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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Battle For Marriage | February 5, 2026
- Life is sacred.
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- We know that
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- We're made in the image of god, and the sexual part of life
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- Is sacred. we've talked about that.
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- And marriage is the holy part that god has given us
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- As a provision for procreation,
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- A provision for pleasure, and a symbol
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- Of the relationship between the christian
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- And the bridegroom, which is the lord jesus christ.
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- Powerful, powerful, basic entity.
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- But marriage is under attack today.
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- Hello, i'm ed young.
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- Strong marriages, healthy families.
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- Don't happen by accident.
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- They are built on faith, commitment and obedience
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- To god's word found in the bible.
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- The bible offers practical guidance
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- For loving one another, resolving conflicts,
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- And building homes that reflect christ.
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- As we study scripture today,
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- My prayer is that god will encourage you
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- And equip you to strengthen your marriage and family
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- Through his everlasting truth.
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- Worldly winning will, family
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- Biblical principles that we'll be looking at together
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- Will help your marriage to sing in a broken world.
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- You'll have wholeness and meaning.
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- And i can tell you some.
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- Every day we seek
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- To let the biblical principles operate in your marriage,
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- In my marriage and your life, and in my life.
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- I'll tell you, the winning world with jesus
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- Christ will come more real and more vibrant
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- And will have more fire to it
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- Than you can imagine.
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- Welcome to the winning world family.
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- In mythology.
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- There's a story entitled.
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- When the mouse ate the cookie,
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- A mouse knocked
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- On the door of a home.
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- A boy looked out
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- And said, what do you want?
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- And the mouse said, all i want
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- Is a cookie.
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- And in this mythological story,
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- The mouse came and the boy gave him a cookie.
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- And he said, do you have some milk?
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- He went and poured him some milk.
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- He said, do you have a straw?
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- He went and got him a straw,
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- And the mouse said, i would also like to have a napkin.
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- And he went and got him a napkin.
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- And as the story in mythology goes.
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- Finally the mouse had eaten
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- Everything in the house and had eaten the house itself.
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- And the boy was in the cold
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- And froze to death.
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- When we become
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- Post-christian america,
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- And we're about that far away from it.
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- Pose christian america
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- Will not be enough.
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- All of a sudden, there will have to be an end
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- To christian america.
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- Because the mice are everywhere,
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- And they're seeking to redefine
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- Everything in our culture.
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- If you will think
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- And look at the major questions we're facing.
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- And the more ram it all deals
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- With sexuality
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- And how we handle this
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- Basic drive that's in every person,
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- Sexuality and in the battle of sexuality.
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- We have pulled out
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- The very front line of that battle,
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- And it's the battle for marriage.
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- Marriage,
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- Ladies and gentlemen, marriage
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- Is the foundation
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- Upon which all of civilization rest.
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- Let me say that again.
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- Marriage is the basic foundation
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- Upon which all civilization rest.
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- Genesis two, verse 22.
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- Eve was created
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- From the rib of adam, and that little verse says
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- That god took eve to adam.
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- Marriage.
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- First institution.
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- First word. the bottom line.
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- The foundational rock upon which everything else is built.
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- From marriage comes family
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- Comes life. life worth living.
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- Now let me go back and review marriage.
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- We've already looked at genesis.
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- God says we're to leave cleave.
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- Become one flesh with no shame.
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- Right? naked with no shame.
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- By the way, that naked with no shame.
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- Most of us.
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- Well, that means that your neck, the nakedness.
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- There isn't just a physical negative.
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- That's a little bitty thing.
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- The negatives.
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- There is vulnerability.
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- When you get married.
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- When i get married, we are vulnerable to the person
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- To whom we're married.
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- Male and female.
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- And in marriage, you have the best
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- Training for selfless love you'll ever get.
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- Marriage trains
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- Us for selfless love.
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- And that's important.
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- It is in that environment, by the way,
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- That we really see all of our sin.
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- I can explain away my sin.
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- I can rationalize.
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- I can play the game.
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- I can be a phony and we can go through life.
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- Sin. my hypocritical.
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- Two people know us.
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- But in marriage
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- We see ourselves and those who do not see themselves
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- And their shortcomings in marriage.
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- That's what it means to be transparent.
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- To be open marriage is a mystery, paul said.
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- It is training and selfless love,
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- And it's understanding the problems,
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- The inequities, the hypocrisy in your life, in my life.
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- It will be exposed.
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- That's what it needs to be open and naked with your mate.
