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Greg Laurie - How To Do Marriage Right

May 20, 2026 | 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 20, 2026
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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?
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  • Because satan hates what god loves.
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  • God established marriage.
  • 00:06:07.710 --> 00:06:09.345
  • 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
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  • Simple test to know whether or not you love your wife as you
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  • 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."
  • 00:12:57.653 --> 00:12:59.021
  • 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
  • 00:13:07.163 --> 00:13:10.065
  • Want out of the marriage and start living for what you can
  • 00:13:10.065 --> 00:13:13.135
  • Give to the marriage.
  • 00:13:13.135 --> 00:13:15.037
  • Let me say that again.
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  • If you wanna love your wife as you ought to, you've got to die
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  • For what you want out of the marriage and start living for
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  • What you can give to the marriage.
  • 00:13:24.113 --> 00:13:26.415
  • Listen, marriage is not so much finding the right person as much
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  • As it is being the right person.
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  • I'd like to say to husbands and wives, stop reading each
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  • Other's mail.
  • 00:13:37.092 --> 00:13:38.828
  • Don't quote versus to your husband about what he's supposed
  • 00:13:38.828 --> 00:13:42.131
  • 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.
  • 00:13:45.734 --> 00:13:51.807
  • So think about this, husbands, if you'll just take point, take
  • 00:13:51.807 --> 00:13:56.612
  • The initiative and lead and love your wife as christ loves the
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  • Church, she will respond.
  • 00:14:00.649 --> 00:14:03.719
  • I mean, why are we christians right now?
  • 00:14:03.719 --> 00:14:05.955
  • Why do you and i and all of us together believe in jesus.
  • 00:14:05.955 --> 00:14:09.658
  • The bible says we love him because what?
  • 00:14:09.658 --> 00:14:13.162
  • You got it.
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  • We love him because he first loved us.
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  • We responded to his love.
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  • His love won us over.
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  • His love broke through.
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  • Now we love him.
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  • In the same way the husband says, "i'm gonna love
  • 00:14:25.908 --> 00:14:28.210
  • This woman.
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  • I'm gonna make her my priority.
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  • I'm gonna--to the best of my ability--and i know i'll fail,
  • 00:14:31.213 --> 00:14:34.283
  • But seek to love her as christ loves the church."
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  • You don't think she's gonna respond?
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  • Hey, you treat her like a thoroughbred, and she won't end
  • 00:14:38.954 --> 00:14:42.725
  • Up as a nag.
  • 00:14:42.725 --> 00:14:45.461
  • I know that'll offend someone.
  • 00:14:45.461 --> 00:14:47.696
  • "women are not horses."
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  • Okay, whatever, but you get my point, right?
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  • Love her as she needs to be loved, as she deserves to
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  • Be loved.
  • 00:14:56.438 --> 00:14:57.773
  • Point number four, doing marriage right requires
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  • Constant communication.
  • 00:15:00.976 --> 00:15:03.746
  • You know, a poll was taken among those who were divorced, and
  • 00:15:03.746 --> 00:15:07.316
  • They asked them to say why they thought their marriage fell
  • 00:15:07.316 --> 00:15:10.953
  • Apart, and 86% said deficient communication.
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  • You need to learn how to bend, compromise, resolve,
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  • And forgive.
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  • When's the last time you told your wife that you love her,
  • 00:15:23.599 --> 00:15:26.568
  • Husbands, actually verbalized it, said it to her?
  • 00:15:26.568 --> 00:15:31.273
  • Can you remember?
  • 00:15:31.273 --> 00:15:32.942
  • You know, sometimes it's said women are more emotional
  • 00:15:32.942 --> 00:15:35.778
  • Than men.
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  • I don't think that's true.
  • 00:15:37.112 --> 00:15:38.480
  • It's also said women don't park well.
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  • That is true.
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  • But no, but men are just as emotional as women.
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  • They just express it differently.
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  • You girls, you just do a better job with it.
  • 00:15:53.896 --> 00:15:57.199
  • You know, girls, we're mystified by the way girls communicate
  • 00:15:57.199 --> 00:16:01.403
  • 'cause you can have four girls talking over each other and
  • 00:16:01.403 --> 00:16:06.108
  • Somehow being understood.
