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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - How To Do Marriage Right

May 23, 2025 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - How To Do Marriage Right
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - How To Do Marriage Right | May 23, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: you see, satan hates marriage, why?
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  • 'cause satan hates what god loves.
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  • God established marriage.
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  • You know, it's worth noting the devil doesn't even show up in
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  • The book of genesis until after god created eve.
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  • I'm not blaming eve.
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  • I'm just saying once god says, "okay, man, woman together,"
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  • Satan says, "whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on here.
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  • I don't like this one bit," because he sees
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  • What it can become.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: i heard about a mother and her five-year-old daughter.
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  • They were watching "snow white and the seven dwarfs" together.
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  • The little girl had never seen this disney classic, and she was
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  • So excited and couldn't wait to tell her dad all about it when
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  • He got home.
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  • So dad gets home and the little girl runs up.
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  • "daddy, daddy, i just watched 'snow white and the
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  • Seven dwarfs.'
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  • I wanna tell you all about it."
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  • So she tells them the whole story and how the prince came
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  • And kissed snow white, and she woke up again.
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  • "and guess what happened next, daddy?"
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  • She says.
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  • Daddy, knowing fairytale, said, "well, they lived happily
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  • Ever after."
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  • The little girl said, "no, daddy, they got married."
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  • See, can we live happily ever after?
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  • Is marriage a fairytale?
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  • No, it is not.
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  • I don't think you can live happily ever after, but i do
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  • Think you can live happily even after if we do this god's way.
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  • Sometimes you'll see a marriage that's coming unhinged, and
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  • You'll say, "that is a marriage made in hell."
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  • Then you'll see another one that's doing well.
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  • "you'll say, that's a marriage made in heaven," as though it
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  • Were really arbitrary, the luck of the draw.
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  • No, if you see a strong and vibrant marriage, that's because
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  • The husband and the wife are putting effort into it, and if
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  • You see a marriage that is failing, then that's a result
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  • Of neglect.
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  • Those people are living out that simple statement that says
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  • Marriage is like a three-ringed circus, engagement ring, wedding
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  • Ring, and suffering.
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  • But it doesn't have to be that way.
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  • So i wanna talk about how to do marriage right.
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  • Marriage god's way, he shows us how to do it in scripture, but i
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  • Think each generation thinks maybe they can improve upon
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  • Marriage and do it their own way.
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  • I read about a survey of millennials that found that 43%
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  • Would support a beta-marriage model, which means testing
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  • Relationships for two years before deciding to commit
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  • Or dissolve.
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  • Thirty-six percent back what is called the real-estate marriage
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  • Model, in which couples commit to a set period of time and at
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  • The end renegotiate and decide if they want to remain married.
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  • There's a word for that, stupid.
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  • And i can tell you, it's not going to work.
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  • Listen, people think, "let's live together before we
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  • Get married.
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  • That'll be a good way to find out if we're really compatible."
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  • No, that will be a really good way to sabotage your
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  • Potential marriage.
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  • Stats have shown that couples who live together are gambling
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  • And losing, as 85% of the cases end up in divorce.
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  • A trial divorce is more what you're headed to, with eight out
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  • Of ten couples who live together before marriage end up breaking
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  • Up before the wedding or afterwards in divorce.
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  • Listen, marriage is a complete commitment.
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  • If you're not willing to make that commitment, stay single.
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  • Do us all a favor.
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  • Wedlock should be a padlock, and i wish we could strike this word
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  • "divorce" that is used so flippantly from our
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  • Vocabulary altogether.
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  • Listen, the bible tells you how to have a strong and
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  • Lasting marriage.
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  • We ignore it at our own peril.
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  • So let's look at what the scripture says.
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  • Ephesians 5, verse 31, "for this reason, a man shall leave his
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  • Father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two will
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  • Become one flesh.
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  • This is a great mystery, but i speak concerning christ and
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  • The church.
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  • Nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so love his
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  • Wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects
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  • Her husband."
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  • So, here's point number one, if you're taking notes.
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  • God created marriage. god created marriage.
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  • Adam didn't think of marriage.
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  • God did.
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  • Creating a mate for adam was not his idea.
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  • It was god's idea.
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  • Before god created the church, before god created the state,
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  • Before he created the school, god created marriage, and that
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  • Tells us something, which is marriage is the very foundation
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  • Of the family, and the family is the foundation of the nation.
