Dead Works Create a Fruitless Marriage | A Marriage Without the Holy Spirit | Part 2
Established Family Podcast
Derek Palizay
5.0 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re talking about one of the most dangerous things destroying marriages that almost no one is calling by name… dead works.Not just obvious sin.But lifeless patterns.Flesh-driven reactions.Religious routines.Outward godliness without inward transformation.Spiritually empty habits that quietly defile covenant.Many spouses are trying to restore their marriage while still sowing in dead works—while still building on pride, offense, legalism, bitterness, self-righteousness, and a conscience that has never truly been cleansed.Hebrews 9 says the blood of Jesus was shed to cleanse your conscience from dead works and lifeless observances so you could serve the living God.So what happens when your marriage is still being built on dead works?What happens when you want your sins nailed to the cross… but your spouse nailed to the front door for everyone to see?In this episode, we confront:— The difference between good works and dead works— Why repentance is not punishment, but the doorway to freedom— How dead works defile covenant— Why a marriage without the Holy Spirit is spiritually dead— The danger of legalism in marriage restoration— What it means to truly walk in the new covenant with your spouseA marriage without the Holy Spirit is not just struggling… it’s dead.It is time for marriages to repent of dead works.It is time to stop performing lifeless observances and start living by the Spirit.Because the blood of Jesus did not miss your marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Established Family Podcast. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about |
| 0:03.7 | dead works versus good works and how that affects a marriage. And no, we're not just talking about |
| 0:08.3 | the obvious sins of ourself or our spouses. We're talking about any lifeless action driven by the |
| 0:14.2 | flesh that is outside and devoid of the advocacy of the Holy Spirit. Why? Because often a spouse desires for healing, restoration, |
| 0:23.7 | growth, and equipping for their marriage. And yet one or both of the spouses are sewing in |
| 0:28.9 | dead works, expecting a different result other than death. If we don't have a revelation of this, |
| 0:34.5 | or if our senses are not awake to this through the expression of marriage, |
| 0:38.8 | you and your spouse will continue to sow in dead works and reap nothing besides the death |
| 0:43.9 | that comes from that. |
| 0:44.9 | But that is not your portion. |
| 0:46.2 | So we're going to talk about the difference between those dead works and good works, |
| 0:50.2 | so that way Satan does not have an open door to steal our clear conscience as the Lord |
| 0:54.9 | is speaking a new thing over our marriage. So let's hop into today's episode. |
| 1:02.2 | What is going on to Stablish Family? I have an exciting announcement for you. |
| 1:09.5 | Well, actually, too, so our family is |
| 1:11.1 | expanding, but it's expanding in more than one way. So not only is God blessing us with another beautiful |
| 1:16.0 | soul under our care, that makes six beautiful children, but he's expanding established family as a |
| 1:22.1 | growing ministry as well. As all of you know, over the past few years, God has been faithful to continue and advance his kingdom |
| 1:29.4 | mission of restoring marriages back to his original design. That means you and yours, you and your family. |
| 1:36.4 | And I want to share a couple practical numbers of what that has looked like. What began as our |
| 1:40.6 | testimony, which many of you are familiar with, and a burden that God placed on our |
| 1:44.8 | heart for the people he assigned to us has turned into over 470,000 people who have joined |
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