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Ed Young - While You Were Sleeping

June 7, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - While You Were Sleeping
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - While You Were Sleeping | June 7, 2026
  • Marriage is a great mystery.
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  • Remember that verse is what the marriage is
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  • A great mystery, a great mystery.
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  • What is that great mystery?
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  • Okay.
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  • What is this
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  • Mysterious secret about marriage
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  • That some people miss and therefore it the
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  • What is this great mystery?
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  • Your mystery is
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  • Marriage is not a contract.
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  • It's not an agreement.
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  • It's not a settle on legal relationship.
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  • It is a covenant.
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  • Every marriage
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  • Faces challenges, but the difference
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  • Between surviving and thriving often comes down
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  • To what you and i choose to invest in our marriage.
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  • Today, we'll talk about how to strengthen and protect
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  • The most important human relationship you and i have.
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  • Because when we guard our marriage,
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  • You're really guarding something god himself created
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  • And designed.
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  • Listen, don't go away.
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  • Psalm 11:3 said,
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  • If the foundations
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  • Are being destroyed,
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  • What can the righteous do?
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  • You know, we have that conversation all the time.
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  • Do you realize that we look around us
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  • And the foundations are being destroyed,
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  • They're being burned up, they're being put to one side.
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  • And we always ask,
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  • What in the world can we do?
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  • If you're a christian, how can we stand against this
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  • In all the opposition that is coming
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  • And all the confusion we're part of?
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  • Isn't that a part of almost our daily conversation?
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  • If the foundations are being destroyed,
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  • What in the world
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  • Can the righteous do?
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  • A big assumption is assuming
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  • That you and i are righteous.
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  • Under the american flag,
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  • The united states has foundations.
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  • I think the fundamental statement would be
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  • One nation under god.
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  • Now, as we look
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  • Around, we discover we're not one nation.
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  • We're divided into many facets
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  • On the basis of many ideologies.
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  • We're not one nation today,
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  • And we're not under god.
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  • By and large, we are under the state.
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  • And the state, evidently
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  • With great intentionality, is keeping us.
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  • There's divided as possible.
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  • What are these foundations?
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  • Decoration.
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  • Independence.
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  • Constitution by laws.
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  • Systematically, as anybody who's awake knows,
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  • All of these foundational documents are being fretted
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  • And disregarded.
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  • We hold these truths
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  • To be self-evident.
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  • Let's stop right there.
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  • Self-evident?
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  • What does that mean?
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  • I'm standing here on the platform
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  • Before the second family.
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  • We're bounded by voss and woodway.
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  • Anybody want to debate with that?
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  • I mean, you're welcome.
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  • Stand up. we'll go at it.
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  • No, that is self-evident.
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  • Don't need a discussion.
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  • No need to bathe.
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  • No. no arguments.
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  • It's self-evident.
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  • We hold these truths, fundamental, foundational
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  • Truths to be self-evident,
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  • That all men are created equal.
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  • Now, it doesn't mean equal
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  • Opportunity, background, environment, etc.
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  • But it does mean basically, though, we're in a fallen world
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  • And there are some exceptions.
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  • All of us and all the planet have an equality in the sense
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  • That we were created, the image of god.
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  • And that primarily means we have the ability to choose.
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  • We're not determined
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  • By our instincts, by our dna.
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  • We are made in the image of god, and therefore
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  • All men and women are created equal.
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  • They are endowed,
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  • Given by the creator god
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  • With certain
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  • Unalienable or inalienable rights.
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  • And those words are interchangea
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  • To life
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  • And the united states of america.
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  • We've already seen around
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  • 60 million lives murdered in their mother's womb.
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  • What happened to life?
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  • You say?
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  • Well, we we've gone away with roe v wade.
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  • No, we've taken it down to the states,
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  • And i pray there'll be less.
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  • But we have no assurance of that.
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  • It's an inalienable right
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  • Given to us by god almighty.
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  • Life. liberty.
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  • Freedom.
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  • Can you speak freely on any subject
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  • And go anywhere and not have to?
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  • Oh, we better lower our voice because.
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  • The government is listening.