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- Now jesus talks about marriage.
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- He expounds on the genesis passage.
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- Look at it in mark chapter number ten,
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- Beginning with verse six
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- From the beginning of creation.
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- God made them male and female.
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- God gave us gender.
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- For this reason a man shall leave
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- His father and his mother.
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- God gave us marriage,
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- And the two shall become one flesh.
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- God gave us sex,
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- And they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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- God gave us a new identity.
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- What?
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- Therefore, god has joined together.
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- Let no man put asunder.
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- God has given us exclusivity.
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- This is all involved in the beautiful,
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- Glorious mystery of marriage.
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- Look what god has given us.
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- It is a wonderful thing and is a sacred thing.
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- But what happened to so many marriages?
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- Sometimes it's infidelity.
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- It's adultery destroys so many marriages.
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- You say, what's the leading problem
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- Of the destruction of marriage today
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- That leads to that deadly
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- Thing called divorce?
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- By the way, divorce is suicide.
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- Do you know that? it's suicide.
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- Because when two become one flesh.
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- Okay, there's a new person,
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- And we're that you person dies through divorce.
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- That is suicide.
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- Let me say there are grounds for divorce.
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- Make no mistake about it.
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- Biblical grounds for divorce.
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- And where there are grounds for divorce in the bible,
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- There's always grounds for remarriage
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- When they're biblical grounds.
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- But let me say that divorce
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- Comes because sometimes of money,
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- Sometimes of immorality.
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- Let me tell you something about divorce.
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- We've heard for a long time.
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- Well, divorces are 50, 50 divorces.
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- The truth is, today, fewer people are getting married.
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- In 1960, 70.2% of the people
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- Who were of a marriageable age got married.
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- 1960 72% plus got married today.
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- And the past 5 or 6 years,
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- About 51% of those
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- Who are in marriageable age get married.
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- Isn't that interesting?
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- Wonder why they do so much?
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- People are living together and are not married.
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- They're cohabitating together and they're not married.
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- In fact, more children are brought up in homes.
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- Well, the man and the woman are not married than in homes
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- Where there is a divorce.
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- The cohabitation has double
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- Since the turn of the century,
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- Divorce from those who were married from 2000.
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- Folly.
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- It is is about
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- Two thirds remain married.
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- One third getting a divorce. isn't that interesting?
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- And that one third to get a divorce.
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- We've seen in some polls.
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- Well, 50% of them are christians.
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- But the
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- Name christian, the title christian.
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- And recently, i don't know what was
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- Pew research a barner he said it.
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- They said, let's look at that of the era.
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- How many divorces take place
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- Where the couples worship together?
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- Worship together?
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- Not just the general broad title.
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- I've been baptized. i'm a man.
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- Oh, no, not just a general.
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- How many divorces take place out of that
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- One third that gets divorced today?
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- That are that they worship together.
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- And this new survey said 3%.
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- Did you hear that? 3%.
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- Because if we worship
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- Corporately on the weekend,
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- That leads us to believe there's worship
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- Privately together.
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- Sometimes the rest of the week, it is a beautiful word
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- About what it means to worship god regularly
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- And faithfully in his house and in our homes.
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- So interesting.
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- But on the other side of the coin,
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- There's a bill before
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- The legislature in mexico,
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- And there are some in our government.
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- Now, are you proposing that if marriage
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- Is simply a contract?
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- Let's start off with the minimum of two years.
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- You know, that's right, a contract.
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- And it'll be a contract of two years.
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- You could have a five year contract.
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- It could have provisions for a renewal.
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- If it's simply a civic matter.
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- Let's just sign up for a certain time
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- And see if we want to renew.
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- Some people think, boy,
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- That would be a great idea.
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- So we have a whole new world of marriage.
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- But marriage is a gift of god.
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- It is a sacred thing.
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- And i'll tell you something, ladies and gentlemen,
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- When we work at it, and we grow,
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- And we give the
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- Highest priority of the happiness of our mate,
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- And our mate gives the highest priority to us.
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- You have a marriage that sings, that works.
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- That is alive,
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- That is holy.
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- Life is sacred.
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- We know that
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- We're made in the image of god, and the sexual part of life
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- Is sacred. we've talked about that.
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- And marriage is the holy part that god has given us
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- As a provision for procreation,
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- A provision for pleasure, and a symbol
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- Of the relationship between the christian
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- And the bridegroom, which is the lord jesus christ.
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- Powerful, powerful, basic entity.
