DEATH IN THE POT (DEATH in our homes, marriages and relationships today)

By Pastor Richard Minet

DEATH IN THE POT?
(Wild Olives in the Pot of Marriage)

Overview:

• Compromise of Faith and Philosophy
• DEATH in our homes, marriages and relationships today.
• Terrible practices or doctrines in the church today (DATING IDEOLOGY, DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE).
• Cure to the death in our marital pot

2Kgs. 4:38-41.
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.


All Satan needs to destroy Gods work is just a little mix up. Heresy is not only a belief that rejects the tenets of our core faith but also any philosophy or opinion that is at variance with it. In brief, it is simply a departure from the acceptable (scriptural) norms. Hence, any time truth is misrepresented, misinterpreted or suggested beyond it's boundary, it becomes heresy.

There's so much DEATH in our homes (marriages) and relationships today, this is due to certain terrible mix ups and additions that we have sheepishly admitted into the faith. Very much like the sons of the prophets with Elisha, the WILD VINES that we have gathered with our hands, rather than nourish us, are actually stifling the life out of us, causing death in our relationships and our marriages. 2Kgs. 4:38-41.


There are so many terrible practices or doctrines in the church today, the world has made a success of smuggling several heresies (wild vines) into the church in the name of marriage, such as THE DATING IDEOLOGY, DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE, trying to build our homes on the world's ROMANTIC MARRIAGE ILLUSION, etc.

While some of these practices or beliefs seem good, harmless and rationale, the truth is, they cannot withstand the challenges of daily marital affair. Most of these practices if we are sincere, rather than help us, our so called titanic and endless love stories today, has done more harm to us than good. Don't you get it, nothing else can work for the church besides what God ordains. Strangely, how can these practices that couldn't work for those who propounded it, now work for us?

But does the church have a manual for relationship and marriage or not? Yes it does. Again, are we patterning our relationships and marriages in accordance? No we are not. And why? Because the WILD OLIVES not only look better, they seem more popular, widely acceptable, smatter, more user friendly and more pleasurable to practice, except that it offers a promise that it cannot deliver.

Take the dating ideology for instance, it seems like a very smart practice, at least getting to know someone before you commit yourself and eventually make a mistake you can't correct for life. It seem more romantic, self gratifying and much easier to practice than the fasting and praying art to first hear the Holy Spirit just to tell if a person is the one or not, something anyone can easily tell by dating.

But as smart as the dating ideology seems, how many of those who dated got it right, if it is a smatter way, why are most relationships and marriages built on the dating ideology failing? Sadly God's way though surer, always seem crude, for instance, doctrines like first telling my Pastor I've seen someone I like before proposing, why should I do that when I'm not dumb, it feels better to finish the job and then tell later.

We must not fail to teach and enforce truth, this failure has opened the church today to several demonic practices that are killing marriages such as; a man insisting that his lady must be pregnant to ascertain her fertility before marriage and sadly, some of our churches go ahead and conduct a wedding with pregnancy. Husband and wife using a blue movie to learn or boost their sex life is against our doctrine, having sex before marriage to know if you are sexually compatible or if you have what it takes to match or satisfy each other or cohabiting before marriage, going to a man's house alone to cook, clean, wash, etc, to prove you are homely are clearly not our doctrine.

Some of these things that we think will help marriage are the very things causing death and the only cure is to CAST MEAL back into the pot. The cure for heresy is TRUTH, returning back to God's WORD, WAY and ORDER, whether it looks or feels good or not.

Trying to build or make your marriage or relationship work on the romantic theory concept, I.e. tell her "I love you" 7 times a day, write a love note and put it under his pillow, etc, are all good and should be encouraged, just that they are nothing but vanity in the time of swing mood or when the evil day arises. On such a day, all your selfie (pictures) you snapped to use to portray romance, all your beauty, pedicure and manicure will not cure the death facing your marriage then but the word of God, the way of God, the fruit of the spirit; love, joy, peace, patience, meekness, temperance, forgiveness, etc, which you now so neglect, despise and consider crude, at the last will be the only saving grace for your home.

Open your eyes, stop investing and expending yourself on these ideologies, I.e. good sex, romance, shopping, cinema, good food, nice pictures, etc, are good but must not be gathered along or used in replacing the true meal, fasting, praying, listening, learning, following, reading healthy books on marriage, attending marriage counseling seminars, having devotional together, searching from God's word daily the doctrines of marriage, these are the only MEAL that can cure the death in our marital pot, anything short will be brewing death in our pot.

ACTION POINT:
1. Give 3 reasons why you think God's way is better than some of our romantic ideologies.
2. Tell us why even though we know God's way is the better way, yet we somehow end up patterning our relationships after our own ideologies.

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I charge you to review your ideologies today, take a bold step to help revive dead marriages, so as to put an end to this marital death. Help spread the word by sharing this post..

Thanks and God bless you!