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  • As marriage goes, so goes the family.
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  • As the family goes, so goes the nation, and that is why our
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  • Nation is having so many troubles today, literally,
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  • Because of the breakdown of the family.
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  • As i've said before, and i could bombard you with statistics to
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  • Prove this point, but as i've said before, you can take almost
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  • Any social ill today, be it violent crime, be it other
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  • Things that are happening in our culture, and you can trace it to
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  • The breakdown of the home.
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  • You see, satan hates marriage, why?
  • 00:06:03.261 --> 00:06:05.897
  • Because satan hates what god loves.
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  • God established marriage.
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  • You know, it's worth noting, the devil doesn't even show up on
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  • The book of genesis until after god created eve.
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  • I'm not blaming eve.
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  • I'm just saying once god says, "okay, man, woman together,"
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  • Satan says, "whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on here.
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  • I don't like this one bit," because he sees what it can
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  • Become, and he wants to destroy it and undermine it.
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  • If we want marriage to succeed, we must do it god's way.
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  • So number two, to have a marriage that works, it requires
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  • You to do two essential things, two essential things.
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  • They are leave and cleave.
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  • The purpose of marriage can be summed up in those words, leave
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  • And cleave.
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  • Verse 5, "for this reason a man shall leave his father and
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  • Mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two shall become
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  • One flesh."
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  • The hebrew word for cleave is translated abandoned, so the
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  • Idea is to abandon ship.
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  • The man must abandon the ship of his parents, and the daughter
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  • The same.
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  • The two of them now have their own little ship, or maybe it's
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  • Just a little boat, and that's called marriage.
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  • That's a new family.
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  • So a successful and lasting marriage begins with a leaving.
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  • In effect, you're leaving all other relationships.
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  • The closest relationship outside of marriage is specified here,
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  • That of a son to his parents, meaning it's necessary to leave
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  • Your father, mother, and also lesser ties must be broken,
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  • Changed, or left behind.
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  • Now, that doesn't mean you're no longer a sibling or a son or a
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  • Daughter, but it means that this new family, the union of the man
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  • And the woman, takes precedence over everything else.
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  • The primary responsibility now of the husband is to the wife
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  • And of the wife to the husband and of the parents to
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  • The children.
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  • Leaving means other relationships have a lesser
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  • Degree of importance.
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  • You can still have friends, but now it's different 'cause you're
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  • A married man.
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  • You're a married woman.
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  • So you leave and you cleave, the word cleave means to glue or
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  • To cling.
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  • It's something that you're holding on to, sort of like if
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  • You're scaling up the side of a cliff.
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  • You're holding on for dear life.
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  • I've watched these videos of people climbing with their
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  • Little hammers and, you know, dink, dink, dink, and they
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  • Swing over.
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  • It's insane, right?
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  • But you're hanging on.
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  • That's the idea.
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  • You're glued together.
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  • So you leave and cleave.
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  • You sever and bond.
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  • You loosen and secure.
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  • You depart from and you attach to.
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  • Listen to this, your spouse should be your best friend, your
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  • Spouse, not someone else.
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  • There's a key verse that emphasizes the importance of
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  • Friendship between spouses.
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  • Malachi 2:13 says, "the lord has been witnessed between you and
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  • The wife of your youth to whom you have been faithless,
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  • Although she is your companion and wife."
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  • Interesting.
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  • So, basically, god is saying your wife should be your
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  • Companion, and that means one you are united with in thoughts,
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  • Goals, plans, and efforts.
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  • Are you united, husbands, with your wives in thoughts, goals,
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  • Plans, and efforts?
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  • How well do you know your wife?
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  • If you don't get this right, it can hinder your prayer life,
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  • Husbands, because 1 peter 3:7 says, "husbands, do well with
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  • Your wife according to understanding.
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  • Give honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel as being heirs
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  • Together of the grace of life so your prayers will not
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  • Be hindered."
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  • So maybe i'm talking to a husband right now that feels
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  • Like his prayers aren't going any higher than the ceiling, and
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  • I wonder, are you honoring your wife?
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  • Are you loving your wife?
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  • Greg: hey, have you ever prayed about something and prayed about
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  • It, and nothing seemed to happen and you're wondering, "wait,
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  • What happened?"
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  • Here's my question.
