulness so they can enjoy being heirs together of the grace of life.
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