Perfect Parenting: A Threefold Cord

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A Threefold Cord Mothers Day, May 10th, 2026 Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Genesis 2:21–25 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. John 15:5 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. From the beginning of creation and before the fall of mankind, the man shall be joined to his wife and the two become ONE. One in body, one in spirit, one in personhood, ONE. All they do, they do best together as ONE. They are both different, both have qualities and natural characteristics that are different one from another, complementing or even completing each other.  There is also an order to the relationship, an order that when breached, cannot attain to its perfect purpose. Genesis 3:16 16 Unto the woman he said, …..; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. This is the ONLY aspect of the nature of the two that does not come naturally, and so the Lord God places it as a command to obey. Faithfulness in this leads to blessing, unfaithfulness is this leads to cursing the relationship. Ephesians 5:25 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Yet another command that may surprise many, is not retained naturally over the long term. Just as the respect from wives for their husbands need to be commanded, so too the sacrificial love of men for their own wives must be commanded. There is much here beloved, but it is safe to say that the wife is not a wife without the husband, nor the husband without the wife, the two are ONE. Genesis 2:23 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. “And they shall be one flesh“. “The man and his wife” “one“. God is ONE. and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. They were made in the image of God, man and woman are joined together to re-present God to the world.  The two are one. Together they represent the complete nature of God. God is ONE and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. This is the marriage covenant, a promise, a testament that has the man die to himself and live to his wife, that has the woman die to herself and live to her husband….”And they shall be one flesh“. Made in the image of God, God is ONE. Genesis 1:27 “27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.“ But this unity in person, the two becoming one, does not end at their wedding, to the contrary, it continues on; Genesis 1:28 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. “Be fruitful