  • 00:16:06.108 --> 00:16:07.676
  • We're like, "what's happening?"
  • 00:16:07.676 --> 00:16:10.045
  • You know, a guy talks to a guy and is like, "how you doing?"
  • 00:16:10.045 --> 00:16:14.583
  • "good, how about you?"
  • 00:16:14.583 --> 00:16:17.453
  • "all right, man."
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  • Very simple to understand.
  • 00:16:20.689 --> 00:16:22.224
  • Girls, it's like it's mystical to us, and then they all go to
  • 00:16:22.224 --> 00:16:26.428
  • The bathroom together in a restaurant.
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  • Guys would never do that.
  • 00:16:29.965 --> 00:16:31.633
  • Guy would never say, "going to the bathroom, wanna come?"
  • 00:16:31.633 --> 00:16:33.869
  • Hey, if we see a guy in the bathroom, it's awkward.
  • 00:16:33.869 --> 00:16:38.040
  • "oh, hey, whoa, okay."
  • 00:16:38.040 --> 00:16:43.846
  • But we feel the emotion.
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  • We think those thoughts.
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  • You don't think we think.
  • 00:16:46.782 --> 00:16:48.117
  • We actually do think them.
  • 00:16:48.117 --> 00:16:50.285
  • We'll look at our wife and say, "she's so beautiful today.
  • 00:16:50.285 --> 00:16:53.322
  • Oh, i loved that. that was a great meal."
  • 00:16:53.322 --> 00:16:55.124
  • But we won't say it, we'll think it.
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  • We expect her to read our minds.
  • 00:16:56.925 --> 00:16:58.761
  • So you need to verbalize it.
  • 00:16:58.761 --> 00:17:01.430
  • Proverbs 31 says, "her children rise up and call her blessed."
  • 00:17:01.430 --> 00:17:05.601
  • By the way, kids, it's good to tell your mother you love her
  • 00:17:05.601 --> 00:17:09.171
  • And appreciate her and call her blessed, but then it goes on to
  • 00:17:09.171 --> 00:17:12.841
  • Say, "and her husband also and praises her."
  • 00:17:12.841 --> 00:17:15.911
  • He praises her.
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  • Brag on your wives, husbands, in front of your kids, how
  • 00:17:18.580 --> 00:17:22.951
  • Wonderful this woman is.
  • 00:17:22.951 --> 00:17:24.987
  • 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?
  • 00:17:31.660 --> 00:17:33.395
  • Learn the art of kicking them under the table.
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  • That's what--no open criticism.
  • 00:17:35.664 --> 00:17:38.634
  • You deal with that later.
  • 00:17:38.634 --> 00:17:40.369
  • You praise each other, and it's same--the same is true for
  • 00:17:40.369 --> 00:17:44.039
  • The wife.
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  • Number five, doing marriage right comes back to a commitment
  • 00:17:45.374 --> 00:17:49.545
  • You reaffirm every day.
  • 00:17:49.545 --> 00:17:52.314
  • Doing marriage right comes back to a commitment you reaffirm
  • 00:17:52.314 --> 00:17:57.252
  • Every day.
  • 00:17:57.252 --> 00:17:58.620
  • Every marriage has its share of problems and challenges.
  • 00:17:58.620 --> 00:18:02.724
  • You and your wife will change with the passing of time.
  • 00:18:02.724 --> 00:18:07.896
  • Do your wives ever feel like you dated dr. jekyll and married
  • 00:18:07.896 --> 00:18:11.533
  • Mr. hyde?
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  • Do your husbands feel like you went to bed with sleeping beauty
  • 00:18:13.902 --> 00:18:16.905
  • And woke up with a wicked witch of the west?
  • 00:18:16.905 --> 00:18:21.243
  • Like, what happened?
  • 00:18:21.243 --> 00:18:22.578
  • There's actually an old arab proverb that says this, quote,
  • 00:18:22.578 --> 00:18:26.715
  • "marriage begins with a prince kissing an angel and ends up
  • 00:18:26.715 --> 00:18:30.853
  • With a bald-headed man looking across the table at a fat lady."
