Crisis in the Family

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Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

God established marriage for our blessing and our benefit. When we commit ourselves to God's plan for marriage -- which includes embracing the different roles of husbands and wives, developing serious commitment, love, and understanding -- our family will be strengthened and our love for one another will grow abundantly.

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0:00.0	This is a message from Leading the Way with Dr. Michael Youssef.
0:04.0	We pray that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.
0:08.0	If you would like to learn more about Dr. Youssef or leading the way,
0:12.0	please visit ltw.org.
0:19.0	We know from history that there is no unit more vital to the existence of a meaningful
0:27.2	society than the Christian family. God created the family. God dealt with families.
0:37.2	God gave instructions for family life. God promised his promises to families.
0:45.3	There was Martin Luther, this great German reformer who was called by some as the founder of modern
0:51.4	Christian family, this Augustinian monk who made some sort of a revolution
0:57.8	by rejecting that clerical celibacy as not of God, and married Catherine Van Buren, who,
1:06.3	thus liberating her from a nunnery. He, in that act, put the family in the center of the universe.
1:15.3	Martin Luther said, God established three essential institutions, marriage, the ministry of the word,
1:24.6	and the state.
1:33.9	And yet this founder of what might be called the modern Christian family stated that both in chronological order and insignificance, the home proceeds both the ministry of the
1:41.6	word and the state.
1:50.5	Marriage established by God himself, and it preceded the other two. The man leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one
1:59.4	flesh.
2:09.2	This one single verse, by virtue of its content and by virtue of its repetition in the scripture,
2:15.5	teaches us more about family and about marriage in the home than any other single verse.
2:20.8	The necessity of this cleaving, the necessity of this clinging,
2:28.6	implies that this is to be worked at in daily living, in daily life,
2:32.0	in such a way that the outcome will be oneness.
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