Jesus Enterprise Officiating Marriages
Government Issues a marriage as seen through the eyes of the Government is a CIVIL  CONTRACT between two persons. The Government issues a  marriage license granting to a couple permission to enter in this  contract, of which the Government is also a Party of that contract.

In doing so, the Government has enacted certain laws and  requirements governing marriage contracts. Further the Government  decides who is qualified and authorized to represent the Government  in administering these contracts.

In many if not most governmental jurisdictions Judges, Justice of the  Peace, and Clergy are authorized to officiate or solemnize marriage  contracts on behalf of the government as outlined by the laws of the  jurisdiction where the marriage is to take place. To officiate a  marriage members of the Clergy must register with and be authorized  by the State to solemnize a marriage. This also requires that you to  know and follow the laws enacted in the jurisdiction where the  marriage is to be performed. The State for the most part, grants permission to members of the  Clergy to act on behalf, as a recognized representative of the State to  administer this civil contract we call marriage.

Most states require members of the Clergy to register their  professional credentials with either the Clerk of Probate or District  Court, however this may vary from state to state, and be well aware  that each state may enact varying laws governing the civil contract of  marriage. This is vitally important for the Clergy to KNOW! The  laws regarding marriage will vary from state to state and you are  personally liable to know these laws to legally administer the state  marriage contract. After approving individual ministers to act on  behalf of the government they most likely will issue some kind of a  certificate that grants you permission to conduct a marriage on  behalf of the state. I highly encourage Ministers who officiate numerous marriages to  carry an Insurance Liability Policy! Additionally Ministers are  encouraged to keep a journal of the marriages they officiate and  keep a file copy of the signed marriage license. Before performing the marriage; - Secure from the couple a legal and valid marriage license MAKE  SURE IT'S NOT EXPIRED! - Have the required number of witnesses (excluding Officiate and the  Married couple) to sign the document. - Do NOT let the marriage license leave your hands! Do not  solemnize a marriage without having possession of the marriage  license first! - After the marriage ceremony, make sure everything is filled out  correctly, and that the required witnesses have signed the document. - Return the marriage license to the correct governmental agency,  within the specified time limit. What we have learned so far: 1.) in the eyes of the Government, Marriages are a CIVIL  CONTRACT. 2.) The Government who is an interested party of a marriage and  therefore grants clergy permission to solemnize civil marriage  contracts. 3.) The Government qualifies who is authorized administer Marriage  (Civil Contracts) on behalf of the Government. 4.) Before performing a marriage you must FIRST be authorized by  the government. 5.) Marriage officiates are solely and legally responsible for their  actions in administering marriage contracts. 6.) Marriage officiates are representing the state, and are liable for  their actions, or omissions. 7.) Most states require the Marriage Officiate to register with either  the Clerk or Probate or District Court. 8.) Failing to follow the law could land a member of the clergy in  deep legal trouble. 9.) Marriage officiates should carry Personal Liability Insurance  policy. 10.) Before Solemnizing a Marriage Contract secure the legal and  valid Marriage License. 11.) Make sure there are the required number of witnesses to sign the  Marriage License. 12.) Sign and return the Marriage License to the appropriate issuing  agency within the specified time limit. 13.) Keep an Officiate Journal, and photocopies of the marriage  license on file. The United Christian Faith Ministries ISSUE'S The United Christian Faith Ministries (UCFM) authorizes those  Christian Ministers who have been ordained of the UCFM and are in  good standing to perform Marriages, acting independently as  Ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ, as long as the minister follows all  the required laws governing marriages as issued by the governing  jurisdiction where the marriage is to take place. - The UCFM is not responsible for any unauthorized or other illegal  acts, whether they are intentional or otherwise, and is to be held  harmless from the administration of marriage contracts.

- Furthermore the UCFM does not authorize UCFM ordained  Ministers to Solemnize Same Sex Marriages. Please not ask Rev. Keith Ratliff to do a Same Sex Marriages he  will  not do them. What does the Bible say about gay marriage  same sex  marriage? We look at gay marriage / same sex marriage, first we have  to remember what the Bible says about homosexuality. The Bible  clearly and consistently tells us that homosexual activity is a sin  (Genesis 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians  6:9). God does not create a person with homosexual desires. A  person becomes a homosexual because of sin (Romans 1:24-27), and  ultimately because of his or her own choice. A person may be born  with a greater susceptibility to homosexuality, just as people are born  with a tendency to violence and other sins. That does not excuse the  person choosing to sin by giving into their sinful desires. If a person  is born with a greater susceptibility to anger / rage, does that make it  right for them to give into those desires? Of course not! The same is  true for homosexuality. The Bible nowhere directly mentions bisexuality. However, it is clear  from the Bible's denunciations of homosexuality that bisexuality  would also be considered sinful. Leviticus 18:22 describes a person  having sexual relations with the same sex as an abomination.  Romans 1:26-27 condemns sexual relations between the same sex as  abandoning what is natural. 1 Corinthians 6:9 states that homosexual  offenders will not inherit the kingdom of God. These truths apply as  equally to bisexuals as they do to homosexuals.

Matthew 25:1-13

Virginity

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. Deuteronomy 22:13-21

Nudity/Nakedness

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon Exodus 20:26

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 18:5, 7, 9

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbours drink, that put test thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou makest look on their nakedness! Habakkuk 2:15

If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? James 2:15, 16

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:25

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. Genesis 3:7

And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? 1 Samuel 19:24

And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria. 2 Chronicles 28:15

At the same time spake by Isaiah the son of Amos, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. And said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. Isaiah 20:2-4

For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Matthew 25:35, 36 (25:37, 38, 42-45)

And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. Mark 14:51, 52

Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea. John 21:7

And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded Acts 19:16

Related verses: Genesis 3:10-11, 9:22,23, Exodus 28:42, 32:25, Deuteronomy 28:48, 2 Chronicles 28:19, Job 1:21, 22:6, 24:7,10, 26:6, Ecclesiastes 5:15, Isaiah 47:3, 58:7, Amos 2:16, Micah 1:8,11, Romans 8:35, 1 Corinthians 4:11, 2 Corinthians 5:3, 11:27, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 3:17,18, 16:15, 17:16

Breakers of the Seventh Commandment

Genesis 19:32-35, 35:22, 39:7, 12, 1 Samuel 2:22, 2 Samuel 11:4, 2 Chronicles 21:11, Jeremiah 29:23, Ezekiel 22:10, 11, Mark 6:17, 18, Luke 3:19, Romans 1:29, 1 Corinthians 5:1, Jude 1:7

Curses of Breaking the Seventh Commandment

Cursed be he that liveth with his father's wife; because he uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he that liveth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he that liveth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he that liveth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. Deuteronomy 27:20-23

For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger For the ways of man are before the eyes of, and he pondered all his goings. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be Holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. Proverbs 5:3-23

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. Proverbs 6:24-35

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Hebrews 13:4

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