Hello everyone and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry that's here to

encourage and inspire you every day. And today we're continuing our series called Awesome Relationships.

In it, Rick Warren shares practical ways to help you take your relationships with family, friends,

coworkers, and even God, from ordinary to extraordinary.

And this is a series you don't want to miss.

Okay, now here's part two of a message called Fighting for an Awesome Marriage. The third reason God created marriage for the connection of men and women,

for the multiplication of human race, third, for the protection of children.

God created, God invented marriage for the protection of children.

We all know that kids grow better, healthier, stronger when they grow up in a stable family,

when they grow up in a marriage with a mom and a dad.

Now, why did God create marriage for the protection of children?

Because when you were born, you were born completely helpless you could not do anything

you couldn't feed yourself you couldn't dress yourself you couldn't change your diaper you

couldn't blow your nose shoot you couldn't even turn over on your back when you first started

you were literally, totally helpless.

God knew that human children needed a safe environment.

And you were going to need somebody to feed you and dress you and nurture you.

You were going to need somebody to protect you to guide you to train you to care for you

and all these things now we i asked my researchers to go out and research all of the national and

international studies on the effect of marriage or the lack of a marriage on children.

I asked them to find me all those studies.

Here they are.

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