The most fulfilled people in the surveys I've seen, the most sexually fulfilled people are those who are married to each other.

It's astounding because we're presented just the opposite.

You just do it with whoever you want to and you're going to be really happy.

And that's not the way it works out. You just can't

go against God's ways and win. I want to repeat this month, no, it's just the most fulfilled

people, but the most sexually fulfilled people are those who have saved physical, intimate,

sick, intercourse for the institution of marriage and are preserving it

within that context ongoing today.

Outstanding is a production of The Washington Stand, where you can find news and commentary from

a biblical worldview. Welcome to Outstanding, where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and the ideas that shape us.

I'm your host, Joseph Backholm.

And this is yet another exercise in taking every

thought camp to the obedience of Christ. And this episode is being released on Valentine's Day. So

happy Valentine's Day to all you lovebirds out there. So today, one of the things that we're

going to do is discuss the right way, the biblical way,

to think about love and marriage.

Because this is, in fact, not just a personal issue.

It is a cultural issue.

It is a theological issue.

Over the last 50 years, marriage rates have declined in the United States more than 50%.

The age of first marriage has dramatically

increased from like 21 to 28 years of age over that same period of time. Birth rates have dropped

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