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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

The God-Arranged and Blessed Marriage

Dan Augsburger

The God-Arranged Match

Let Her Be the One

Principles of the God-Blessed Marriage

It's been wonderful to be here with all of you.

From the feedback we're getting, it sounds like it's touched some of you pretty close to home.

This is a really important area, But I want to say strongly that God is a miracle worker, and he can do great things in any marriage, any situation.

So don't give up, but try to make good choices as much as you can.

And truly, just as victory is not a behavior, it's a person whose presence in my life changes my behavior.

I mean, victory is more than anything else.

The presence of Jesus in my life, it changes my outward behavior.

So a good marriage has to do with the presence of Jesus.

And we're going to talk about it together.

She does extremely well most of the time.

And Rose, why don't you have the opening prayer for us?

I know Josie asked me, but why don't you?

Heavenly Father, thank you so much that we can be here.

We just really want you to do your work among us today.

And so I just ask that you would lead and bless.

And Lord, sometimes the speakers may be sharing something, but you have your own sermon for the heart.

And so I pray that that's what will ultimately take place.

Thank you, by the way, for what you've shared with us.

You've given us taking care of in terms of arrangement.

It's been a blessing for which we are most grateful.

You take good care of people, so whoever makes it possible, please accept our sincere gratitude.

Anyway, the fact that we're here this weekend is a bit of a miracle.

I was supposed to come here a few weeks ago.

And on our way home from actually having been down at 3 ABN pumping gas, I kind of decided to stay out of snow and did a head plunge and landed on my wrist.

And I thought both of my wrists were broken.

And that evening, Josie says, would you consider coming later?

And I'd already been thinking about traveling with suitcases and a little 1 with splints on my arms.

And I'm glad that we have a God that actually, you know, it says, before they call, they will answer while they're yet speaking out here.

And we've been talking about relationships.

And so we want to talk, first of all, about the realities of coming into marriage.

But before we do, Rose, I'm going to share a story about the Coyerth if I can.

Also, let me just make a mention, I have a website, DiscipleHeart.com, it has more than 800 pages of resources.

There's a section on the Christian family, and you'll find articles on raising children, Christian marriages, seeking a partnership, those kinds of things.

Most people do not know that actually in the later years of Ellen White's life, she was going all over Southern California and Northern California, giving sermons on 2 subjects.

1 was how to abide in Christ, and the other was how to raise your children for Christ.

And she actually wrote some and said, or said in 1 speech, she said, I would not be at my age, which would have been 81 then, If you knew how to take care of your children, the Lord said I was to come and teach you.

They were published in 1911, the great controversy in Acts of the Apostle, and because of that most of those sermons are in the unpublished manuscripts, Very available, very available, but there is a wealth of information on how to raise children that really deserves to be better known.

But there's lots of information there that you'll find exceedingly helpful.

On the bottom of the booklets, we've run out of booklets.

You can download, by the way, everything I've shared for free off the website.

We have 1 page, welcome, where there's more than 30 study guides on different subjects that can be downloaded for free.

Another page is just a link of resources within the Adventist Church.

Did you know that you can download more than 4, 000 complete issues of the Youth Instructor and more than 7, 000 issues of the Review and Herald and more than 5, 000 or 6, 000 of Signs of the Times, and all the medical evangelists.

And someone's uploaded on the internet 400 issues of the Junior Guide from 1950-something to 1970.

And on that page, I try to let people know where there are free books and resources.

For parents, and I'll just say this a little longer, and then I'll change.

How many of you have used the materials of My Bible first?

It's absolutely a marvelous, marvelous resource.

It's put together by actually a physician and his wife originally.

And they just put on an evangelistic series.

And she's memorized the books of the Bible she's learned to sing songs from that podcast yes sir my Bible first wonderful resource wonderful wonderful but anyway we came to talk about resources So I'd like to share a story with you of a couple by the name of François and Christine Colliere.

They were missionaries in South Africa, but it's a telling story.

When François, Francis, reached Larrabee, Africa in 1859, he was unmarried.

Not because he wanted to be unmarried, but because that's how things had worked out.

He wanted a wife quite badly, he felt he would need a companion, but he had such a respect for women and such a respect for the work of God in that regard, that he was unwilling to marry merely for the sake of comfort and companionship.

He wanted a wife from the Lord and was willing to wait until God sent him away.

Now he was going to go far away, way off to South Africa.

Before he left, he was invited to the home of a lady by the name of Madame André Walter, a place where many spiritual young people and missionaries came together.

And there he met a lady by the name of Christina McIntosh.

And from the moment he saw her, he knew that she was the 1.

But because he was to sail and he hadn't had really time to pray about it, and wasn't sure that this was an emotional impulse, he left for South Africa, believing she was the 1, but believing that he didn't have the right to say anything to her yet.

How many of you would be sailing off that many hours away in the 1860s when you think you just left the 1 God has chosen?

So he went, and he prayed about and prayed about, and Eventually he wrote back and made a proposal.

And they said, why bury your talents in Africa?

And she liked this more civilized world anyway.

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