  • 00:18:30.853 --> 00:18:37.459
  • Oh, brutal.
  • 00:18:37.459 --> 00:18:39.628
  • It's true for our marriage, not my wife's part, but she ended up
  • 00:18:39.628 --> 00:18:43.298
  • With a bald man, didn't she?
  • 00:18:43.298 --> 00:18:46.034
  • But we changed.
  • 00:18:46.034 --> 00:18:47.369
  • You know, things happen, but it's that commitment that we
  • 00:18:47.369 --> 00:18:51.106
  • Have made.
  • 00:18:51.106 --> 00:18:52.474
  • Dating reveals the best of you.
  • 00:18:52.474 --> 00:18:54.810
  • Marriage reveals the worst of you.
  • 00:18:54.810 --> 00:18:58.013
  • All spouses are going to disagree.
  • 00:18:58.013 --> 00:19:01.383
  • "well, we just disagree all the time.
  • 00:19:01.383 --> 00:19:03.252
  • We have irreconcilable differences."
  • 00:19:03.252 --> 00:19:05.287
  • Oh, please.
  • 00:19:05.287 --> 00:19:06.889
  • As i've said so many times, i've had irreconcilable differences
  • 00:19:06.889 --> 00:19:10.626
  • With my wife for almost 50 years, and she with me.
  • 00:19:10.626 --> 00:19:14.496
  • Listen, you need to press on.
  • 00:19:14.496 --> 00:19:16.031
  • You can get through it because the best is yet to come.
  • 00:19:16.031 --> 00:19:19.735
  • "well, how do you know that, greg?"
  • 00:19:19.735 --> 00:19:21.904
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:19:21.904 --> 00:19:23.238
  • A study was done in couples who said they were having conflict
  • 00:19:23.238 --> 00:19:27.009
  • But decided to stay together.
  • 00:19:27.009 --> 00:19:28.911
  • Two-thirds of the unhappily married spouses who stayed
  • 00:19:28.911 --> 00:19:32.281
  • Married reported their marriages were happy five years later.
  • 00:19:32.281 --> 00:19:37.486
  • Most striking, long-term studies demonstrate that two-thirds of
  • 00:19:37.486 --> 00:19:41.490
  • Those unhappy marriages out there will become happy within
  • 00:19:41.490 --> 00:19:45.160
  • Five years if the people stay married and don't get divorced.
  • 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:50.032
  • So just hang in there.
  • 00:19:50.032 --> 00:19:52.267
  • No, fairytale marriages are not possible, but biblical, blessed,
  • 00:19:52.267 --> 00:19:59.041
  • Successful marriages are, but you need to apply effort and
  • 00:19:59.041 --> 00:20:05.214
  • Tend that garden and maintain and tune up that car and give
  • 00:20:05.214 --> 00:20:10.852
  • Attention to your spouse.
  • 00:20:10.852 --> 00:20:12.354
  • Last point, number six, i need the power of the holy spirit to
  • 00:20:12.354 --> 00:20:16.992
  • Be a good spouse, amen?
  • 00:20:16.992 --> 00:20:20.162
  • I need, you need, we need the power of the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:20.162 --> 00:20:25.701
  • Before paul says to husbands "love your wife as christ loves
  • 00:20:25.701 --> 00:20:29.137
  • The church," before paul says, "wives submit unto your husbands
  • 00:20:29.137 --> 00:20:33.642
  • And respect your husbands," he says this in ephesians 5,
  • 00:20:33.642 --> 00:20:37.246
  • Verse 18.
  • 00:20:37.246 --> 00:20:38.580
  • "don't be drunk with wine, because it will ruin your life.
  • 00:20:38.580 --> 00:20:41.984
  • Instead, be filled with the holy spirit, singing psalms and hymns
  • 00:20:41.984 --> 00:20:45.887
  • And spiritual songs and making music in your heart to the lord,
  • 00:20:45.887 --> 00:20:49.858
  • And give thanks for everything to god the father in the name of
  • 00:20:49.858 --> 00:20:52.761
  • Our lord, jesus christ," don't miss this verse, "and further,
  • 00:20:52.761 --> 00:20:55.931
  • Submit to one another out of reverence for christ."
