Ed Young - A Foundation of Marriage

May 26, 2025 | S25:E126

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - A Foundation of Marriage | May 26, 2025

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Pastor ed young: god has a plan for marriage.
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And i've discovered that every time we follow god's plan,
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It always works.
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There are positively no exceptions to that.
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And there are three kinds of marriages.
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There are bad marriages, there are okay marriage, okay
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Marriages, and there are great marriages.
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If you're not married, what kind of marriage would you
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Like to have?
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If you are married, what kind of marriage would you like to have?
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So we have to decide.
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And so god, in his clarity-- people always say, "a lot of the
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Bible i don't understand."
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That's not your problem.
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The problem that you and i have in the bible is the part
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We do understand.
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So it's very clear.
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God has given us a formula, a design, a dream, a way in which
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A marriage, marriages, can be all that he designed
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For them to become.
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And so we look back and see the essential relationship.
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There's no other human relationship that is greater
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Than marriage.
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Certainly our relationship with god in jesus christ would be
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First, but marriage is absolutely there.
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Nobody here as humans will make a more profound, important
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Decision in your life by saying, "i do and i will."
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"i now pronounce you--" that has pre-eminence over
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Everything else.
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So let's just look back and see the history a little bit.
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Let's go to the book of genesis.
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Genesis chapter number 1 tells us what god did.
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In the beginning, god.
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Let there be. let there be.
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Let there be. let there be.
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And he had seven "let there be's" and he said every time,
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"it is good."
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And the seventh one, he said, "it is very good."
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And then we see the beautiful, beautiful story.
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And god said, "it's not good for man to be alone."
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And adam says, "i sure get that."
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He said, "i will make a helper suitable for him."
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Now, the females get upset at the word "helper," but the word
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"helper" in the hebrew means that something is missing.
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It's the rest of that which should be there.
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That's a better translation, not some subservient.
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It is something that will be there.
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It's something that is missing.
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And then he said, "i will make a helper,"
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That part that is missing.
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"now the lord god had formed out of the ground all the wild
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Animals and all the birds of the sea.
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And he brought them to the man to see he would name them, and
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Whatever the man called the living creatures,
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That was a name.
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And so the man gave the name to all the livestock, and the birds
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In the sky, and the wild animals.
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But adam, no suitable helper," the rest of something,
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"was found.
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So the lord god called man to fall into a deep sleep, and
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While he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then
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Closed up the place with flesh.
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Then the lord god made a woman from the rib.
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He had taken out of man and he brought her to man.
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And adam said--" notice, god brought that woman to man.
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Ladies, god brought your husband to you.
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Men, god brought your wife to you.
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Same thing.
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The man said, "eureka!
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That's the rest of me.
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This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, and she
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Shall be called woman."
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By the way, what is the purpose of all this, of creation,
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All the universe?
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What is the purpose of all the animals?
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What is the climax of all this magnificence that has come
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Into being?
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Ex nihilo, out of nothing, god's creative act.
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What is the purpose? here it is.
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Guess what? marriage.
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Marriage.
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You say, "well, i'll doubt that."
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Then you don't know your bible.
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Marriage, we've already discovered, begins right here in
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Genesis 1. ends up the marriage feast of the lamb
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In revelation, right?
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And we know this particular plan for marriage is repeated in the
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Bible by jesus in the sermon on the mount in matthew 5,
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Matthew 18.
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He comes back and deals with it again in ephesians 5. and all
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The way through the bible, there's marriage, and marriage,
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And marriage, and marriage, and marriage.
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Now, those of you who are single, just hold on.
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We're not going to cover every relationship.
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We'll get to that very clearly, what that role is, so don't get
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Bent out of joint.
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We're talking about relationships, and the highest,
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And most sacred, and beautiful, and magnificent relationship god
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Has given to us is marriage.
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And we can follow the formula, the plan, and the design.
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And when we do, guess what?
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It works every single time.
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I was speaking last night and i got carried away, and i said,
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"look, if anybody who is married follows this formula, both
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Partners are christians, and your marriage doesn't sing, and
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Work, and soar, i will personally go find $100,000 and
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Write you a check, so you'll make some quick money."
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And i wish i could say $1 million or $10 million, because
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I am confident, i know beyond words.
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So you can have a bad marriage, an okay marriage, or you can
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Have a great marriage that god designed.
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You say, "well, i bounce between one and one."
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No, no, no, under the great marriage doesn't mean everything
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Is always violins and roses.
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I'm not saying that, but i'm saying your marriage will be
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Bountiful, and beautiful, and growing, and significant, and it
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Will be the center point of your life if we do it god's way.
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Now, we have to decide.
