Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

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ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

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Welcome back to Verity Podcast, you guys. We are in the midst of our honest marriage series,

and I, Felicia, am here with my husband, Josh. And we are talking this week about

walking through sexual sin in your marriage, or how to support one another

when you are struggling with sexual sin, whether it is your husband, or if it's the wife,

or both of you, either in the same ways or in different ways. Now, before we start this,

I want to be clear that we aren't counselors, and we are not equipped to counsel people

on their sexual struggles. So before you email us and ask for specific advice,

please keep that in mind. We would love for you to instead reach out to a licensed counselor

and to your pastor or your church staff, hopefully both, to get the support that you need. So

we're going to just be very open and transparent about our own story, but then also look at what

scripture says about sexual sin before and after marriage. We just want you to get the support

that you need, and that can only come from a licensed counselor and a pastor. Hopefully you can

talk to both to get the support you need both spiritually and mentally. Okay, I'm going to start

by reading Ephesians 5 again. Last week we looked at Ephesians 5 when we talked about gender roles,

but this week we're looking at Ephesians 5 to talk about sexual immorality, and I'm going to read

Ephesians 5 1 through 5 8. It says, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children,

and walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us a fragment offering and sacrifice

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