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  • Did you pray with fervency?
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  • You know, the bible says the fervent prayer of a righteous
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  • Man accomplishes much.
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  • What is fervency?
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  • Well, it's praying with passion.
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  • It's praying wholeheartedly.
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  • It's praying with commitment.
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  • Jesus said, "ask and it shall be given.
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  • Seek and you shall find.
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  • Knock and the door shall be opened."
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  • And in the verb form, there's an ascending intensity in
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  • Those words.
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  • In other words, he's saying, keep asking, keep seeking, keep
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  • Knocking, praying in such a way where you will not accept no for
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  • An answer.
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  • You might say, "well, greg, that's a little presumptuous,
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  • Isn't it?"
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  • It's not presumptuous if you're praying for what god wants to
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  • Give you, so i think when we're praying for god to forgive us of
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  • Our sin or we're praying for our nation, we're praying for things
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  • He wants to do.
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  • Pray with passion.
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  • Greg: point number three, men hold the key to a happy and
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  • Working marriage.
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  • Men hold the key to a working and happy marriage.
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  • Ephesians 5:25, "husbands love your wives, just as christ loved
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  • The church and gave himself for her, that he might sanctify and
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  • Cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that he might
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  • Present her to himself a glorious church, not having spot
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  • Or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holding
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  • Him without blemish."
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  • Listen, so husbands ought to love their own wives as their
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  • Own bodies.
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  • He who loves his wife loves himself.
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  • Now, it's worth noting that in ephesians 5 that paul has a lot
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  • More to say to the husbands than he does to the wives.
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  • It does not mean that the wives don't need to do their part and
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  • Pay attention, but it is to say that if you count of the verses,
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  • Paul has three times more to say to a husband than a wife.
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  • So, gentlemen, start your engines.
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  • It's time for you to take point.
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  • You are to love your wife as christ loves the church.
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  • "that's easy."
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  • No, it is not.
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  • A tall order.
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  • I'll tell you how we can do this in a few moments, but here's a
  • 00:12:38.590 --> 00:12:41.860
  • Simple test to know whether or not you love your wife as you
  • 00:12:41.860 --> 00:12:45.697
  • Ought to.
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  • Do you love her enough to just live for--not to just live for
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  • Her but to die for her and die to you?
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  • Listen.
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  • Die to you, not just die for her.
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  • "i'd die for my wife."
  • 00:12:58.910 --> 00:13:00.278
  • Yeah okay, you probably would.
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  • Maybe not every husband.
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  • Somewhat.
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  • But would you die to yourself?
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  • If you wanna love your wife, you've got to die for what you
  • 00:13:08.419 --> 00:13:11.322
  • Want out of the marriage and start living for what you can
  • 00:13:11.322 --> 00:13:14.392
  • Give to the marriage.
  • 00:13:14.392 --> 00:13:16.294
  • Let me say that again.
  • 00:13:16.294 --> 00:13:17.629
  • If you wanna love your wife as you ought to, you've got to die
  • 00:13:17.629 --> 00:13:21.466
  • For what you want out of the marriage and start living for
  • 00:13:21.466 --> 00:13:25.370
  • What you can give to the marriage.
  • 00:13:25.370 --> 00:13:27.672
  • Listen, marriage is not so much finding the right person as much
  • 00:13:27.672 --> 00:13:32.377
  • As it is being the right person.
  • 00:13:32.377 --> 00:13:35.880
  • I'd like to say to husbands and wives, stop reading each
  • 00:13:35.880 --> 00:13:38.349
  • Other's mail.
  • 00:13:38.349 --> 00:13:40.084
  • Don't quote versus to your husband about what he's supposed
  • 00:13:40.084 --> 00:13:43.388
  • To do, or to the wife about what she's supposed to do.
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  • Read your own mail, and do what god tells you to do.
  • 00:13:46.991 --> 00:13:53.064
  • So think about this, husbands, if you'll just take point, take
  • 00:13:53.064 --> 00:13:57.869
  • The initiative and lead and love your wife as christ loves the
  • 00:13:57.869 --> 00:14:01.906
  • Church, she will respond.
  • 00:14:01.906 --> 00:14:04.976
  • I mean, why are we christians right now?
  • 00:14:04.976 --> 00:14:07.212
  • Why do you and i and all of us together believe in jesus.
