Subtitled “Marriage in Paradise: Before the Fall,” this sermon looks back to Genesis 1-2 to recover marriage as God first designed it – part of His mandate for humanity, made in His image, to be fruitful and multiply and to steward the earth together. Before sin entered the world, marriage was already central to how God intended His image to be displayed and His purposes carried out.
The message uses this original design as the standard for understanding marriage today, showing that the union of husband and wife was never an afterthought but part of the very structure of creation. Recovering this vision, the sermon argues, helps couples see their marriage as participating in God’s larger purposes rather than merely a private arrangement.