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Some people say, "well, it's too late for me."
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No, it's not, not by god's grace and by god's power.
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So what is this formula?
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Let's look at it. it's right here.
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"she shall be taken out of man, and that is why a man leaves his
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Father and his mother."
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The first thing we have to do, we have to leave.
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We have to leave your parent, you see?
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Leave father, leave your mother, and what does that mean?
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It means in marriage there has to be an exclusivity.
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It's an exclusive thing.
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It's a private thing.
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It's you and me, babe.
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Exclusivity is a part of it.
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You leave. what does it mean to leave?
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You leave your parents, all other relationship.
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You have your parents, you have other relationship, but the
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Number one relationship, there's nothing challenging it, so you
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Have to leave the financial support you have for
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Your parents, hello.
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Doesn't mean parents do not help, but it means that parents
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Back up and let those married children begin to fend for
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Themselves as early as possible.
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You back up and let them decide.
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Don't make that house payment.
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Don't buy that car.
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That'd be my recommendation.
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Back up. let there be some struggle.
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Let there be some discipline financially.
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Don't overtake that.
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There is exceptions here for a while, but that is what we must
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Do as parents, as grandparents.
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Back up. back up.
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You have to back up emotionally.
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I heard a marriage tape this week.
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I just flipped it in and the story was told that this young
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Couple got married.
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Boy, they were having a great time.
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It was perfect.
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It was ken and barbie and the bells were ringing.
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They had everything going for them.
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And then they were married about six months and they had their
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First real fight, not physically,
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But the first real debate.
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And i'm telling you, it went from bad to worse.
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And she said, "i didn't know you when i married you."
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And he said, "i didn't realize you were like this."
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And they called old things, old grudges, old ideas.
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And it goes on and on, and she gets hysterical,
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And she's crying.
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And females, i want you to know your tears are like nuclear
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Weapons at this time.
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And she's crying, she's hysterical, and they go
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On and on.
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And it gets worse and worse, and, "i don't know how we can
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Live together.
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We didn't make it. let's get outta here."
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It gets overwhelming, until finally he said, "i'm outta
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Here," and he gets up, and goes out, and closes the door, and
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Starts walking up the street.
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And she's just outrageously upset, and she goes and gets a--
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Puts on a robe over her gown, and gets on some shoes, and gets
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In the car, and packs out of the car, and takes off down the
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Road, and sees him walking, and doesn't even look left or right,
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And she's going home.
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Though her mother and dad live about two hours from her,
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She's going home to mama.
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She takes off.
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She gets there about, oh, 4 a.m.
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In the morning, knowing her mother gets up early.
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She's still crying.
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She goes to the front door and she rings the bell.
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She rings the bell, banging on the door.
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"mama, mama, mama!"
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And mother comes to the door and pulls that little, you know, the
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Little screen, the little curtains back, and looks at her,
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And closes it.
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"oh, let me in, mother."
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And she--mother pulls it back, looks at her again, closes it.
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She's still hysterical on the porch.
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And the mother goes and cracks the door, and puts her foot in
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It, and says, "you've had your first fight, haven't you?"
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"oh yes, mother."
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She says, "go home and make it right."
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Bang, closes the door, that was it.
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About 10 or 12 years went by, this couple's marriage
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Was just blossoming.
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And she told a friend, "you know, the best thing that ever
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Happened in my marriage was when my mother slammed the door and
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Said, 'go home and make it right.'"
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You see, there's an exclusivity in marriage.
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An exclusivity in marriage.
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So we got to watch all the financial support, we've gotta
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Cut away the emotional support, and realize that god has put you
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Together, and you have the ability, particularly and
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Especially if you're in christ, to go through
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Every single crisis.
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Number one, leave.
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There is an exclusivity there that we must honor,
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First principle.
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The next principle in here, i want you to look at it very
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Accurately here in the account.
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It says, "this is why a man leaves his father and mother,"
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Because of marriage.
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And he says, "and is united with his wife and they
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Become one flesh."
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That's a singularity.
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In other words, two become one.
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And when this happens, here is the kingdom of self meeting
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The kingdom of self.
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Here is the kingdom of the male meeting the kingdom of the
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Female, and you mean they are to become one?
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And so, many times there is a kingdom battle that goes on for
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A long, long time, not understanding that both kingdoms
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Are to be dissolved and destroyed.
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And now they're to have one kingdom that is operating
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In marriage under the very kingdom of god.
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You see, two becoming one is a tremendous challenge.
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But when it happens, it is a magnificently beautiful thing
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To observe.
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Do you know the most powerful witness for christ that anybody
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Here can make, myself included, is to see when two become one?
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They become one flesh.
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And that's where we would say gorilla glue or super glue
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Comes into being.
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And we're so intertwined with one another in every way, in
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Every attitude, in every situation.
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And that marriage that is alive for god in christ is the most
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Powerful witness we can give to the world.
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There's nothing more powerful than that.
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To see a couple that's got it, that's glowing,
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It's a beautiful thing.
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That intertwineness.
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There's no secret agendas.
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There's nothing hidden there.
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There's nothing that the other one doesn't know.
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And there's no areas you can't talk about.
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"well, we can talk about everything but sex
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And finances."
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Oh no, two become one.
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And the reason we have so many tragic divorcees when people
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Have been married for a long time and there's that empty nest
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Is because they wake up and said, "who is this woman?
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Who is this man?"
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In the process of child rearing, and raising, and bringing them
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Up, they got where they didn't know each other and they didn't
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Give the highest priority to one another.
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It was the children. it was the job.
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It was other people. it was hobbies.
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It was activities.
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And they wake up and therefore they say, "i'm not gonna live
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The rest of my life with him or her."
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Bang, they're out of here.
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It happens all the time.
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Two become one, what a beautiful thing.
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Two become one, operating with the very principles of god
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In jesus christ.
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It works every time.
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It is a powerful witness to this world.
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They'll say, "boy, what do they have that we don't have?"
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What do they see?
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It's because there is an exclusivity there.
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It's because now there's a singularity there.
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And that is a magnificent thing and almost a rare thing in the
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Culture in which we live.
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Because some of us, even as christians, we use the bible
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As a hammer.
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Oh yeah, "oh, you don't know the bible like this."
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And we call out the word of god as if it's a sledgehammer to win
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Some kind of argument.
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We try to--some wives or husbands try to out-pious
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One another.
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You know any situations like that?
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Oh yeah, i do. i've seen it many times.
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There was a couple that got married, newlyweds.
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Both of them were christians.
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And so the bible teacher that the man had sat under for many
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Years asked this young guy, just married, "how are things goin'
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With your marriage?"
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He said, "wow, she's having a tough time
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Following my leadership.
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She's not really submissive to my leadership."
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And so the bible teacher says, "well, show me that verse
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In the bible."
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He said, "my goodness, you mean you don't know that verse?
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You've been teaching me the bible all these years.
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You know that verse."
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He said, "no, show me the verse that says that your wife needs
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To submit to your leadership."
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He said, "well, it's right here."
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And he went got his bible out of his desk and he said,
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"i want to read it to you.
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It's in ephesians. you know it.
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Chapter number 22, it says, 'wives, submit that--'"
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"wait a minute. wait a minute.
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What'd you say?" "it says, 'wives submit.'"
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He said, "no, no, that verse is not for you.
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Didn't you say it began with, 'wives.'
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Did you notice that?" "oh," he said.
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He said, "look at some of those verses that are for you."
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He got the bible.
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He said, "look here, 'husbands, love your wives just as christ
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Loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her
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Holy, cleansing her by the washing of water through
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The word.'"
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Said, "it sounds like a husband should be willing to die and
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Should be living a death-defying life in the presence of the
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Wife, doesn't it?"
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It sure does.
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Christ died for--"oh, that's how the husbands should live,
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A sacrificial, a crucified life to please the wife."
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"oh."
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Said, "here's another verse that's for you.
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Look at verse 28, 'in this very same way, husbands ought to love
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Their wives as their own bodies.'"
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Oh.
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"he who loves his wife loves himself.
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After all, no one ever hated his own body, but they feed and care
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For their body."
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Oh, that's for you.
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And said, "by the way, while you're talking about biblical
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Principles of marriage, did you notice that all these job
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Assignments for the husband and a wife begin with this verse?
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Look at this.
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He read to him verse 21, 'submit to one another out of reverence
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For christ.'"
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It all begins with wives submitting to their husband,
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The husband submitting to their wives.
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That's the pre-amble before you have the specific assignments
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Given to a husband and wife.
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So remember, we talked about that.
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We position ourself under.
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We position us under.
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The husband positions himself under the wife.
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The wife position herself under the husband.
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You see what i'm talking about?
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God's formula really works, folks.
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It cuts across pride and ego.
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It cuts across my desires, your desires.
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And the number one thing in life you don't want, the kingdom of
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Self versus the kingdom of self.
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You want the kingdom of selflessness operating in that
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Marriage, in that home, in that relationship.
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Did anybody ever have a marital debate, or dispute, on the basis
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Of, well, you're not being treated fairly.
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It was all the disputes come, "i'm not getting what i deserve.
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I'm not getting what ought to be here."
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It's self.
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And when a marriage begins to increasingly increase and become
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Selflessness, powerful things take place.
