Richard Hollerman

I suppose that we all know what a “wedding” is. It is when two people become one flesh and begin life together. In other words, two people are wed or married and they thereby have a “wedding.” It may be a simple affair, a large affair, a public affair, or a relatively private affair.

Today, of course, we don’t know whether the one married is really “one” or not with the other. The two people may have been married twice or three times or more and not merely once. And we don’t know if the ones married really recognize that the husband is to be the “head” in the marriage or if they have a “joint” venture.

God only recognizes two people who commit themselves to each other and are married in this way—for life. But since we are living in a crazy and egalitarian world, this may change. No longer, must we assume that the complementarian venture is what is happening for in many cases, we have egalitarian affairs.

The wedding that I was referring to had plenty of older songs and the performers were now gone (dead). This is the first item that should awaken our attention. The singers are mostly now gone. Surely, they are gone to Hades and after the judgment will go to Hell. Thus, although the wedding had some positives (perhaps) they also had many negatives.

Many of these pre-recorded songs were sung by performers—whether male or female (today we don’t really know!). They must have brought back memories of the past and better times (at least in the imagination). I suppose that at least some of these also were from the period associated with the experience. By this I mean that the song, while perhaps tame and welcome by today’s carnal standards, were still wrong. Of course, the singers were also wrong. They were worldly.

Of course, there would be the lyrics of these dated songs that were used in the Wedding. Were the words of the songs wholesome and good ones, or were they ones that were and are spiritual in nature? Would they have had a positive message and did they produce positive emotions—or carnal ones? What do you think? God was not in them and Jesus would not have been welcome in the whole experience?

We have not been referring to more recent weddings and the songs that would accompany them. Frankly, I don’t know about weddings of the past, nor ones of the present, especially present weddings. They are foreign to me. I prefer the more spiritual, the more godly, and the more “Christian” songs with more proper lyrics.

And so we must leave all of this with you. I don’t know if you are 18 or 28 or 70 or older, but God knows that He cares. He knows all about the elements of the wedding and anything that goes with it. And He will Judge accordingly.

(Sorry, but we could not find pictures that would be entirely appropriate–men and women singing, women with covered heads and obviously, males and females separated. So sorry and maybe in the future things will be different.)