July 18, 2015
Christ Binds You Together!
I have before you two today a cord.
It’s not just any cord, it is a special kind of cord used to connect an
MP3 player, phone, computer or any kind of electronic device to our sound
system. It may seem strange to have this
in front of us today as we celebrate your wedding, but you two are technologically
savvy and this cord is a great metaphor for us to consider today.
You know we connected with each other and did all of our pre-marital
counseling via computers. We were
connected via the electrons, we could see each other, but this cord is more
tangible, it carries electrons.
Technology is great, but there is a better and greater connection you
two have and are affirming here this afternoon gathered with your family and
friends and especially in the sight of God.
John in his epistle which I read earlier, inspires each of us with these
words, “love one another, for love is from God”. How true this is, but God’s love for all of
mankind and for you two here in God’s house declaring Your love is manifest for
all of mankind simply in His Son Jesus Christ.
You see the love God has for all of mankind is clearly demonstrated by
Jesus Christ. John wrote, “By
this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten
Son, Jesus Christ, into the world so that we might live through Him.” We live and love through Jesus Christ and
this is the essence and real meaning of Jesus Christ life and what He did. Jesus Christ clearly demonstrated His love
for us on the Cross of Calvary.
But you two Mikail and Katera have a clearer and more profound
connection with God’s love. Just as this
cord connects an iPhone or CD player to the sound system and we were connected
by the information super highway to complete the pre-marital counseling, God is
connected to mankind, but especially and intimately connected to you two
today. God is connected by the fact and
reality that God binds you two together in Holy Matrimony.
Remember when we were together, I described the binding nature of God in
Jesus Christ as the third person in this relationship. How in a few minutes you will join your hands
together in front of your family and friends as you kneel before the Altar of
God. Then I using the symbol of my
office, the stole, will bind your hands together and this the binding of your
hands with the stole will represent Jesus Christ binding you two together.
Alone as husband and wife you encounter a world that will try and break
you two apart, whether it is your own independent streaks, your feeling that
you can handle the waves of the world, with job, family or individual
situations or circumstances, but these storms of life will break you
apart. But if you put on Christ and
continue to be connected to each other and Him.
And remember you are bound by Christ in Holy Matrimony. And remember in your being bound to each
other and united by Christ, nothing will be able to separate you from God. God through His Son Jesus Christ will
demonstrate what true love is. God will remind
you of His love for you and bind you two together as husband and wife united,
not as two, but the three, Mikail to Katera and Christ encircling both of you
in the palms of His hands.
For it is Jesus Christ binding you together, connecting you together and
being shared with one another that His love will radiate from you and your
marriage as a clear demonstration of God and the truth that God is love. Because John concluded our reading with the truth
when he said, “if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in
us.” John’s words are my prayer
for you. I pray that you remain
connected to one another, better than this cord for the sound system, but that the
binding of Jesus Christ may remind each of you of His love for you and His
binding of you two together, perfected in Jesus Christ binding the three of you
together as husband and wife in His perfect love. AMEN.
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