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This is not my idea.
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Don't say, "well, i don't agree with the preacher."
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It has nothing to do with me.
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It's just god's word.
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You can take it and throw it out and not believe it, or you can
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Put it into practice and fire will come into your marriage,
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Guaranteed every single time.
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So, we leave.
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Your marriage, my marriage becomes a touch of exclusivity.
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Man, it's--we leave.
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We become one.
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There's singularity.
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No hidden agenda.
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There's nothing backward, nothing back there.
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We deal, we talk about it all, and we become one.
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And then finally, look at the last part, and this has to do
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With transparency.
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"adam and eve were both naked and they felt no shame."
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Isn't that great?
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Transparent.
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Here i am, open, honest, with you, on your team,
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Cheering for you, cherishing you.
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Transparency.
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What would it be like to live in a family where everybody always
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Told the truth in love?
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What kind of family would that be?
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Well, that's the way it's gonna be in heaven.
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We have the opportunity to have a little touch of heaven right
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Now, folks.
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Just tell the truth in love.
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And your wife and your husband can reprogram how you see
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Yourself and how others have have seen you.
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There's a reprogramming there.
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If people have said, "well, you know, he's not very smart," but
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Your wife says, "hey, man, i know you've got a lot of stuff.
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I think you're very bright," it reprograms you.
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Somebody, says, "well, you know, you're sort of slow and you
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Don't really look too sharp."
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Your wife says, "man, you're the sharpest thing i've ever seen."
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Same way with a husband.
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We reprogram one another because there's that mirror out there
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In front.
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And we can tear down, we can build up, we can speak the truth
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In love, and there's an open and a candidness.
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All of a sudden, things happen in marriage.
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Wonderful things happen in marriage.
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So we got the formula there: leave, cleave,
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No shame, transparency.
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Well, how do we get there?
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Remember, i talked about you.
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In marriage, you talk, talk, talk, you listen, listen,
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Listen, then you pray, and pray, and pray.
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Marriage involves work and worship, worship and work, work
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And worship, and when a couple genuinely begins to pray
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Together, that marriage will soar every single time because
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You can't fool god.
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You may try to, but you can't.
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Now, somebody here, or many here, would say, "man, it's just
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Too late for me.
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My marriage is down in a pit.
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It's down there 20 feet deep."
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I'm going to tell you something.
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God has a rope that's 21 feet long, and he'll put it down
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In that pit.
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You say, "well, my marriage is-- well, you don't know.
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My marriage and my kids, my wife, i'm down in a pit
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1,000 feet deep."
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Let me tell you something.
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God has a rope that's 1,001 foot, and he'll put it down.
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I'm going to tell you something more exciting than that.
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He'll not only, by his grace, put that rope down for you if
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You're down in that pit, but jesus christ will go down that
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Rope just like he did in bethlehem, and meet you, and
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Bring you back up so you can have a marriage that begins to
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Flourish, and grow, and sing in harmony like god intends
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For it to do.
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Choices.
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Just keep on doing it the same old way.
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"my marriage is okay.
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I'm holding on.
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I'm here for the kids, or for a family, or reputation,
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Or whatever."
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Or you can begin, by his grace and by his power,
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To do it god's way.
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Ed: at some point, every marriage will run into
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Tough times.
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Whether it's miscommunication, money, sex, or in-laws, every
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Marriage goes through a rocky patch.
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Far too often, those rocky patches end up ruining otherwise
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Great, potentially super marriages.
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But it does not have to be that way.
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God designed marriage, and he gave us the keys to have a
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Marriage that works, a marriage that sizzles.
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In my book, "the ten commandments of marriage", i lay
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Out ten practical principles to make your marriage super.
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I hope that you will get this resource today.
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Screen or go online at winningwalk.org.
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Of this ministry.
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Marriage may not always be bliss, but with god's help, it
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Can be amazing.
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Ed: in today's study, we discover that god wants
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You and me to have a marriage that grows and flourishes.
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But the reality is that some marriages are in trouble.
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So how do you fix what seems unrepairable?
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The answer is to turn to god and ask him to give you
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A fresh beginning, a clean start,
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Even the most difficult of marriages.
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God offers his grace.
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Jesus went all the way to the cross for us.
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He could bring you
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And your marriage back to where you can begin again.
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The wonderful moment.
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And if you would like to speak with someone who could counsel
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And pray for
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You and your marriage, then call the number on your screen.
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Godly men and women are just waiting to take your call.
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And let me personally thank you for joining me today
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And make plans to tune in next time right here
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On the winning walk with jesus christ.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - A Foundation of Marriage

May 26, 2025 | S25:E126

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