Does the Church Idolize Marriage?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1314 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. What does it mean to "let your yes be yes and no be no"?
2. What does it mean to be "in the Spirit" in Revelation 1:10?
3. How can I heal from purity culture that taught me sex is always wrong?
4. Is it proper for a pastor to keep non-baptized people from communion?
5. Why does the Church seem to place more value on marriage than singleness?
6. Why has the practice of casting out demons seem to have stopped today?
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| 0:00.0 | Does the church idolize marriage? That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's |
| 0:10.9 | edition of Core Christianity. Hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the |
| 0:16.7 | radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:22.1 | We'd love to hear from you, and our phone lines will be open for the next 25 minutes or so, |
| 0:26.2 | so call us with your question right now. Here's the number, 833-the-core. That's 1-833-843-2673. |
| 0:36.7 | Now, we also have a YouTube channel. You can watch Adriel Live in the studio right now on YouTube. See how cutie is. And you can send him your question that way or email us at Questions at Core Christianity.com. Well, first up today, let's go to Dave in New York. Dave, what's your question for, Adriel? |
| 0:56.5 | Yes, I have a two-part question. I'd like to ask you fast here, pastor. I want to tell you quick, though, that I asked my pastor, and his answer to both these two-part questions comes down to integrity, he said, integrity, and like it says in numbers, when a man vows about to the Lord and swears and off to bind himself by a pledge, |
| 1:15.3 | he shall not break his word. |
| 1:17.1 | He should do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. |
| 1:19.2 | So here's my question. |
| 1:20.8 | In Matthew 537, Jesus says, let your yes be yes and your no be no. |
| 1:26.7 | I like to you explain exactly what that means. |
| 1:30.0 | And my other question, on the part two, which I ask my pastor, and it comes on to integrity, |
| 1:35.6 | is what if the answer is not yes or no, but it's maybe? |
| 1:39.3 | Hey, thanks for that question, Dave. And I do think your pastor is on the right track, that the heart of this is integrity. |
| 1:46.3 | So this comes in the middle of what are sometimes referred to as the six antitheses in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter five, where Jesus is contrasting. |
| 1:58.2 | Or he's challenging. |
| 2:00.6 | He's contrasting the interpretation the common interpretation |
| 2:02.9 | given on the law among the scribes and the Pharisees he's he's contrasting that with the |
| 2:07.7 | truth the true understanding of the law he didn't come to abolish the law he says earlier in the |
| 2:11.3 | sermon on the mount he came to fulfill the law and then he's shedding light on how that law |
| 2:16.5 | was being misapplied and misunderstood by the |
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