This is a message from Dr. Michael Yousef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

And if you'd like to learn more about Dr. Youssef and the ministry of leading the way,

the place to start is l-tw.org.

Now, just before I start, I want you to know that if you a person have experienced painful failure in marriage,

I don't want you to sit there with guilt all over your face and heart and say, well, this is what

I should have done and I didn't do this. Look, God is the God of mercy, is God of grace.

And you need to look forward and not back.

Because I can tell you, and many of you know the truth of what I'm going to tell you,

that perhaps the deception of Satan in our culture has not been greater in any area,

is greater than the area of marriage relationship.

This deception is a biblical proportion, and it really is.

Look around you with the acceleration of sexual sins and homosexuality and infidelity

and quick and no-fault divorce and serial marriages and these are by just the symptoms

and the evidence of the fact that we have been snookered by that deceiver that we have experienced

that deception that eve experienced firsthand the deception that says that god's blueprint for a happy marriage, that God's blueprint

for a joyous marriage, that God's blueprint for the betterment and the good of society

is oppressive. That's the deception that we have experienced in the last 40 years or so.

And this deception is not only you see it in the television commercials and in the television

programmings, but you see it and you hear it preach from many a poopets in America today.

That's the saddest part of all.

The same serpent that came to Eve in the garden and said,

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