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- But marriage is under attack today.
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- It has been redefined.
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- Let me begin by saying
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- 2013,
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- The all wise supreme court
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- Found in the 14th amendment,
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- Something that you have to be
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- A legal gymnast to figure out.
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- But when you can read something
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- And you can make it mean anything, you want it to mean
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- In post-modern understanding.
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- They found
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- The provision for gay marriage.
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- Amazing, amazing, astounding.
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- And let me say up front,
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- There is no such thing
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- As gay marriage.
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- It doesn't exist.
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- Gay is not a modifier
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- Of marriage.
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- Life doesn't always unfold the way we expect.
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- There are moments filled with uncertainty.
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- Challenges that test our strength.
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- And days
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- It's a daily reminder that you are never alone
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- God's way for
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- Marriage and life and sexuality is a way
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- That really, genuinely, always works.
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- Always functioning properly
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- And beautifully.
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- So then you have intellectual acceptance.
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- No social acceptance. yes.
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- Legal acceptance.
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- Certainly
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- Intellectual acceptance. no.
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- Because we have principles by which we go, for example,
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- Let's say that you came to me and said, your friend,
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- I accept you
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- Legally, accept you socially, and you say, you know,
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- If you put sand in your gas tank,
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- It will really help your car to run.
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- It will be a super thing.
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- Now, intellectually,
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- I don't think this would work.
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- No, no, no, i said, you know, i'm not going to do that.
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- Well, it's it's a wonderful thing.
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- I put a little sand in my gas tank.
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- My car is running better than it ever has before.
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- I say no, intellectually, i can agree with that.
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- I can't accept that intellectually.
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- And then you say, well, you know, you are
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- Welcome to do that.
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- That's your choice.
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- He puts saying, you tank if you want to, that's fine.
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- But i have reason to think if you put keep on putting
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- Sand in the gas tank, you know what will happen.
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- That filter will gradually get clogged.
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- Little filtered.
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- It protects the rest of the motor.
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- And that filter is clogged,
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- As is getting clogged. your
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- Gas per miles will begin to slow down
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- And your motor will not be function.
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- But when it's totally club bang,
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- That car will stop.
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- This is the way it is.
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- We would say to those who are engaging in a lifestyle
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- Is contrary to the principle of god.
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- Whatever that lifestyle may be,
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- Whatever full immorality it would be,
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- You're putting sand in the gas tank of your life, immorality
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- In the gas tank, your life.
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- It may seem good, it may feel good,
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- It may look good, but eventually your life
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- Will be clogged up and you will not function.
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- As god almighty has designed you to function.
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- So this is the way that we have to live.
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- Acceptance,
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- But not affirmation.
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- Love.
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- And then we separate the lifestyle
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- From the life.
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- In other words,
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- We love the sinner
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- But hate the sin.
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- But in the lbgt lifestyle,
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- They define themselves by what they do.
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- And we would say
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- To anyone in this lifestyle, you're more than that.
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- You're you're bigger than that.
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- We love you as a person,
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- But we do not approve your lifestyle.
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- It's like putting sand in the gas tank
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- In a period of time.
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- It will destroy your health.
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- It'll destroy your mentality.
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- It'll destroy you acceptance.
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- And you'll be in big trouble in this life.
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- And even, of course, with god.
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- I would say that to an adulterer.
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- I'd say that to a liar.
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- I'd say that anybody and i would say that
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- We don't need to be identified by what we do.
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- God loves us and we're to love one
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- Another as to the person that we are.
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- And that's so important we make that particular
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- Distinction. now.
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- It's difficult
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- For all of us.
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- We're all sinners.
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- And by the way, these no
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- Sins are no worse than my sins or your sin.
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- If my sin is that of anger, it may be just a deadly
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- In god's sight, no more so than the sins of the flesh.
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- The difference of sexual sins
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- They take place inside your body.
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- The bible says it is an inside kind of thing.
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- Whereas other sins are out here.
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- That's the problem with sexual sin.
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- Whatever form it may take.
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- Remember, we've already established.
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- Let me say it again that in marriage there is freedom.
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- There is celebration.
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- And every
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- Other kind of sexual relationship is pernida
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- And is for hidden by god
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- Every other kind of sexual relationship.
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- Marriage, celebration, freedom.
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- Every other sexual relationship is pernida forbidden by god.
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- But let me tell you something.
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- Don't.
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- In the process of all this battle in which
- 00:20:14.891 --> 00:20:17.227
- We're in, it's a battle for marriage.
