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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Good Grace Marriages (Part A) | April 22, 2026
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- From the pulpit
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- Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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- This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i am robert jeffress
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- God holds his children to a higher standard
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- Than the rest of the world,
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- But sadly, too many christians behave
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- Just like their non-christian neighbors,
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- Especially when it comes to marriage.
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- Today i'm going to share with you three misconceptions
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- About marriage that stem from a misunderstanding of grace.
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- My message is titled,
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- Good grace marriages,
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- Some christians use grace
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- As a spiritual get out of jail free card.
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- Others pile on so many rules,
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- They have no grace for themselves or others.
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- In "grace gone wild" dr. robert jeffress shows you
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- What biblical grace actually looks like
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- And how practicing it leads to true freedom and lasting joy.
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- Discover how grace can transform your marriage,
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- Your relationships, and your walk with god.
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- Request "grace gone wild"
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- To "pathway to victory."
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- For the past 50 years,
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- Biblical teaching about marriage and the family
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- Has occupied more print space,
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- More radio and television airtime
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- Than perhaps any doctrine in the christian faith.
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- And while i'm certainly as a husband, father, grandfather,
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- Grateful for any help i can get
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- On how to have a more blessed family,
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- I do question how much good
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- All of this information has done.
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- I mean, especially when you look at the statistics,
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- Some of the statistics i've seen recently suggest
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- That those who claim
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- To be born again christians actually divorce more frequently
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- Than unbelievers.
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- And when you delve down into the figure
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- At the top of the list of born again christians
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- Who tend to divorce the most often it's those who identify
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- As fundamentalist christians.
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- There's something fundamentally wrong about that,
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- Don't you think?
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- I mean people who say they believe the truth of god's word
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- And yet ignore it without any thought whatsoever,
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- How do you explain that?
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- Why do christians so wantingly
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- And blatantly violate god's teachings about marriage?
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- Two words, bad grace.
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- Christians have taken the doctrine
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- Of grace and perverted it, especially in the area
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- Of marriage and the family.
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- A lot of christians tend to take
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- The biblical commands about the family.
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- Well, kind of like they do the instructions
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- In their owner's manual
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- About how to operate their automobile.
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- They think, you know, it's kind of like a suggestion.
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- We tend to take instructions about marriage the same way.
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- We say, oh yeah, in an ideal situation,
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- Christians should only marry christians.
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- You shouldn't have an affair, you shouldn't get divorced.
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- But you know, if you do those things, no lasting damage,
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- Grace is like god's magic wand.
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- He can wave over all of those acts of disobedience
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- And that magic wand will call all consequences,
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- All the hurt and emotional pain
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- Of spiritually mixed marriages,
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- Sexual immorality, divorce to disappear instantly
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- And everything will be perfect again.
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- That's what you call bad grace.
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- Good grace recognizes that while every violation
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- Of god's commands, even in the area of marriage,
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- While those violations are forgivable,
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- They still have consequences to them.
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- And nowhere in scripture do you see the relationship
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- Between obedience to god's commands
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- And god's blessing,
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- That in the passage we just read a few moments ago
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- From deuteronomy 11:26-28.
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- Remember the children of israel
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- Were standing on the precipice of entering
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- Into the promised land,
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- And moses warned them about a choice they needed to make.
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- He said, "see, i'm setting before you today a blessing
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- And a curse.
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- The blessing if you listen to the commandments
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- Of the lord your god, which i'm commanding you today,
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- And the curse if you do not listen to the commandments
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- Of the lord your god,
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- But you turn aside from the way
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- That i'm commanding you today."
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- It's very simple,
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- If you obey, you experience god's blessing.
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- If you disobey, you experience god's curses.
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- And know where is that corollary between obedience
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- And blessing seen more clearly
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- Than when it comes to the family.
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- Today and next time, this is such an important topic.
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- I'm going to devote two weeks to it.
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- Today and next week we're going to expose
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- The three lies about marriage that bad grace promotes.
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- There are lies about the formation,
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- About fidelity
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- And about the finality of marriage.
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- Today we're going to look at the first two
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- Of those three lies.
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- Lie number one has to do with the formation of a marriage.