  • 00:20:55.931 --> 00:21:00.535
  • The filling of the holy spirit will empower you to be a
  • 00:21:00.535 --> 00:21:04.606
  • Godly spouse.
  • 00:21:04.606 --> 00:21:06.541
  • I cannot love my wife as christ loves the church in my
  • 00:21:06.541 --> 00:21:11.513
  • Own strength.
  • 00:21:11.513 --> 00:21:13.348
  • Ladies, you cannot submit to and respect your husband as you
  • 00:21:13.348 --> 00:21:19.121
  • Ought to without the help of the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:19.121 --> 00:21:22.724
  • God will give you this power to put the needs of your mate
  • 00:21:22.724 --> 00:21:27.763
  • First, and listen, we overly mystify the filling of the holy
  • 00:21:27.763 --> 00:21:32.768
  • Spirit, even the way we talk about it, "and you need to be
  • 00:21:32.768 --> 00:21:36.938
  • Filled with the holy spirit."
  • 00:21:36.938 --> 00:21:42.244
  • Okay, whatever.
  • 00:21:42.244 --> 00:21:45.147
  • I don't think it's that complex.
  • 00:21:45.147 --> 00:21:47.616
  • You can be laying in bed in the morning and say, "lord, just
  • 00:21:47.616 --> 00:21:50.185
  • Fill me with the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:50.185 --> 00:21:51.720
  • Help me to be a more godly husband, a more godly wife, a
  • 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.790
  • More godly parent, a more godly single person.
  • 00:21:54.790 --> 00:21:57.492
  • Lord, help me to be a godly man or woman."
  • 00:21:57.492 --> 00:22:02.531
  • And if you're a spirit-filled person, you will be a
  • 00:22:02.531 --> 00:22:05.834
  • Submitting person.
  • 00:22:05.834 --> 00:22:07.369
  • Oh, we don't like that word submit, do we?
  • 00:22:07.369 --> 00:22:10.439
  • We hate it because we think it speaks of subservience and
  • 00:22:10.439 --> 00:22:14.376
  • Slavery, but that's not the proper understanding.
  • 00:22:14.376 --> 00:22:18.080
  • We're thinking culturally, not biblically.
  • 00:22:18.080 --> 00:22:21.116
  • Let me put it another way.
  • 00:22:21.116 --> 00:22:22.617
  • If you're spirit-filled, you'll think of others more
  • 00:22:22.617 --> 00:22:25.420
  • Than yourself.
  • 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:26.788
  • Here's the problem.
  • 00:22:26.788 --> 00:22:28.123
  • I walk in the marriage, and i say, "how are you gonna
  • 00:22:28.123 --> 00:22:29.791
  • Fulfill me?
  • 00:22:29.791 --> 00:22:31.126
  • How are you gonna make me happy?
  • 00:22:31.126 --> 00:22:32.928
  • What are you gonna do for me?
  • 00:22:32.928 --> 00:22:34.696
  • What have you done for me lately?"
  • 00:22:34.696 --> 00:22:36.765
  • To quote a song title.
  • 00:22:36.765 --> 00:22:38.600
  • "it's all about me.
  • 00:22:38.600 --> 00:22:39.935
  • It's you doing this for me."
  • 00:22:39.935 --> 00:22:41.303
  • And then the other person has the same attitude.
  • 00:22:41.303 --> 00:22:43.672
  • "what are you gonna do for me?"
  • 00:22:43.672 --> 00:22:45.006
  • Well, in time, we conflict, and the marriage falls apart because
  • 00:22:45.006 --> 00:22:49.411
  • Of selfishness, so if you want a successful marriage, you need to
  • 00:22:49.411 --> 00:22:53.315
  • Be filled with the holy spirit and live a life of selflessness.
  • 00:22:53.315 --> 00:22:57.986
  • That's what paul is saying.
  • 00:22:57.986 --> 00:22:59.354
  • Submit to one another in the reverence of god.