  • 00:14:07.212 --> 00:14:10.915
  • The bible says we love him because what?
  • 00:14:10.915 --> 00:14:14.419
  • You got it.
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  • We love him because he first loved us.
  • 00:14:15.787 --> 00:14:18.389
  • We responded to his love.
  • 00:14:18.389 --> 00:14:20.825
  • His love won us over.
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  • His love broke through.
  • 00:14:23.194 --> 00:14:25.830
  • Now we love him.
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  • In the same way the husband says, "i'm gonna love
  • 00:14:27.165 --> 00:14:29.467
  • This woman.
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  • I'm gonna make her my priority.
  • 00:14:30.802 --> 00:14:32.470
  • I'm gonna--to the best of my ability--and i know i'll fail,
  • 00:14:32.470 --> 00:14:35.540
  • But seek to love her as christ loves the church."
  • 00:14:35.540 --> 00:14:38.142
  • You don't think she's gonna respond?
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  • Hey, you treat her like a thoroughbred, and she won't end
  • 00:14:40.211 --> 00:14:43.982
  • Up as a nag.
  • 00:14:43.982 --> 00:14:46.718
  • I know that'll offend someone.
  • 00:14:46.718 --> 00:14:48.953
  • "women are not horses."
  • 00:14:48.953 --> 00:14:50.455
  • Okay, whatever, but you get my point, right?
  • 00:14:50.455 --> 00:14:54.759
  • Love her as she needs to be loved, as she deserves to
  • 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.695
  • Be loved.
  • 00:14:57.695 --> 00:14:59.030
  • Point number four, doing marriage right requires
  • 00:14:59.030 --> 00:15:02.233
  • Constant communication.
  • 00:15:02.233 --> 00:15:05.003
  • You know, a poll was taken among those who were divorced, and
  • 00:15:05.003 --> 00:15:08.573
  • They asked them to say why they thought their marriage fell
  • 00:15:08.573 --> 00:15:12.210
  • Apart, and 86% said deficient communication.
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  • You need to learn how to bend, compromise, resolve,
  • 00:15:19.284 --> 00:15:23.521
  • And forgive.
  • 00:15:23.521 --> 00:15:24.856
  • When's the last time you told your wife that you love her,
  • 00:15:24.856 --> 00:15:27.825
  • Husbands, actually verbalized it, said it to her?
  • 00:15:27.825 --> 00:15:32.530
  • Can you remember?
  • 00:15:32.530 --> 00:15:34.198
  • You know, sometimes it's said women are more emotional
  • 00:15:34.198 --> 00:15:37.035
  • Than men.
  • 00:15:37.035 --> 00:15:38.369
  • I don't think that's true.
  • 00:15:38.369 --> 00:15:39.737
  • It's also said women don't park well.
  • 00:15:39.737 --> 00:15:43.841
  • That is true.
  • 00:15:43.841 --> 00:15:45.176
  • But no, but men are just as emotional as women.
  • 00:15:45.176 --> 00:15:52.016
  • They just express it differently.
  • 00:15:52.016 --> 00:15:55.153
  • You girls, you just do a better job with it.
  • 00:15:55.153 --> 00:15:58.456
  • You know, girls, we're mystified by the way girls communicate
  • 00:15:58.456 --> 00:16:02.660
  • 'cause you can have four girls talking over each other and
  • 00:16:02.660 --> 00:16:07.365
  • Somehow being understood.
  • 00:16:07.365 --> 00:16:08.933
  • We're like, "what's happening?"
  • 00:16:08.933 --> 00:16:11.302
  • You know, a guy talks to a guy and is like, "how you doing?"
  • 00:16:11.302 --> 00:16:15.840
  • "good, how about you?"
  • 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.710
  • "all right, man."
  • 00:16:18.710 --> 00:16:21.946
  • Very simple to understand.
  • 00:16:21.946 --> 00:16:23.481
  • Girls, it's like it's mystical to us, and then they all go to
  • 00:16:23.481 --> 00:16:27.685
  • The bathroom together in a restaurant.
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  • Guys would never do that.
  • 00:16:31.222 --> 00:16:32.890
  • Guy would never say, "going to the bathroom, wanna come?"
  • 00:16:32.890 --> 00:16:35.126
  • Hey, if we see a guy in the bathroom, it's awkward.
