Two types of differences:
- Bad differences = changeable
- God differences = unchangeable
1. Bad Differences
Genesis 2:24,25 (NKJV)
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
The Four Laws of Marriage:
1. Priority
2. Pursuit
3. Partnership
4. Purity
2. God Differences
Major needs:
Men
- Respect
- Sex
- Friendship
- Domestic support
Women
- Security
- Open & honest communication
- Soft, non-sexual affection
- Leadership
Mark 10:42-45 (NKJV)
But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Luke 12:35-40 (NKJV)
Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Four Money Languages:
1. Driver
2. Amiable
3. Analytic
4. Expressive
Four Money Languages communicate love differently:
1. Driver – by Showing
2. Amiable – by Sharing
3. Analytic – by Saving
4. Expressive – by Spending/Shopping
Genesis 2:18 (NKJV)
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”