Marriage: Responsibilities of the Bride

By Mark Weiss

Responsibilities of the Bride

2 Peter 3:9-18

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Genesis 2: 18

Help meet: H5828 – ezer (ay-zer)

From H5826 – azar (aw-zar)

To help, succour, support: a primitive root – to surround

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Succor (succour) – something that you do or give to help someone who is suffering or in a

difficult situation (ie: relief, aid help). Something that furnishes relief.

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Support:

1) to agree with or approve of (someone or something else)

2) to show that you approve of (someone or something else) by doing something.

3) to give help or assistance to (someone or somethin else) 4) to endure

5) to promote the interests of or cause of. To uphold or defend as valid or right.

6) to provide with sustantiation (support an alibi)

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7) to pay the costs of/maintain

8) to provide basis for existence or subsistence of

9) to hold up or serve as a foundation 10) to maintain (a price) at a desired level by

purchases or loans 11) to keep from fainting, yielding, losing

courage (comfort) 12) to keep (something) going

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Synonyms to support:

Brace, Buttress, Mount, Mounting, Prop, Reinforcement, Show, Stay, Underpinning, Advocate, Back, Champion, Endorse, Patronize, Go in for, Go to bat for, Hold a brief for, Stand up for, Stick up for, Foot the bill for, Take care of

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Also: Extending support to something being attacked, supporting by lending assistance to one failing or falling, publicly defending one

unjustly attacked or too weak to advocate his own cause.

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Genesis 2:21-24

The Man and the Woman become one flesh

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Ephesians 5:31

Matthew 19:5

Mark 10:7

Leave father and mother and create their own identity.

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Man and Woman are a team working together as one unit

Man and Woman are working together toward the same goals

Man and Woman are ONE

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John 15:13

G3762 – oudeis (oo dice): no one (not just a man, but anyone – including a female).

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Let’s go to the betrothel:

John 14:1-3

The Groom is away preparing a home for the future couple.

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John 14:16

But the Groom leaves a present for the Bride to be: The Holy Spirit – a comforter.

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What is the Bride to be doing?

1 Timothy 2:8-12

G2271 (Hesuchia) – hay soo khee ah – quietness, description of life of one who stays at

home doing his own work and does not officiously meddle with the affairs of others

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Officiously: volunteering one’s services where they are neither asked for nor needed. Example: an officious little man was always telling everyone else how to do their jobs Synonym: busy, interfering, intruding, meddlesome, nosey, obtrusive, intrusive, presuming, protrusive, prying, pushing, pushy, snoopy. Garden of Peace by Rabbi Shalom Arush (translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody)

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1 Peter 3:1-8

1) Obedience to the Word: John 1:1

2) Outward Adorning: not a building that is physically grand.

Genesis 12:11,14

Genesis 24:16

Esther2:7

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VS 5 - G2885 – (adorned) Kosmeo – to put in order, arrange, make ready, prepare (herself)

VS 7 – it is a voyage, not a destination? It is both a voyage and a destination – together!

VS 8 – Be of one mind

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Philippians 2:5

Philippians 3:15

The Bride is to be keeping to herself, busily preparing herself for the wedding (wedding

garments,etc.)

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During the Wedding: The Bride circles the Groom seven times. What does this mean? Not destruction like the walls of Jericho, but to show defense. Guarding and protecting the things that the Groom stands for: His name, His ideas, His Laws, His Calender/Schedule/Events, Anything else that He might stand for!

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How can the bride defend/guard the groom?

By not going out to all the world (preaching), but by staying close/near the groom: studying the Word and keeping it close.

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Recap of what we have talked about so far:

Commitment

Service

Guarding

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Proverbs 31:10-31

With a virtuous woman:

1)Her husband is in need of nothing

2) She works hard to be dressed correctly (what the saints wear)

3) She takes care of the house/home

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With a Virtuous Woman:

4) Fruit spring forth from her handiwork

5) Her light shines all the time

6) She takes care of the needy

7) She raises her children to be clothed as the saints

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With a Virtuous Woman:

8) Out of her mouth flows the Torah/Word of God – So Husband: Listen to HER!

9) Her every effort is to do Godly good in all things

10) She Fears the Lord

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Conclusion: Revelation 19:1-13

Bride: given fine linen – clean and white picturing the righteousness of the saints

Groom: crowned with many crowns and his name is called The Word of God

References

King James Bible

ISV Bible

ESV

Garden of Peace by Rabbi Shalom Arush (translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody)

Hebrew Lexicon

Strong’s Concordance

Webster’s Dictionary