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  • Oh, yeah. oh, yeah.
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  • That's where we are, folks.
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  • Liberty.
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  • Now, we stole those two words
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  • From england in their basic documents.
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  • Life and liberty. and they say property.
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  • We said the pursuit of happiness.
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  • That's our basic foundational
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  • Documents under the flag.
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  • What's the next basic foundation?
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  • It is the family.
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  • It is marriage.
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  • Where did marriage come from?
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  • Just a social convenience that came through tradition
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  • And history.
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  • No, it came from biblical truth.
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  • In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth.
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  • And then you have
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  • The days of creation and following each day,
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  • God looked back on his creation and said,
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  • It is good.
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  • The second day it is good.
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  • The third day he looked back and said, it is good.
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  • The fourth day he looked back.
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  • He said, it is good.
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  • And then the the sixth day
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  • He looked back on all the creation.
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  • He said, it is very good.
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  • And then the seventh day he put in the sabbath,
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  • And we are a part of the new sabbath,
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  • The first day of the week,
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  • Because that was the day of resurrection.
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  • In the sabbath we are to
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  • Be engaged in recreation.
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  • That's worship.
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  • By the way,
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  • All the tv internet people, well, i worship better.
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  • No, no.
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  • The bible says we do not forsake
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  • The assembling of ourselves together.
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  • We need the proximity of the family
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  • In the body of christ.
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  • If you can go anywhere, you can get up and go to church.
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  • God's house on sunday morning.
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  • If you can't tune in,
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  • Tune in.
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  • God looked back.
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  • And what he'd done those days, those six days,
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  • And now the sabbath.
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  • On the sabbath, he said, it is very good.
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  • And then you begin in chapter two.
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  • Now let me explain this to some people.
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  • Chapter one tells us
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  • Basically in broad terms, what god did.
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  • Genesis chapter two tells us somehow of what he did.
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  • It is a commentary and a partial explanation
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  • Of chapter one.
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  • Some lunatics open the bible.
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  • Well, you got two different creation.
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  • Wake up and understand basic ways to interpret god's word.
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  • Number one, this is what he did.
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  • Number two and then we have the first.
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  • It is not good in the bible.
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  • Five.
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  • Good. six.
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  • Very good.
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  • Now we have. it is not good.
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  • What is not good for man to be alone?
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  • And then he had already instructed
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  • Mankind, man to have dominion.
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  • To have dominion,
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  • To be the steward of all of these fabulous, fabulous
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  • Things that god had brought out of nothing we call creation.
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  • And then he says, adam, it's got job for you.
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  • Name all the animals, name all the living creatures.
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  • And so they began walking in front of adam.
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  • And god had already told adam, i've got somebody for you.
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  • So can you imagine?
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  • As the parade came by, adam will say,
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  • Where's the rest of me?
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  • You know, i'm looking for that.
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  • And he began to name them.
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  • We have that word on a man up here.
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  • Or remember that
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  • That means a word that sounds like what it is.
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  • Hippopotamus came by.
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  • He said, you know, that thing looks like a hip
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  • Kind of fits, doesn't it?
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  • Don't have to be hippopotamus.
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  • A wolf came by. heard him.
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  • Well, that's what.
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  • What about.
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  • How did he name a fly?
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  • Well, he was moving through the air.
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  • You know, we.
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  • All the names begin to fit.
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  • What a tremendous assignment adam had.
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  • God gave it to him, and he's looking all the time
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  • For the rest of himself.
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  • You know, i supposed to have a not good for me to be alone?
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  • Where? where's the other half?
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  • In all of the creation of the animals?
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  • He looked for something else that was created
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  • In the image of god.
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  • Didn't find it.
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  • What? to sleep.
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  • And while he was sleeping,
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  • God was that divine anesthesia.
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  • Went into his
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  • Side, took out a rib, created eve,
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  • Sold him back up
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  • While he was sleeping.
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  • And when he awakened.
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  • Folks, we couldn't explain.
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  • There's not enough adjectives.
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  • There's not enough ability for anybody to say
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  • What adam felt when he saw eve in the garden.
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  • He said, bone of my bone
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  • And flesh of my flesh.
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  • She was created not out of dirt, as was adam.
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  • She was created out of mankind, part of himself.
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  • And he said, eureka, i found it.
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  • Can you imagine?
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  • And then god performed
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  • And gave us
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  • Marriage.
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  • Leave,
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  • Cleave
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  • One flesh naked.
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  • No shame.
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  • God gave us marriage.
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  • And ladies and gentlemen, marriage is the primary
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  • Foundation upon which we stand
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  • In judeo-christian tradition.
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  • So karl marx,
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  • In his evil declaration, was right on target when he said,
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  • Communism cannot exist
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  • As long as there is marriage
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  • And long as there is family.
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  • So the primary target today
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  • In the united states of america
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  • Is marriage.
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  • Marriage.
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  • First and foremost, in the sight of the evil
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  • One, the devil. marriage.
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  • So we'd better wake up
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  • And understand marriage.
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  • How does marriage take place?
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  • Where does it begin?
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  • And everybody here would say the obvious answer.
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  • When you fall in love.
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  • Let me tell you, if you fall.
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  • Is that a good thing?
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  • Well, i fell in love.
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  • It's that that.
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  • Is that a good way to express it?
  • 00:14:05.156 --> 00:14:08.159
  • Marriage is one of god's greatest gifts.
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  • You might say, next to the gift of our salvation, christ.
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  • It's number one.
  • 00:14:15.967 --> 00:14:17.235
  • But let's be honest, it also brings real challenges.
  • 00:14:17.235 --> 00:14:20.972
  • Every couple of face disagreements, miscommunication
  • 00:14:20.972 --> 00:14:26.277
  • Or financial pressure, family tensions, and seasons
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  • Of frustration in the whole area of marriage.
  • 00:14:29.614 --> 00:14:32.550
  • You know, saying that if you're married, left unchecked,
  • 00:14:32.550 --> 00:14:36.788
  • Those struggles can slowly erode into
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  • Even a marriage that should be great.
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  • Into a marriage, that's just okay.
  • 00:14:42.293 --> 00:14:44.996
  • But that does not have to be your story.
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  • In the ten commandments of marriage,
  • 00:14:48.967 --> 00:14:50.768
  • I share biblical truth, practical wisdom,
  • 00:14:50.768 --> 00:14:53.705
  • And a little humor drawn from more than 50
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  • Years of ministry and marriage experience.
  • 00:14:57.108 --> 00:15:00.044
  • These ten timeless principles are designed to help husbands
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  • And wives protect what matters most and strengthen
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  • That relationship, and build a marriage
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  • Based on love and joy, and a lasting commitment
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  • That's filled with laughter and pleasure and excitement.
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  • Listen, god never intended marriage to be.
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  • Let's just survive and hang on.
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  • He attended it to sing and to thrive.
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  • Listen, if you really want a healthier,
  • 00:15:29.841 --> 00:15:32.877
  • Christ centered marriage that still has warmth, passion,
  • 00:15:32.877 --> 00:15:36.681
  • And purpose, these ten commandments of marriage
  • 00:15:36.681 --> 00:15:40.151
  • Is just for you.
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  • Call them on your screen or visit the website below
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  • To regress your copy of the ten commandments of marriage.
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  • Do it today.
  • 00:15:48.993 --> 00:15:57.301
  • How do you know when you're in love?
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  • First of all, wouldn't
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  • It be a good idea if we define the love?
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  • Wouldn't it be a while?
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  • No, i.
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  • Marriage is based on love.
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  • Well, let's define love.
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  • Whole lot of definition.
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  • We use love in english language a lot of different ways.
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  • I love football, i love the texans.
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  • I love pecan pie with bluebell on top of it.
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  • I love pecan pie.
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  • Yeah, i have all kinds of people
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  • That i have confidence in. friends.
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  • And i will say sincerely, i love you.
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  • They're all different areas of love.
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  • And the greeks have at least four words for love.
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  • Three of them, i think, i think,
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  • Particularly apply to marriage.
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  • I want you to see the love triangle that we have up here.
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  • The greek word is eros.
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  • You know that erotic.
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  • That's chemistry.
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  • That's physical love.
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  • You need that in marriage.
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  • That's attractive.
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  • Then there's for leo.
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  • That is friendship.
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  • Love your wife.
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  • Your husband should be, must be, has to be.
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  • If you're going to
  • 00:17:08.840 --> 00:17:10.007
  • Have an exciting marriage that sizzles biblical style,
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  • There has to be a friendship there.
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  • And then there's a gape.
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  • That's that big, broad, god given love
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  • That is sacrificial love that you won't primarily for
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  • Your partner to be number one and to have everything.
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  • And you would literally give your life for him or for her.
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  • See, this is
  • 00:17:36.234 --> 00:17:37.034
  • The large framework of love.
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  • And we see and define what love is.
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  • And you want to read a clear definition?
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  • Read one corinthians 13.
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  • Boy, that is a big word for love.
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  • I might better do that so you'll understand how serious
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  • This thing really is.
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  • Though i speak for the tongues of men
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  • And angels, but have not love, i have become something
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  • Sounding breath or clanging cymbal.
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  • And though i have the gift of all prophecy, understand
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  • All mysteries, all knowledge, and though i have all faith, so
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  • That i could remove mountains, but have not love, i'm zero.
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  • And though i was though all my goods to feed the poor.
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  • And though i give my body to be burned, but
  • 00:18:24.916 --> 00:18:27.752
  • Have not love, it profits me nothing.
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  • Here's the definition.
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  • Love suffers long.
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  • Love is kind.
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  • Love does not envy.
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  • Love does not parade itself, is not puffed up,
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  • Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not easily
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  • Provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity.
  • 00:18:48.239 --> 00:18:52.243
  • But where joyce is in truth, bears all things, believes
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  • All things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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  • Love never fails.
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  • Is it love?
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  • Is it infatuation?
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  • We got a little test down here.
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  • Look at the grid again.
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  • Love or fascination?
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  • Test time.
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  • It takes time.
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  • Jobs and i dated
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  • Six and a half years and remain pure.
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  • It takes time. it takes knowledge.
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  • You got to get to know one another.
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  • It takes singularity.
  • 00:19:37.321 --> 00:19:39.557
  • There's a time in my life i was dating a girl in college.
  • 00:19:39.557 --> 00:19:43.160
  • There's a girl i did in high school,
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  • And i was trying to say, well, which one do i love?
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  • We've all been there.
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  • God told me this week one time
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  • He thought it was in love with four different girls.
  • 00:19:50.735 --> 00:19:54.372
  • It takes singularity.
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  • It takes compatibility well up to the tracks.
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  • But you better have something in common.
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  • If she gets sick driving around the block
  • 00:20:04.382 --> 00:20:06.617
  • And your big thing is travel, i think about that.
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  • It takes compatibility.
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  • It takes common sense.
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  • You listen to friends, you listen to people.
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  • You listen to family before you fall, right?
  • 00:20:18.396 --> 00:20:23.701
  • These are the tests that we put up there.
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  • It takes compassion.
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  • You want to be married to
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  • Somebody who is not compassionate and forgiving,
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  • And you want to marry somebody,
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  • Spend the rest of life with them.
  • 00:20:36.314 --> 00:20:38.983
  • And if the ideas of their christian.
  • 00:20:38.983 --> 00:20:41.118
  • Well, you know, she believes in god.
  • 00:20:41.118 --> 00:20:43.654
  • And, you know,
  • 00:20:43.654 --> 00:20:44.622
  • She was brought up in the episcopal church,
  • 00:20:44.622 --> 00:20:46.824
  • The baptist church, the catholic church.
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  • Nonsense.
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  • Is this person genuinely seeking to walk
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  • With jesus christ?
  • 00:20:53.197 --> 00:20:54.298
  • And the biblical truths are going to be the foundation
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  • Of that divine relationship?
  • 00:20:57.802 --> 00:21:00.705
  • Run through some tests, these
  • 00:21:00.705 --> 00:21:04.675
  • Not exhaustive always somebody you didn't mention.
  • 00:21:04.675 --> 00:21:08.112
  • Look, how long do you want to stay here?
  • 00:21:08.112 --> 00:21:10.648
  • So it's not exhaustive any of this,
  • 00:21:11.415 --> 00:21:14.685
  • But these are the broad principles to determine.
  • 00:21:14.685 --> 00:21:18.456
  • Is it fascination?
  • 00:21:18.456 --> 00:21:19.924
  • Is it just chemistry or is it love.
  • 00:21:19.924 --> 00:21:22.593
  • And that takes a lot of these things to put in your grid
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  • As before you say i do and i will.
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  • So what we're going to do
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  • Is present biblical principles for falling in love,
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  • For being in love, for staying in love.
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  • How do you stay in love?
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  • Learn the love language of your mate. men.
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  • Learn the love language of your wife.
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  • Wives learn to love language.
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  • Your husband and i'll walk you through that in days to come.
  • 00:21:53.991 --> 00:21:57.695
  • As we go through the first grade of biblical marriage.
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  • Okay.
  • 00:22:00.998 --> 00:22:03.834
  • So here we are.
  • 00:22:04.201 --> 00:22:07.271
  • Here we are. now
  • 00:22:07.271 --> 00:22:10.307
  • Let's flip through to something
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  • That's very, very important
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  • In ephesians chapter five, verse 32,
  • 00:22:17.481 --> 00:22:21.852
  • Ephesians five, paul is talking about
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  • This is how a husband conducts himself.
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  • This is how wife conducts himself.
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  • This is how the home functions biblically.
  • 00:22:29.794 --> 00:22:32.763
  • And finally paul ends up and he says,
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  • Marriage is a great mystery.
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  • Remember that verse is what the marriage is
  • 00:22:39.403 --> 00:22:42.740
  • A great mystery, a great mystery.
  • 00:22:42.740 --> 00:22:47.044
  • What is that great mystery?
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  • Okay.
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  • What is this
  • 00:22:51.615 --> 00:22:53.617
  • Mysterious secret about marriage
  • 00:22:53.617 --> 00:22:56.353
  • That some people miss and therefore it the
  • 00:22:56.353 --> 00:22:59.356
  • What is this great mystery?
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  • Your mystery is
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  • Marriage is not a contract.
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  • It's not an agreement.
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  • It's not a settle on legal relationship.
  • 00:23:13.471 --> 00:23:18.275
  • It is a covenant.
  • 00:23:18.709 --> 00:23:22.646
  • The secret mystery of marriage.
  • 00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:25.616
  • And a lot of people don't understand it is a covenant.
  • 00:23:25.616 --> 00:23:29.620
  • Marriage is not a duet.
  • 00:23:29.620 --> 00:23:32.122
  • It's a trio.
  • 00:23:32.456 --> 00:23:34.024
  • Look at the covenant triangle, if you would.
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  • Husband notice the error
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  • As the husband draws closer to god.
  • 00:23:41.398 --> 00:23:44.101
  • As a wife draws closer to god, look,
  • 00:23:44.101 --> 00:23:48.239
  • They're getting closer to one another.
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  • Do you see it?
  • 00:23:49.974 --> 00:23:51.442
  • Yeah, well, that sounds like biblical truth.
  • 00:23:51.442 --> 00:23:53.777
  • No, that's absolutely 100% accurate.
  • 00:23:53.777 --> 00:23:56.547
  • And it works.
  • 00:23:56.547 --> 00:23:57.348
  • Every single time
  • 00:23:57.348 --> 00:23:58.983
  • The husband gets closer to god, the wife gets closer to god.
  • 00:23:58.983 --> 00:24:02.653
  • And in the covenant,
  • 00:24:02.653 --> 00:24:04.221
  • They become not a duet, but a trio, because god
  • 00:24:04.221 --> 00:24:08.425
  • And his biblical principles are in the heart of it.
  • 00:24:08.425 --> 00:24:11.629
  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:24:12.196 --> 00:24:13.163
  • If you're married, you're just i don't know.
  • 00:24:13.163 --> 00:24:14.899
  • This is love and one in the marriage.
  • 00:24:14.899 --> 00:24:16.867
  • I'm always right.
  • 00:24:16.867 --> 00:24:18.502
  • I'm speaking and always drawing hard lines in the sand.
  • 00:24:18.502 --> 00:24:22.740
  • There's all this debating going on.
  • 00:24:22.740 --> 00:24:24.942
  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:24:24.942 --> 00:24:26.510
  • I was married 50 plus years.
  • 00:24:26.510 --> 00:24:28.345
  • I've been married now, going on for years.
  • 00:24:28.345 --> 00:24:31.749
  • Marriage, in my experience,
  • 00:24:31.749 --> 00:24:35.386
  • Sinful, flawed that i am many, many ways.
  • 00:24:35.386 --> 00:24:40.024
  • Marriage is exciting for a filling, a blessing.
  • 00:24:40.024 --> 00:24:43.661
  • It is a joy because
  • 00:24:43.661 --> 00:24:46.897
  • God biblical principles work.
  • 00:24:46.897 --> 00:24:50.267
  • And if that is not happening with an exciting creativity
  • 00:24:50.267 --> 00:24:54.538
  • In your marriage, you're not following god's principles
  • 00:24:54.538 --> 00:24:58.676
  • For this most important foundational relationship.
  • 00:24:58.676 --> 00:25:02.279
  • You got it. that's true.
  • 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:05.549
  • Some of you look like, wow.
  • 00:25:06.150 --> 00:25:07.885
  • Oh yeah.
  • 00:25:07.885 --> 00:25:11.121
  • See, marriage is the physical relationship.
  • 00:25:11.121 --> 00:25:14.391
  • That's a metaphor for the marriage
  • 00:25:14.391 --> 00:25:17.227
  • You and i have with god through jesus christ, our salvation.
  • 00:25:17.227 --> 00:25:21.832
  • So we're going back to
  • 00:25:22.299 --> 00:25:23.667
  • The fundamentals, and it is a covenant.
  • 00:25:23.667 --> 00:25:27.271
  • And when we realize that god,
  • 00:25:27.271 --> 00:25:30.741
  • His principles are at the heart and center
  • 00:25:30.741 --> 00:25:34.745
  • Of every one of our marriages,
  • 00:25:34.745 --> 00:25:37.681
  • That will change everything.
  • 00:25:38.282 --> 00:25:43.287
  • If your marriage isn't sizzling.
  • 00:25:43.988 --> 00:25:50.294
  • Something is wrong
  • 00:25:50.728 --> 00:25:53.931
  • And you are not living out plain, clear,
  • 00:25:53.931 --> 00:25:58.769
  • Practical principles
  • 00:25:58.769 --> 00:26:01.472
  • Of a biblical marriage.
  • 00:26:01.472 --> 00:26:05.876
  • Marriages today face more pressures than ever.
  • 00:26:06.844 --> 00:26:09.980
  • Many couples live
  • 00:26:09.980 --> 00:26:11.448
  • With stress, disappointment, distance and discouragement,
  • 00:26:11.448 --> 00:26:15.285
  • Wondering if the joy they want shared can ever return.
  • 00:26:15.285 --> 00:26:19.223
  • But god's design for marriage has not changed.
  • 00:26:19.223 --> 00:26:22.826
  • In doctor young's the ten commandments of marriage,
  • 00:26:22.826 --> 00:26:26.397
  • You'll find practical biblical principles that can help
  • 00:26:26.397 --> 00:26:29.466
  • Transform your relationship from the inside out.
  • 00:26:29.466 --> 00:26:33.303
  • Whether you've been married for months or decades,
  • 00:26:33.303 --> 00:26:36.674
  • These truths can help you communicate better, grow closer
  • 00:26:36.674 --> 00:26:40.411
  • Spiritually, resolve conflict in a healthy way,
  • 00:26:40.411 --> 00:26:43.747
  • And to rediscover the love that first brought you together.
  • 00:26:43.747 --> 00:26:48.252
  • A strong marriage doesn't happen by accident.
  • 00:26:48.252 --> 00:26:51.288
  • It grows when a husband and wife choose
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  • To build their relationship god's way with christ.
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