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- And line number one says,
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- Grace means i can marry whomever i want.
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- Grace means i can marry whomever want.
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- Whenever i'm invited to speak to high school students
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- Or college students,
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- I don't even have to pray about the topic
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- I'm going to talk about.
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- I know exactly what they want to hear about.
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- How do you find a mate?
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- I mean the greatest fear among single people
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- Is that they will remain single and won't find a mate
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- Or find the right mate.
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- So i like to talk about that topic
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- And expand it to a broader topic
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- Of how to discover god's will for your life.
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- But when i talk about finding a mate,
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- I always go back to genesis 24.
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- You remember the story,
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- Abraham was advanced in age.
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- God had promised to make him the father of a great nation.
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- He had said the promise would go through his son isaac.
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- The only problem was, you know, isaac was still at home.
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- He didn't have a bride yet.
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- So abraham said, look, time is getting short.
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- We need to find a wife for isaac.
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- So he send his servant eliezer back in deccan
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- And to find a wife for isaac.
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- And i always explain to teenagers
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- That in those days in the middle eastern custom,
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- Parents were the ones
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- Who chose your marriage partner for you,
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- It was an arranged marriage.
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- And you can hear the collected, ew, you've got to be kidding.
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- They'd rather remain single
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- Than have their parents pick out their maid for them.
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- Of course today we don't do that.
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- But you know, you still wonder,
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- Could things be any worse
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- If we had parents still picking out mates
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- For their children?
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- We're not doing so well
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- When we allow people to pick their own.
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- But that's another sermon for another topic.
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- And this day, eliezer, the servant,
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- Went to pick the bride for isaac.
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- And abraham gave him some instructions
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- About the kind of wife that he needed to look for.
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- There were boundaries about the person that could be chosen.
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- It wasn't anybody eliezer chose,
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- There were some requirements.
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- And the same thing is true today.
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- Good grace understands that we have to follow god's commands
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- About whom to marry.
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- And specifically god gives two boundaries
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- About the formation of a marriage,
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- The selection of a marriage partner.
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- Write these down.
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- Number one, good grace recognizes
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- That marriage must be with a member
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- Of the opposite sex.
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- First requirement,
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- They have to be a member of the opposite sex.
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- Now you may be thinking what my teenage girls used to say
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- When they were at home,
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- Thank you captain obvious.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- You know, such a statement wouldn't have even needed
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- To be of made several years ago.
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- But now would the preponderance of same sex marriage
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- And the ruling in 2015 by the supreme court,
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- That's expanded the definition of marriage
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- To include homosexual marriage, we need to say that.
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- We need to say clearly.
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- Look, the supreme court is the highest court in the land,
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- But there is a court that is higher than the supreme court,
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- It's the court of all heaven.
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- And the judge of all the universe said, i beg to differ.
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- No, marriage is not whatever you want it to be.
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- Marriage is between a man and a woman.
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- And the reason god can say that is god is the one
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- Who designed marriage, it was his idea.
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- When you say pastor, where do you find that?
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- Where do you find that in the bible?
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- God never condemned homosexual marriages.
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- Oh, yes he did.
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- Jesus did.
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- Have you ever heard jesus never talked about homosexuality?
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- Of course he did.
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- Turn over to matthew 19.
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- Matthew 19.
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- Now we're going to look at matthew 19 in more depth next week
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- When we discuss the issue of divorce.
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- 'cause everything you've ever wanted to know
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- About divorce and remarriage is found in matthew 19.
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- The pharisees were trying to trick jesus like they did.
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- So they got involved in a controversial topic
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- Which happened to be divorced,
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- And they said, jesus, is it lawful for a man to divorce
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- His wife for any reason at all as moses taught?
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- Well, moses didn't teach that, but that's another story.
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- But jesus said, hey, everything you want to know about divorce
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- Is answered when you go back
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- To god's original plan for marriage.
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- Look at verse four.
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- "and he answered the pharisees and said,
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- Have you not read that he who created them
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- From the beginning made them male and female."
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- Now i want to stop there
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- And again point out something
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- That should be obvious to everybody.
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- There is not one sex, one gender, there are two.
