1046. How Can I Grow In Intimacy And Grace With My Spouse? | Ask Paul Tripp
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
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This week, Paul kicks off a special series of archive episodes by addressing two important marriage questions: what it truly means for a husband and wife to become “one flesh,” and how to lovingly encourage your spouse when they are struggling with sin.
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| 0:00.0 | For the next 10 weeks on Ask Paul Trip, we're going to be diving deeper into the archives |
| 0:07.4 | and compiling some older answers from Paul. These answers were relatively brief back when they |
| 0:12.7 | were recorded, so we'll put together two or three of them to create an episode with a common |
| 0:16.8 | thread running through it. For today, that thread is marriage. The first question comes from |
| 0:21.6 | someone asking Paul to practically explain Genesis 224. Therefore, a man shall leave his father and |
| 0:28.3 | his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. So here's Paul |
| 0:33.3 | answering the question, what does it really mean to be one flesh? When the Bible talks about one flesh, it really means one flesh. |
| 0:42.9 | It's that in the intimacy of the marriage relationship, there is meant to be the most miraculous, tender intimacy |
| 1:00.0 | that you could ever experience in human life. |
| 1:04.0 | That's this moment where all protections are gone. |
| 1:10.0 | I am now literally naked exposed in the arms of another human |
| 1:17.3 | being and our bodies literally become as one now it's not enough to say that that's what it's about because that depth of |
| 1:34.3 | intimacy with all of its tenderness and with all of its needed protection and all of its mutual |
| 1:43.1 | serving love is only possible because there is a deep |
| 1:51.0 | abiding relational unity that that couple has. You see, here's how it works in marriage. |
| 2:00.5 | You always drag the character. You see, here's how it works in marriage. |
| 2:10.0 | You always drag the character and quality of your marriage relationship into the marriage bed. |
| 2:23.9 | If you have been harsh and judgmental with me, if you have been selfish and demanding with me why would I not expect that you would be that same person in the intimacy of our sexuality |
| 2:30.3 | why would I relax why would would I rest? The wholeness of marital sexuality is only possible because of the wholeness of the spiritual relational intimacy of those couples I want to speak |
| 2:56.0 | for a minute to men I think it's possible to treat your wife as an object for your |
| 3:06.8 | own sexual satisfaction without little concern about |
| 3:11.8 | how you tenderly love and serve her in the intimacy of marital sexuality you get satisfied and you walk away it's almost like you're |
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