  • 00:22:59.354 --> 00:23:02.224
  • Before a single word is said to a wife about respecting and
  • 00:23:02.224 --> 00:23:06.661
  • Submitting to her husband, before a word is said about
  • 00:23:06.661 --> 00:23:09.731
  • Husbands loving his wife, paul says submit to one another, and
  • 00:23:09.731 --> 00:23:14.169
  • The word submit means put the other's needs first.
  • 00:23:14.169 --> 00:23:17.439
  • It's not about superiority or inferiority.
  • 00:23:17.439 --> 00:23:20.509
  • It's about sacrifice.
  • 00:23:20.509 --> 00:23:22.644
  • Another way to translate it is supporting one another in the
  • 00:23:22.644 --> 00:23:27.149
  • Reverence of god.
  • 00:23:27.149 --> 00:23:28.517
  • So--i want you to be the best version of you that you can be.
  • 00:23:28.517 --> 00:23:33.388
  • I'm your biggest cheerleader.
  • 00:23:33.388 --> 00:23:35.190
  • I'm in your corner, wife, husband.
  • 00:23:35.190 --> 00:23:38.293
  • I'll tell you the truth when no one else will, but i also want
  • 00:23:38.293 --> 00:23:42.264
  • To encourage you and help you be the man or the woman that god
  • 00:23:42.264 --> 00:23:45.734
  • Has created you to be.
  • 00:23:45.734 --> 00:23:47.702
  • We have to find our place, and again, as i said earlier, stop
  • 00:23:47.702 --> 00:23:51.273
  • Reading each other's mail.
  • 00:23:51.273 --> 00:23:53.775
  • Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart and you have seen
  • 00:23:57.979 --> 00:24:02.651
  • Your need for jesus christ.
  • 00:24:02.651 --> 00:24:04.586
  • Jesus christ is the son of god, who came from heaven to
  • 00:24:04.586 --> 00:24:09.057
  • This earth.
  • 00:24:09.057 --> 00:24:10.425
  • He was born in a manger.
  • 00:24:10.425 --> 00:24:11.960
  • He died on a cross.
  • 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:13.662
  • He rose again from the dead, why?
  • 00:24:13.662 --> 00:24:15.697
  • Because he loves you, and he wants a relationship with you.
  • 00:24:15.697 --> 00:24:19.334
  • Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
  • 00:24:19.334 --> 00:24:21.470
  • I don't wanna be a religious person.
  • 00:24:21.470 --> 00:24:23.472
  • I don't think you wanna be one either.
  • 00:24:23.472 --> 00:24:25.273
  • I'm talking about relationship with god.
  • 00:24:25.273 --> 00:24:28.944
  • Jesus who died and rose again stands at the door of your life
  • 00:24:28.944 --> 00:24:33.448
  • And he knocks, and he says if you'll hear his voice and open
  • 00:24:33.448 --> 00:24:36.818
  • The door, he will come in.
  • 00:24:36.818 --> 00:24:38.220
  • Question.
  • 00:24:38.220 --> 00:24:39.588
  • Have you asked jesus christ to come and live inside of you?
  • 00:24:39.588 --> 00:24:42.557
  • You might say, "well, i think so.
  • 00:24:42.557 --> 00:24:43.925
  • I'm not sure."
  • 00:24:43.925 --> 00:24:45.293
  • Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle of the
  • 00:24:45.293 --> 00:24:47.329
  • Night, do you think you would be aware of it?
  • 00:24:47.329 --> 00:24:49.865
  • 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.
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  • 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: hey, greg laurie here. maybe you've seen this...
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  • This is called the "new believer's bible," and a number
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  • Of years ago, i wanted to do an edition of scripture with
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  • Commentary that would make the bible more accessible to someone
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  • Who's never read it before, like a new believer.
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  • But today we live, of course, in a digital world,
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  • So we've taken the curriculum from the "new believer's bible"
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  • And we've created this online community of people just like
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  • You who are studying the word of god together.
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  • By the way, this is free of charge, you can learn at
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  • Your own pace, but most importantly, you'll experience
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  • Than any two-edged sword, so i hope you'll take your phone
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  • Right now and join us online at harvest discipleship.
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