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- And god is the one who created genders.
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- God is the one who made people male or female.
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- You don't get to choose your gender.
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- God has chosen it for you.
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- Isn't it interesting
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- That these people who go around talking about,
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- Oh, we need to be people of science,
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- We need to be people of science.
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- Deny the most basic scientific proof of all,
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- Our gender is not a matter of our choice,
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- It's a matter of chromosomes,
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- It's a matter of science.
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- You're either male or female
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- And god is the one who determines that.
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- And yet today, in the gender fluidity culture,
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- We're told, well, you can't impose gender on somebody else.
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- They get to choose.
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- You know, the fact is gender fluidity,
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- People who are confused about their gender,
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- I'll say it again,
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- They need to be treated compassionately,
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- But they must be treated.
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- It's an emotional disorder.
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- To be confused about your gender.
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- Just suppose your teenage son came into you parents
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- And said, you know, i've been thinking about this.
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- I've decided that i'm not a boy, i'm a kumquat.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- And i'm going to identify as a kumquat from this point on.
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- What would you do?
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- Would you say, oh, well honey,
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- Let me start dressing you like a kumquat
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- If that's what you want to be.
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- Or what if he said to you, you know, as a kumquat,
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- I don't feel comfortable going to the bathroom
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- And sharing a bathroom with other boys.
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- I want my own restroom to go to a kumquat restroom.
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- What would you do?
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- You would get that child to the psychologist
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- As soon as you possibly could.
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- They need help, they need therapy.
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- It's the same way with people who are confused
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- About their gender.
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- You know when you say, i am not going to identify any longer
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- With the gender that god made me,
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- That is the ultimate rebellion against your creator,
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- To say, you don't get to choose god,
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- I'm going to choose.
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- And you know, romans 1 tells us,
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- That whenever we harden our heart against god,
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- We reject whatever truth god has given us,
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- That leads to mental confusion.
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- They became darkened in their understanding.
- 00:12:56.932 --> 00:12:59.902
- Paul said, because they did not receive
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- The knowledge of the truth.
- 00:13:02.705 --> 00:13:04.874
- We need to have a clear word as god's people
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- In this decadent culture today,
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- That god is the one who has made us.
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- He has made us either male or female.
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- That's the basic teaching.
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- God made them male and female.
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- What does that have to do with marriage?
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- Verse five.
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- "and god said, for this reason, a man shall leave his father
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- And mother and be joined to his wife,
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- And the two shall become one flesh."
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- Jesus is reiterating what every plumber knows.
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- Sex is to be between opposites,
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- Not two people who are the same.
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- Between male and female.
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- In genesis 2:18, before god made eve,
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- Remember what he said to adam?
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- He said, adam, i'm getting ready
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- To make a helper suitable for you.
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- That word suitable and he literally means opposite you.
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- God didn't intend your spouse to be a duplicate of you.
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- God made your spouse to be an opposite
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- So that man or woman could compliment
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- E&t fit together with you to make a more powerful union.
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- Now, there's one area that a husband
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- And wife need to be the same in,
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- But quit trying to force your husband and wife
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- To be like you in every way.
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- God meant you're made to be opposite you,
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- To shore up the weaknesses, to be opposite in every way,
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- Including in your gender.
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- Theologian john piper explains it this way.
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- He said, by creating a person like adam,
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- Yet very unlike adam,
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- God provided the possibility of a profound unity
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- That would otherwise have been impossible.
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- Talking about the creation of eve.
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- A different kind of unity is enjoyed by joining
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- Of diverse counterparts
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- Than it is joined by joining together two things
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- That are alike.
- 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:05.861
- When we all sing the same melody line, it's called unison,
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- Which means one sound.
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- But when we unite the verse lines
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- Of soprano and alto and tenor and bass, and call it harmony,
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- And everyone who has an ear to hear knows
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- That something is touched in us more deeply
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- By great harmony than by unison.
- 00:15:26.315 --> 00:15:30.219
- So god made a woman and not another man,
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- He created heterosexuality, not homosexuality.
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- God's first institution was marriage,
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- Not a fraternity.
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- That's god's plan.
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- God's boundaries for marriage begins with, first of all,
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- We must choose a mate who is a member of the opposite sex.
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- Secondly, good grace recognizes
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- That our mate must be a believer.
- 00:16:02.918 --> 00:16:07.589
- Are you free to marry anybody you want to?
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- No, according to god's word,
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- A member of the opposite sex.
- 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:13.595
- Secondly, they have to be a believer.
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- That's your requirement by the way you find in both the old
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- And the new testaments.
- 00:16:19.368 --> 00:16:21.270
- Again, going back to the book of deuteronomy 7,
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- Moses told these israelites before they went into canaan,
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- To take the promised land,
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- You're going to be tempted to marry these pagan women,
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- The canaanites, don't do it.
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- Why?
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- Look at verses three and four of deuteronomy 7.
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- "furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them.
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- You shall not give your daughters to their sons,
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- Nor shall you take their daughters for your sons,
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- For they will turn your sons away from following me
- 00:16:49.998 --> 00:16:54.503
- To serve other gods.
- 00:16:54.503 --> 00:16:56.872
- Then the anger of the lord will be kindled against you
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- And he will quickly destroy you."
- 00:16:59.741 --> 00:17:02.778
- Now, will you notice the prohibition here
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- Is not against marrying somebody of another race.
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- Let's say this clearly.
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- There is nothing in the bible
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- That prohibits intermarriage between races.
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- That's not what this is about.
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- The prohibition was not because the canaanites
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- Were of a different race,
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- It's because they were of a different religion.
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- They were of a different faith.
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- If you're a christian, it doesn't matter what the skin color
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- Of your mate is, as long as they're a christian as well,
- 00:17:35.944 --> 00:17:39.248
- That has nothing to do with it.
- 00:17:39.248 --> 00:17:40.816
- What god cares is about the faith
- 00:17:40.816 --> 00:17:44.386
- That's worth applauding.
- 00:17:44.386 --> 00:17:45.587
- We need to say that
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- Because we have misapplied scripture in this area.
- 00:17:46.955 --> 00:17:51.994
- What matters is the faith of that other person.
- 00:17:52.995 --> 00:17:55.564
- We're the only marry believers, why?
- 00:17:55.564 --> 00:17:57.833
- First of all, to marry an unbeliever,
- 00:17:57.833 --> 00:18:00.569
- Moses said, will damage your relationship with god.
- 00:18:01.603 --> 00:18:05.841
- Notice verse four,
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- "they will turn your sons away from following me
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- To serve other gods."
- 00:18:10.546 --> 00:18:12.981
- May i tell you something, from my experience,
- 00:18:12.981 --> 00:18:15.784
- I've been doing this a long time?
- 00:18:15.784 --> 00:18:18.120
- In 40 plus years of observing couples and marrying couples,
- 00:18:19.321 --> 00:18:24.259
- Whenever a christian marries a non-christian,
- 00:18:24.259 --> 00:18:28.664
- Maybe one time out of 100,
- 00:18:29.231 --> 00:18:32.401
- That christian will lead his non-christian mate
- 00:18:32.401 --> 00:18:35.971
- To faith in christ.
- 00:18:35.971 --> 00:18:37.940
- One time in 100,
- 00:18:37.940 --> 00:18:40.008
- 99 times out of a 100,
- 00:18:40.008 --> 00:18:42.644
- That non-believing mate will bring down that believing mate.
- 00:18:42.644 --> 00:18:48.317
- Just bring him down or her down.
- 00:18:48.951 --> 00:18:52.621
- There'll be such bickering in the marriage over things
- 00:18:52.621 --> 00:18:55.591
- Like church attendance or how you're going to rear the children
- 00:18:55.591 --> 00:18:58.727
- Or giving to god's work.
- 00:18:58.727 --> 00:19:00.662
- There'll be such bickering and friction
- 00:19:00.662 --> 00:19:03.465
- That the believer who's the mate will just say,
- 00:19:03.465 --> 00:19:07.135
- I'm tired of all this turmoil.
- 00:19:07.135 --> 00:19:09.071
- I can't put up with it.
- 00:19:09.071 --> 00:19:10.272
- I'll give in.
- 00:19:10.272 --> 00:19:11.640
- That happens 99 times out of a 100.
- 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.309
- You may think as a christian,
- 00:19:14.309 --> 00:19:16.078
- You're going to bring
- 00:19:16.078 --> 00:19:17.779
- That non-christian mate up to where you are
- 00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:19.715
- In your relationship with god.
- 00:19:19.715 --> 00:19:21.216
- Most of the time they will tear you down
- 00:19:21.216 --> 00:19:23.518
- And bring you to down to where they are.
- 00:19:23.518 --> 00:19:25.854
- That's why we're not to marry an unbeliever.
- 00:19:25.854 --> 00:19:30.058
- But not only does it damage your relationship with god,
- 00:19:30.058 --> 00:19:32.928
- It disrupts your relationship with your own mate.
- 00:19:32.928 --> 00:19:35.597
- It's impossible to have true unity
- 00:19:35.597 --> 00:19:38.000
- When you have a spiritually mixed marriage.
- 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.636
- Paul alluded to that in 2 corinthians 6:14.
- 00:19:40.636 --> 00:19:43.605
- He said, "do not be bound together with unbelievers
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- For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness
- 00:19:47.376 --> 00:19:51.079
- Or what fellowship has light with darkness."
- 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:54.750
- That phrase, don't be bound together,
- 00:19:54.750 --> 00:19:57.319
- Literally means don't harness together
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- With an unbeliever.
- 00:20:00.656 --> 00:20:02.190
- In paul's day in agricultural society,
- 00:20:02.190 --> 00:20:05.093
- Farmers would take a harness with two holes in it
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- And they would put two animals to work together
- 00:20:08.664 --> 00:20:12.000
- To accomplish a task.
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- Maybe the plowing of a field, for example.
- 00:20:13.935 --> 00:20:16.672
- But you never mixed animals.
- 00:20:16.672 --> 00:20:18.307
- You didn't put a mule and a donkey
- 00:20:18.307 --> 00:20:20.942
- Or a mule and an oxen under the same harness
- 00:20:20.942 --> 00:20:24.846
- Because what happened would be the animals
- 00:20:24.846 --> 00:20:26.915
- Would go in opposite directions.
- 00:20:26.915 --> 00:20:28.884
- They weren't used to working together.
- 00:20:28.884 --> 00:20:31.353
- You want animals that are the same
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- That will go in the same direction together.
- 00:20:34.790 --> 00:20:37.659
- And paul is saying here,
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- Whenever you mix a marriage, it's like putting an ox
- 00:20:39.795 --> 00:20:43.732
- And a mule in the same harness.
- 00:20:43.732 --> 00:20:46.902
- Somebody asked me this week,
- 00:20:46.902 --> 00:20:49.438
- Pastor, do you believe our nation will finally have unity?
- 00:20:49.438 --> 00:20:54.242
- Everybody's talking about unity right now.
- 00:20:54.242 --> 00:20:56.812
- Can we have unity as a nation?
- 00:20:56.812 --> 00:20:59.114
- I said, i wish we could, but the answer is probably not.
- 00:20:59.114 --> 00:21:02.818
- Well, why do you say such a thing?
- 00:21:02.818 --> 00:21:04.386
- I said, you know, you can take the tails of a cat and a dog
- 00:21:04.386 --> 00:21:08.657
- And tie those tails together.
- 00:21:08.657 --> 00:21:11.093
- Those animals will be united, but they won't be unified.
- 00:21:11.093 --> 00:21:15.197
- There's a big difference.
- 00:21:15.197 --> 00:21:17.165
- To be unified means to be going in the same direction.
- 00:21:17.165 --> 00:21:21.069
- And god said to the prophet amos,
- 00:21:21.069 --> 00:21:23.305
- How can two people walk together lest they be agreed?
- 00:21:23.305 --> 00:21:28.110
- How can they go together
- 00:21:28.110 --> 00:21:30.045
- If they're headed in different directions?
- 00:21:30.045 --> 00:21:32.547
- Christians and non-christians
- 00:21:32.547 --> 00:21:34.383
- Are headed in different directions.
- 00:21:34.383 --> 00:21:36.685
- They have a whole different frame of reference about life
- 00:21:36.685 --> 00:21:39.821
- That affects how they plan their marriage,
- 00:21:39.821 --> 00:21:41.857
- How they spend their money, how they rear their children.
- 00:21:41.857 --> 00:21:45.093
- And whenever you are married together with an unbeliever,
- 00:21:45.093 --> 00:21:48.397
- You have a different foundation
- 00:21:48.397 --> 00:21:50.332
- That you're building your life and your family on.
- 00:21:50.332 --> 00:21:53.268
- Remember the psalmist, "unless the lord builds a house,
- 00:21:53.268 --> 00:21:56.505
- Those who labor, labor in vain."
- 00:21:56.505 --> 00:21:59.040
- Unless you have a common foundation,
- 00:21:59.040 --> 00:22:01.510
- God can never build a unified house on your marriage.
- 00:22:01.510 --> 00:22:04.813
- And that's why we're not to marry unbelievers.
- 00:22:04.813 --> 00:22:08.617
- Now, i know what you're thinking.
- 00:22:08.617 --> 00:22:10.318
- Some of you watching right now are thinking, well pastor,
- 00:22:10.318 --> 00:22:13.255
- I already made that mistake.
- 00:22:13.255 --> 00:22:15.390
- Either i didn't know better
- 00:22:15.390 --> 00:22:17.259
- Or i chose to disregard god's word.
- 00:22:17.259 --> 00:22:19.828
- I'm married to an unbeliever.
- 00:22:19.828 --> 00:22:21.696
- What am i supposed to do right now?
- 00:22:21.696 --> 00:22:24.099
- Should i divorce my mate
- 00:22:24.099 --> 00:22:26.034
- And go look for a christian to marry?
- 00:22:26.034 --> 00:22:28.336
- Fortunately, god's word has a clear answer on that,
- 00:22:29.371 --> 00:22:32.541
- Not on your life.
- 00:22:32.541 --> 00:22:33.708
- 1 corinthians 7 says.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- Well, a proper understanding of grace
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- Has just as much to say about faithfulness inside
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- The marriage, as it does about choosing the right partner.
- 00:22:46.054 --> 00:22:49.658
- And i'll continue addressing
- 00:22:49.658 --> 00:22:51.226
- This deeply personal topic next time.
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- So make plans to join us again.
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- In the time remaining today,
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- Let me affirm that god is using "pathway to victory"
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- To touch the hearts of men and women
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- We have ample evidence of that.
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- In fact, we've heard from newlyweds, single moms, widows,
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- The bible tells us we're saved by grace,
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- But do you allow yourself to receive grace?
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- Do you practice grace?
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- Do you abuse god's grace.
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- In "grace gone wild,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress clears up the confusion
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- And shows you how grace leads to joy, not guilt.
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- Christians fall into one of two traps
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- When it comes to grace.
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- Some believe grace means
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- There are no boundaries in living,
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- Others pile on so many rules
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- That christianity feels like a burden instead of a blessing.
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- In my book, "grace gone wild,"
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- More joy filled relationship with god.
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- Discover how understanding grace
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- Biblical teaching around the world.
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- Together we are piercing the darkness
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- With the light of god's word.
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- Choosing the right marriage partner
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- Is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make.
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- And as we've seen today,
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- Good grace doesn't give us a free pass
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- To ignore god's boundaries.
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- Good grace calls us to take those boundaries seriously.
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- But what happens after the vows are spoken?
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- Next time we're going to look at what good grace
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- And bad grace have to say
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- About faithfulness inside the marriage.
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- Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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- In our series, "grace gone wild."
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- If i have to still experience consequences for my sin,
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- What use is god's forgiveness?
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- It seems kind of useless if i have to suffer consequences.
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- Oh, no, no.
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- Grace means instead of spending 30
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- Or 40 years of suffering consequences,
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- You don't have to suffer 30 billion years
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- Of the consequences of your sin.
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- Set your dvr and join us next time
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- For part two of the message, good grace marriages,
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- Here on "pathway to victory."
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- And towering mountains,
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- I'm reminded of how incredibly creative our god is.
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