  • 00:16:35.126 --> 00:16:39.297
  • "oh, hey, whoa, okay."
  • 00:16:39.297 --> 00:16:45.103
  • But we feel the emotion.
  • 00:16:45.103 --> 00:16:46.671
  • We think those thoughts.
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  • You don't think we think.
  • 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:49.374
  • We actually do think them.
  • 00:16:49.374 --> 00:16:51.542
  • We'll look at our wife and say, "she's so beautiful today.
  • 00:16:51.542 --> 00:16:54.579
  • Oh, i loved that. that was a great meal."
  • 00:16:54.579 --> 00:16:56.381
  • But we won't say it, we'll think it.
  • 00:16:56.381 --> 00:16:58.182
  • We expect her to read our minds.
  • 00:16:58.182 --> 00:17:00.018
  • So you need to verbalize it.
  • 00:17:00.018 --> 00:17:02.687
  • Proverbs 31 says, "her children rise up and call her blessed."
  • 00:17:02.687 --> 00:17:06.858
  • By the way, kids, it's good to tell your mother you love her
  • 00:17:06.858 --> 00:17:10.428
  • And appreciate her and call her blessed, but then it goes on to
  • 00:17:10.428 --> 00:17:14.098
  • Say, "and her husband also and praises her."
  • 00:17:14.098 --> 00:17:17.168
  • He praises her.
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  • Brag on your wives, husbands, in front of your kids, how
  • 00:17:19.837 --> 00:17:24.208
  • Wonderful this woman is.
  • 00:17:24.208 --> 00:17:26.244
  • Brag on her to other people.
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  • Never criticize your spouse publicly.
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  • What if they do something wrong?
  • 00:17:32.917 --> 00:17:34.652
  • Learn the art of kicking them under the table.
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  • That's what--no open criticism.
  • 00:17:36.921 --> 00:17:39.891
  • You deal with that later.
  • 00:17:39.891 --> 00:17:41.626
  • You praise each other, and it's same--the same is true for
  • 00:17:41.626 --> 00:17:45.296
  • The wife.
  • 00:17:45.296 --> 00:17:46.631
  • Number five, doing marriage right comes back to a commitment
  • 00:17:46.631 --> 00:17:50.802
  • You reaffirm every day.
  • 00:17:50.802 --> 00:17:53.571
  • Doing marriage right comes back to a commitment you reaffirm
  • 00:17:53.571 --> 00:17:58.509
  • Every day.
  • 00:17:58.509 --> 00:17:59.877
  • Every marriage has its share of problems and challenges.
  • 00:17:59.877 --> 00:18:03.981
  • You and your wife will change with the passing of time.
  • 00:18:03.981 --> 00:18:09.153
  • Do your wives ever feel like you dated dr. jekyll and married
  • 00:18:09.153 --> 00:18:12.790
  • Mr. hyde?
  • 00:18:12.790 --> 00:18:15.159
  • Do your husbands feel like you went to bed with sleeping beauty
  • 00:18:15.159 --> 00:18:18.162
  • And woke up with a wicked witch of the west?
  • 00:18:18.162 --> 00:18:22.500
  • Like, what happened?
  • 00:18:22.500 --> 00:18:23.835
  • There's actually an old arab proverb that says this, quote,
  • 00:18:23.835 --> 00:18:27.972
  • "marriage begins with a prince kissing an angel and ends up
  • 00:18:27.972 --> 00:18:32.110
  • With a bald-headed man looking across the table at a fat lady."
  • 00:18:32.110 --> 00:18:38.716
  • Oh, brutal.
  • 00:18:38.716 --> 00:18:40.885
  • It's true for our marriage, not my wife's part, but she ended up
  • 00:18:40.885 --> 00:18:44.555
  • With a bald man, didn't she?
  • 00:18:44.555 --> 00:18:47.291
  • But we changed.
  • 00:18:47.291 --> 00:18:48.626
  • You know, things happen, but it's that commitment that we
  • 00:18:48.626 --> 00:18:52.363
  • Have made.
  • 00:18:52.363 --> 00:18:53.731
  • Dating reveals the best of you.
  • 00:18:53.731 --> 00:18:56.067
  • Marriage reveals the worst of you.
  • 00:18:56.067 --> 00:18:59.270
  • All spouses are going to disagree.
  • 00:18:59.270 --> 00:19:02.640
  • "well, we just disagree all the time.
  • 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:04.509
  • We have irreconcilable differences."
  • 00:19:04.509 --> 00:19:06.544
  • Oh, please.
  • 00:19:06.544 --> 00:19:08.146
  • As i've said so many times, i've had irreconcilable differences
  • 00:19:08.146 --> 00:19:11.883
  • With my wife for almost 50 years, and she with me.
  • 00:19:11.883 --> 00:19:15.753
  • Listen, you need to press on.
  • 00:19:15.753 --> 00:19:17.288
  • You can get through it because the best is yet to come.
  • 00:19:17.288 --> 00:19:20.992
  • "well, how do you know that, greg?"
  • 00:19:20.992 --> 00:19:23.161
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:19:23.161 --> 00:19:24.495
  • A study was done in couples who said they were having conflict
  • 00:19:24.495 --> 00:19:28.266
  • But decided to stay together.
  • 00:19:28.266 --> 00:19:30.168
  • Two-thirds of the unhappily married spouses who stayed
  • 00:19:30.168 --> 00:19:33.538
  • Married reported their marriages were happy five years later.
  • 00:19:33.538 --> 00:19:38.743
  • Most striking, long-term studies demonstrate that two-thirds of
  • 00:19:38.743 --> 00:19:42.747
  • Those unhappy marriages out there will become happy within
  • 00:19:42.747 --> 00:19:46.417
  • Five years if the people stay married and don't get divorced.
  • 00:19:46.417 --> 00:19:51.289
  • So just hang in there.
  • 00:19:51.289 --> 00:19:53.524
  • No, fairytale marriages are not possible, but biblical, blessed,
  • 00:19:53.524 --> 00:20:00.298
  • Successful marriages are, but you need to apply effort and
  • 00:20:00.298 --> 00:20:06.470
  • Tend that garden and maintain and tune up that car and give
  • 00:20:06.470 --> 00:20:12.109
  • Attention to your spouse.
  • 00:20:12.109 --> 00:20:13.611
  • Last point, number six, i need the power of the holy spirit to
  • 00:20:13.611 --> 00:20:18.249
  • Be a good spouse, amen?
  • 00:20:18.249 --> 00:20:21.419
  • I need, you need, we need the power of the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:21.419 --> 00:20:26.958
  • Before paul says to husbands "love your wife as christ loves
  • 00:20:26.958 --> 00:20:30.394
  • The church," before paul says, "wives submit unto your husbands
  • 00:20:30.394 --> 00:20:34.899
  • And respect your husbands," he says this in ephesians 5,
  • 00:20:34.899 --> 00:20:38.502
  • Verse 18.
  • 00:20:38.502 --> 00:20:39.837
  • "don't be drunk with wine, because it will ruin your life.
  • 00:20:39.837 --> 00:20:43.241
  • Instead, be filled with the holy spirit, singing psalms and hymns
  • 00:20:43.241 --> 00:20:47.144
  • And spiritual songs and making music in your heart to the lord,
  • 00:20:47.144 --> 00:20:51.115
  • And give thanks for everything to god the father in the name of
  • 00:20:51.115 --> 00:20:54.018
  • Our lord, jesus christ," don't miss this verse, "and further,
  • 00:20:54.018 --> 00:20:57.188
  • Submit to one another out of reverence for christ."
  • 00:20:57.188 --> 00:21:01.792
  • The filling of the holy spirit will empower you to be a
  • 00:21:01.792 --> 00:21:05.863
  • Godly spouse.
  • 00:21:05.863 --> 00:21:07.798
  • I cannot love my wife as christ loves the church in my
  • 00:21:07.798 --> 00:21:12.770
  • Own strength.
  • 00:21:12.770 --> 00:21:14.605
  • Ladies, you cannot submit to and respect your husband as you
  • 00:21:14.605 --> 00:21:20.378
  • Ought to without the help of the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:20.378 --> 00:21:23.981
  • God will give you this power to put the needs of your mate
  • 00:21:23.981 --> 00:21:29.020
  • First, and listen, we overly mystify the filling of the holy
  • 00:21:29.020 --> 00:21:34.025
  • Spirit, even the way we talk about it, "and you need to be
  • 00:21:34.025 --> 00:21:38.195
  • Filled with the holy spirit."
  • 00:21:38.195 --> 00:21:43.501
  • Okay, whatever.
  • 00:21:43.501 --> 00:21:46.404
  • I don't think it's that complex.
  • 00:21:46.404 --> 00:21:48.873
  • You can be laying in bed in the morning and say, "lord, just
  • 00:21:48.873 --> 00:21:51.442
  • Fill me with the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:51.442 --> 00:21:52.977
  • Help me to be a more godly husband, a more godly wife, a
  • 00:21:52.977 --> 00:21:56.047
  • More godly parent, a more godly single person.
  • 00:21:56.047 --> 00:21:58.749
  • Lord, help me to be a godly man or woman."
  • 00:21:58.749 --> 00:22:03.788
  • And if you're a spirit-filled person, you will be a
  • 00:22:03.788 --> 00:22:07.091
  • Submitting person.
  • 00:22:07.091 --> 00:22:08.626
  • Oh, we don't like that word submit, do we?
  • 00:22:08.626 --> 00:22:11.696
  • We hate it because we think it speaks of subservience and
  • 00:22:11.696 --> 00:22:15.633
  • Slavery, but that's not the proper understanding.
  • 00:22:15.633 --> 00:22:19.337
  • We're thinking culturally, not biblically.
  • 00:22:19.337 --> 00:22:22.373
  • Let me put it another way.
  • 00:22:22.373 --> 00:22:23.874
  • If you're spirit-filled, you'll think of others more
  • 00:22:23.874 --> 00:22:26.677
  • Than yourself.
  • 00:22:26.677 --> 00:22:28.045
  • Here's the problem.
  • 00:22:28.045 --> 00:22:29.380
  • I walk in the marriage, and i say, "how are you gonna
  • 00:22:29.380 --> 00:22:31.048
  • Fulfill me?
  • 00:22:31.048 --> 00:22:32.383
  • How are you gonna make me happy?
  • 00:22:32.383 --> 00:22:34.185
  • What are you gonna do for me?
  • 00:22:34.185 --> 00:22:35.953
  • What have you done for me lately?"
  • 00:22:35.953 --> 00:22:38.022
  • To quote a song title.
  • 00:22:38.022 --> 00:22:39.857
  • "it's all about me.
  • 00:22:39.857 --> 00:22:41.192
  • It's you doing this for me."
  • 00:22:41.192 --> 00:22:42.560
  • And then the other person has the same attitude.
  • 00:22:42.560 --> 00:22:44.929
  • "what are you gonna do for me?"
  • 00:22:44.929 --> 00:22:46.263
  • Well, in time, we conflict, and the marriage falls apart because
  • 00:22:46.263 --> 00:22:50.668
  • Of selfishness, so if you want a successful marriage, you need to
  • 00:22:50.668 --> 00:22:54.572
  • Be filled with the holy spirit and live a life of selflessness.
  • 00:22:54.572 --> 00:22:59.243
  • That's what paul is saying.
  • 00:22:59.243 --> 00:23:00.611
  • Submit to one another in the reverence of god.
  • 00:23:00.611 --> 00:23:03.481
  • Before a single word is said to a wife about respecting and
  • 00:23:03.481 --> 00:23:07.918
  • Submitting to her husband, before a word is said about
  • 00:23:07.918 --> 00:23:10.988
  • Husbands loving his wife, paul says submit to one another, and
  • 00:23:10.988 --> 00:23:15.426
  • The word submit means put the other's needs first.
  • 00:23:15.426 --> 00:23:18.696
  • It's not about superiority or inferiority.
  • 00:23:18.696 --> 00:23:21.766
  • It's about sacrifice.
  • 00:23:21.766 --> 00:23:23.901
  • Another way to translate it is supporting one another in the
  • 00:23:23.901 --> 00:23:28.406
  • Reverence of god.
  • 00:23:28.406 --> 00:23:29.774
  • So--i want you to be the best version of you that you can be.
  • 00:23:29.774 --> 00:23:34.645
  • I'm your biggest cheerleader.
  • 00:23:34.645 --> 00:23:36.447
  • I'm in your corner, wife, husband.
  • 00:23:36.447 --> 00:23:39.550
  • I'll tell you the truth when no one else will, but i also want
  • 00:23:39.550 --> 00:23:43.521
  • To encourage you and help you be the man or the woman that god
  • 00:23:43.521 --> 00:23:46.991
  • Has created you to be.
