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Year

Marriages
Divorces

1900

12.7

1940

1990

2000

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You shall love

your neighbor
as yourself.
Matthew 22:39

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The 3:6 Principle

See Acts 3:6
I can only give what I
have

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Forgetting those things

which are behind and
reaching forward to those
things which are ahead, I
press toward the goal
Philippians 3:13,14

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I will praise You for

I am fearfully and
wonderfully made
Psalm 139:14

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Tell me, what

do you have in
the house?
2 Kings 4:2

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I can do all things

through Christ
who strengthens
me.
Philippians 4:13

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Yes, I have
loved you with
an everlasting
love
Jeremiah 31:3

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You shall love

your neighbor as
yourself.
Matthew 22:39

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And who is my neighbor?

Luke 10:29,36,37

Far Away
Neighbor!

Next Door
Neighbor

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So husbands ought to
love their own wives as
their own bodies; he who
loves his wife loves
himself.
Ephesians 5:28

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We then who
are strong ought
to bear with the
scruples of the
weak, and
not to please
ourselves.
Romans 15:1

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For even Christ did not please

Himself
(Romans. 15: 3)

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If my spouse
is my first
neighbor,
my child is
my second
neighbor!

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While my
spouse is my
second self,
my child is my
third self!
Bone of my
bone and flesh
of my flesh!

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The Lords Prayer

illustrates our
love relationship.
I say to God:
My Father.
My child says to me:
My father.
My child says to God:
My Father.
Therefore my child and I
are brothers and sisters!

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God advises:
Fathers, do not
provoke your children,
lest they become
discouraged.
Colossians 3:21

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You shall love the

Lord your God with all
your heart, with all
your soul, and with all
your mind.
Matthew 22:37

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In the
beginning
God Created
Our World

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Size of our Milky Way Galaxy is

100,000 light years!
Speed of light is
186,282 miles per second!
186,282x60x60x24x365 =
5,874 billion miles a year!
So, 100,000 light years is
587,458,000,000,000,000 miles!
Thats only one galaxy!
And there are millions of galaxies!

There is a God in heaven!

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Then God Made

Marriage

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Since God manufactured marriage,

He knows about its maintenance!

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If you invite Christ

into your home,
Hell turn your
Water into wine!
Challenges into
victories!
Sadness into
gladness!

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1. Love myself.
2. Love my spouse
better than
myself.
3. Love my child
as part of myself
4. Love God best
of all.

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Four Big Secrets of a Happy Family

The Happy Family

Happy the home
when God is there,
And love fills
every breast;
When one their wish
and one their prayer,
And one their
heavenly rest.
Henry Ware

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All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken

from the NEW KING JAMES VERSION. Copyright 1982 by
Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations designated by NIV are taken from the HOLY

BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright 1973,
1978,1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of
Zondervan Bible Publishers.

GRATITUDE

Happy Family Bible Seminars has

been created for the glory of God,
through the grace of Christ, by
inspiration of the Holy Spirit

Authors:
Gordon & Waveney Martinborough
Producer:
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Designers:
Jos Rojano, Alex Camacho
Enrique Urquijo & Federico Jay Davis
Copyright 2004 by Gordon & Waveney
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General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists.