when we were first married, those first four and a half years, that was a constant question in our hearts and to each other of like, why isn't this look like what God said it was going to look like? We thought we thought, quote unquote, we did the right things and waited and tried doing the right things. We serve God. We kind of talked about this a little bit last episode, but it didn't feel, it didn't look like what we thought we were promised. Hey, I'm Aaron

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com. Today's episode. Here we go. Yeah. God's design for marriage. So, of course, he did design it. Did he? It was very intentional. Yes. I was being facetious. I know. There's just no way that marriage exists as a, you know, byproduct of the existence of humans. Like, we just came up with the idea. Like, we're not that cool. We have that great by ideas. We have some pretty good ideas. But marriage, I mean, we even see it nowadays is just, it's, it's such a difficult concept. A lot of people don't want to get married anymore. A lot of things, people, like divorces just rampant in the church, outside of the church. marriage is a hard thing. It's a hard concept. But it's definitely God's idea. And I also think it's

incredible that the Bible opens up with essentially marriage. It doesn't talk about a wedding in the sense of what we would understand a wedding. But it does talk about two becoming one flesh. Absolutely. And then when the Bible talks about marriage, it references Adam and Eve and the order of that. And that's kind of what we're going to talk about today. So with the same intentionality that he put into us, like creating humans and making

us in his image, he also created marriage for an intentional purpose. And he established it. Like,

he came up with it in his mind and made it work. And so we're excited to dive into that design today.

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