Hey guys, thanks for checking out this Bible teaching.

Every week release a podcast that corresponds to the sermon.

It's like a little bit of a deeper dive where we hit some things that didn't make it into the sermon,

some theological concepts.

We talk about things that are going on in our culture and how to think about them from a biblical perspective.

We call that podcast Live Free.

An episode releases every Monday that corresponds to the sermon. If you would like to check

out Live Free, just go to the Lake Point YouTube channel and look for the podcast tab there. We'll see

you at Live Free. Now, enjoy this Bible teaching. When I was sitting there in the Song of Solomon series, Josh brought out these blocks.

This is how God has designed the relationship to be built. You are getting disciples to do the exact opposite.

And he flips the triangle and the building blocks upside down.

Because the foundation is the smallest part of the relationship,

it's totally unstable, real easy for it to fall.

And when I saw the blocks fall, I realized that I built my relationship

on this weak foundation, and that's not how I want a relationship to end up,

so I knew we had to make a drastic change he asked me to be his girlfriend on Valentine's Day

and we ended up going to college together in Arkansas we've been living with

each other since we lived in Arkansas I think we always kind of felt shame it was

just something that we kept pushing further down I I knew it was wrong. I've read my Bible. I understand the principles that God has laid upon us, but you don't want to apply them to yourself. We were Christians in name, but not in how we lived. We went through premarital counseling with Ken Murphy, and he had proposed to us, we can get you married right now, or you guys can live in separate houses. And that's really, like, when the conviction started hitting for me, is I've been putting this to the side. I need to accept the role that God gave me as a man, and I need to set it right before him. We were just like, let's get married. And we told him, we're going to be getting baptized. He was like, that's perfect. Let's do it an hour after your baptism. The peace that I felt after having that conversation and just such a release, it felt like that's God's plant. Rood had just given us a great opportunity to build a community. We got put in a group that's a bunch of married couples that give us an insight into how you live a godly life.

Rooted gave us direction, wisdom, and community.

Ever since we've gotten married, I feel closer.

I understand in the Bible when it says you become one flesh, we didn't feel like that before.

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