  • 00:23:46.991 --> 00:23:48.959
  • We have to find our place, and again, as i said earlier, stop
  • 00:23:48.959 --> 00:23:52.530
  • Reading each other's mail.
  • 00:23:52.530 --> 00:23:54.865
  • Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart and you have seen
  • 00:23:59.069 --> 00:24:03.908
  • Your need for jesus christ.
  • 00:24:03.908 --> 00:24:05.843
  • Jesus christ is the son of god, who came from heaven to
  • 00:24:05.843 --> 00:24:10.314
  • This earth.
  • 00:24:10.314 --> 00:24:11.682
  • He was born in a manger.
  • 00:24:11.682 --> 00:24:13.050
  • He died on a cross.
  • 00:24:13.050 --> 00:24:14.819
  • He rose again from the dead, why?
  • 00:24:14.819 --> 00:24:16.954
  • Because he loves you, and he wants a relationship with you.
  • 00:24:16.954 --> 00:24:20.591
  • Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
  • 00:24:20.591 --> 00:24:22.726
  • I don't wanna be a religious person.
  • 00:24:22.726 --> 00:24:24.728
  • I don't think you wanna be one either.
  • 00:24:24.728 --> 00:24:26.530
  • I'm talking about relationship with god.
  • 00:24:26.530 --> 00:24:30.201
  • Jesus who died and rose again stands at the door of your life
  • 00:24:30.201 --> 00:24:34.705
  • And he knocks, and he says if you'll hear his voice and open
  • 00:24:34.705 --> 00:24:38.075
  • The door, he will come in.
  • 00:24:38.075 --> 00:24:39.477
  • Question.
  • 00:24:39.477 --> 00:24:40.845
  • Have you asked jesus christ to come and live inside of you?
  • 00:24:40.845 --> 00:24:43.814
  • You might say, "well, i think so.
  • 00:24:43.814 --> 00:24:45.182
  • I'm not sure."
  • 00:24:45.182 --> 00:24:46.550
  • Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle of the
  • 00:24:46.550 --> 00:24:48.586
  • Night, do you think you would be aware of it?
  • 00:24:48.586 --> 00:24:51.121
  • I'm sure you would.
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  • And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
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  • You will know, and if you don't know, maybe he has not come
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  • In yet.
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  • He's just a prayer away.
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  • All you need to do is say, "jesus, i want this relationship
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  • With you.
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  • I want you to forgive me of my sin.
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  • I want to go to heaven when i die."
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  • Would you like to do that?
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  • Would you like christ to come into your life?
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  • If so, why don't you just pray this simple prayer with me?
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  • You can pray it out loud or you can pray it in the quietness of
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  • Your heart, but this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ
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  • To be your savior and lord.
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  • Pray this with me now.
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  • Lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner, but i know that you're
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  • The savior, who died on the cross for my sin and rose again
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  • From the dead.
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  • Now come into my life.
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  • I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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  • Thank you for hearing this prayer and answering this
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  • Prayer, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If so, i want you to know on the authority of scripture that
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  • Christ himself has come to live inside of you, and i would love
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  • To send to you, at no charge, the new believer's bible.
  • 00:26:01.225 --> 00:26:05.195
  • It's a very friendly translation of the new testament you'll find
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  • Very understandable, and it's filled with hundreds of notes
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  • That i wrote that will encourage you in this commitment you've
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  • Just made to follow jesus, and let me be the first to say to
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  • You, congratulations and welcome to the family of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, at harvest ministries we're committing to reaching
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  • Unexpected people in unexpected places with an
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  • Unexpected message.
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  • And thanks to your financial support, we've been able to
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  • Touch people all over the world with the hope of jesus christ.
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  • Your gifts today not only help us reach millions across the
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  • Country through this television program, they also help us to
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  • Bring hope to people in their biggest need, whether through
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  • Our evangelistic events or our relief efforts, together we've
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  • Been able to minister to so many people devastated by the fires
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  • In lahaina on the island of maui.
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  • And also, your support has helped us partner to bring
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  • Medical help in the ongoing conflict in israel.
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  • So i'm asking you today to continue to support this
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  • Ministry so we can do everything possible to fulfill the
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  • Great commission.
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  • Let's do this together, and let me say in advance,
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  • Thank you and god bless you.
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