A Sweet, Permanent Complication

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jani Ortlund describes marriage as a “permanent complication.” Can you relate to that description? But she also says it can be a “sweet complication.”

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0:00.0	Janie Ortland gives wives this challenge.
0:04.0	God doesn't just tolerate you in the Bible. He embraces you.
0:09.0	Let's not be wives who just tolerate our husbands. Let's embrace them as God embraces us.
0:18.0	This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Walgamud, author of Choosing Forgiveness for Monday, September 24th.
0:30.6	If you're a married woman, or if you hope to be married someday, do you realize that marriage
0:40.6	is not all about you and your husband?
0:43.5	Actually, your marriage is about God's glory.
0:47.0	Marriage was designed to be a picture of Christ and his church.
0:50.9	My good friend, Janie Orland, is going to explain today why it's so important to understand this.
0:56.2	When you view marriage this way, it has huge practical implications.
1:01.1	Jenny is a pastor's wife.
1:02.6	She and her husband Ray have been married for over 40 years, and they have four married children and, well, it's a bunch of grandchildren.
1:10.8	Jenny recorded this message at one of the Gospel Coalition women's conferences.
1:15.1	Here's Jamie.
1:20.0	If you have your Bibles, will you open up to Romans chapter 7?
1:24.6	We're going to read verses 1 through 6.
1:26.7	Now, you didn't think I was going to go there,
1:28.4	did you? I'm not a Roman scholar. I happen to be married one, but just because you sleep with
1:35.1	one does not mean it comes through an osmosis. But these six verses, I have studied somewhat.
1:42.6	We are not going to go through them phrase by phrase.
1:45.3	We're going to take some ideas and apply them to a gospel-centered marriage.
1:49.8	Listen as I read, Romans 7, verses 1 through 6.
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