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- The goal is to eliminate marriage altogether.
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- Make no mistake about it.
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- It's like the mouse
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- Who ate the cookie.
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- Keep on going.
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- Keep on going
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- Till the whole moral climate is totally changed.
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- And we.
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- No, no, no go have a judeo christian country.
- 00:20:42.052 --> 00:20:45.355
- We have a country that is godless.
- 00:20:45.355 --> 00:20:48.291
- That is nothing but humanism.
- 00:20:48.925 --> 00:20:51.828
- And if nothing of it feels good,
- 00:20:51.828 --> 00:20:53.663
- It must be all right mentality.
- 00:20:53.663 --> 00:20:56.499
- But that's not how marriage is meant to be.
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- This week,
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- A friend i've known for a
- 00:21:02.138 --> 00:21:03.306
- Long time from south carolina called me
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- And he brought me up to date man.
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- He's he's 91 years old.
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- He was married
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- For 65 years.
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- His wife died a few years back.
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- He was telling me about all of his children,
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- Whom i knew and who they married and their children
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- And our great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
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- He had almost 40 in that number.
- 00:21:29.466 --> 00:21:31.668
- And it is beautiful to hear just almost
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- Every one of them are walking with god in jesus christ.
- 00:21:34.204 --> 00:21:37.173
- I said, what a legacy you have, russell.
- 00:21:37.173 --> 00:21:40.543
- And he told me about his wife
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- And said, she died a few years ago,
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- The day after our 65th wedding anniversary.
- 00:21:47.650 --> 00:21:50.887
- Said she was in the hospital and said, ever
- 00:21:51.755 --> 00:21:53.690
- You were married?
- 00:21:53.690 --> 00:21:54.491
- I took out a long stem red rose.
- 00:21:54.491 --> 00:21:57.427
- He said, i took 65 long stem, red
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- Rose and a face up to her hospital,
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- He said, almost killed me carrying it up.
- 00:22:04.234 --> 00:22:07.303
- He said i gave it to her
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- And she smiled and said, you know, russell,
- 00:22:10.073 --> 00:22:14.043
- I'm just ready to go home.
- 00:22:14.611 --> 00:22:17.046
- He said, honey,
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- If you're ready to go home, go home
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- Next day.
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- She graduated.
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- That reminded me
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- Of a classic story along the same line.
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- I put it in my book on the ten commandments of marriage
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- And it's a wonderful story about another couple.
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- They were friends, and all the way through school
- 00:22:40.270 --> 00:22:42.872
- And high school, they became boyfriend and girlfriend,
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- And he wanted to marry her and her dad said not until
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- She graduates from high school.
- 00:22:49.813 --> 00:22:51.781
- So she graduated at 10:00 in the morning,
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- And they got married at 7:00 that night.
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- And it was the kind of couple, when you'd see
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- One, you'd see the other.
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- But they they played together.
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- They laughed together.
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- They they traveled together.
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- They were in business together in the car business.
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- And they just did everything.
- 00:23:09.732 --> 00:23:11.534
- They were inseparable.
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- They were like the dynamic duo.
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- They lived in arizona, and
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- They had a magnificent life, a magnificent family.
- 00:23:18.875 --> 00:23:22.846
- And they, they they were just in harmony.
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- They were a team.
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- Totally won a team.
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- But they'd been married
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- For 72 years,
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- And they were in a catastrophic automobile accident.
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- Both of them crushed.
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- Critical condition.
- 00:23:40.763 --> 00:23:42.532
- They were in the hospital, and the nurses and doctors
- 00:23:42.532 --> 00:23:45.735
- Would go see her and she'd say, well, how is he doing?
- 00:23:45.735 --> 00:23:48.905
- Go see him. i'm going to be all right.
- 00:23:48.905 --> 00:23:51.174
- They'd go see him.
- 00:23:51.174 --> 00:23:52.208
- He'd say, no, no, get out of here.
- 00:23:52.208 --> 00:23:54.477
- Go see her. how is she doing?
- 00:23:54.477 --> 00:23:56.546
- And when they realized
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- That both of them were on the very edge of death,
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- They put them in the same room, side by side, in a bed.
- 00:24:01.618 --> 00:24:06.489
- And these are
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- Two that had cheered for the university of arizona.
- 00:24:07.924 --> 00:24:10.393
- They'd been born. they were just a team.
- 00:24:10.393 --> 00:24:12.595
- And the media, they got side by side.
- 00:24:12.595 --> 00:24:14.464
- Bang. they started holding hands,
- 00:24:14.464 --> 00:24:17.367
- Holding hands.
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- He died first.
- 00:24:20.036 --> 00:24:22.572
- The families, they thought, your dad is gone
- 00:24:22.572 --> 00:24:25.708
- And the sun's out.
- 00:24:26.142 --> 00:24:27.243
- No, no, no. look, look.
- 00:24:27.243 --> 00:24:28.811
- His heart monitor is still beating.
- 00:24:28.811 --> 00:24:32.015
- He's alive.
- 00:24:32.348 --> 00:24:33.683
- Nurse said no.
- 00:24:33.683 --> 00:24:35.051
- They're holding hands so tightly.
- 00:24:35.051 --> 00:24:38.054
- So tightly that her heartbeat
- 00:24:38.054 --> 00:24:41.324
- Is going all the way into his heart.
- 00:24:41.324 --> 00:24:44.227
- And that's the reason his monitor is still beating.
- 00:24:44.227 --> 00:24:48.331
- An hour later.
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- An hour later,
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- She died.
- 00:24:53.603 --> 00:24:56.172
- And the son said at their memorial service,
- 00:24:56.172 --> 00:24:58.908
- A beautiful thing.
- 00:24:58.908 --> 00:24:59.809
- He said, you know, my dad always said,
- 00:24:59.809 --> 00:25:03.212
- A good woman is worth waiting for.
- 00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:08.484
- And he said, god took him home first,
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- And he
- 00:25:13.923 --> 00:25:14.591
- Waited right outside of heaven
- 00:25:14.591 --> 00:25:17.427
- Until my mom got there.
- 00:25:17.927 --> 00:25:21.764
- And they went in together.
- 00:25:22.332 --> 00:25:26.069
- And met jesus.
- 00:25:26.402 --> 00:25:36.379
- That is god's
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- Design.
- 00:25:41.050 --> 00:25:43.920
- For marriage.
- 00:25:44.287 --> 00:25:47.790
- I wrote standing on the promises
- 00:25:48.491 --> 00:25:50.493
- This little book, years ago, because life has a way
- 00:25:50.493 --> 00:25:54.063
- Of shaking us right to our very foundations.
- 00:25:54.063 --> 00:25:59.102
- We all face days when circumstances
- 00:25:59.102 --> 00:26:01.871
- Feel bigger than our faith, and the very ground
- 00:26:01.871 --> 00:26:05.008
- On which we stand seems to be shaking.
- 00:26:05.008 --> 00:26:07.844
- But over the years, i found there's
- 00:26:08.611 --> 00:26:10.680
- Something that never changes.
- 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:13.816
- God keeps his promises.
- 00:26:13.816 --> 00:26:16.119
- This book is designed to help you hold on to that truth
- 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:20.423
- Every single day, 24/7.
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- Standing on the promises is a 365 day
- 00:26:23.092 --> 00:26:26.929
- Devotional short, practical, rooted in scripture,
- 00:26:26.929 --> 00:26:31.534
- Created to meet you right where you are.
- 00:26:31.534 --> 00:26:35.071
- Whether you're starting your day or ending your day, or
- 00:26:35.071 --> 00:26:38.007
- Or just needing encouragement in the middle of your day,
- 00:26:38.007 --> 00:26:41.310
- Each reading reminds you
- 00:26:41.844 --> 00:26:43.446
- That god's word is reliable.
- 00:26:43.446 --> 00:26:46.516
- His presence is real.
- 00:26:47.016 --> 00:26:49.919
- His promises are working even when you can't
- 00:26:49.919 --> 00:26:52.889
- See the results yet,
- 00:26:52.889 --> 00:26:54.457
- And you don't know which promise to claim.
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- My prayer is that this book becomes a daily companion.
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- Strengthen your faith.
- 00:27:01.698 --> 00:27:03.032
- Restore your confidence, and helping you stand firm
- 00:27:03.032 --> 00:27:06.969
- No matter what comes your way.
- 00:27:06.969 --> 00:27:09.472
- I invite you to call the number on the screen and order
- 00:27:09.472 --> 00:27:12.542
- Standing on the promises today, and discover
- 00:27:12.542 --> 00:27:16.079
- The peace that surpasses all human understanding
- 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:20.183
- That comes from building your life
- 00:27:20.183 --> 00:27:22.652
- On god's un.
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- Changing word.
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