So I want to talk about marriage and the goodness of it from a biblical perspective.

And then maybe we can look at even within the story of Genesis, how marriage is distorted,

our sexuality is distorted.

You can try and have all of the benefits of marriage without entering into marriage.

It's not going to serve you well because God makes plain an exclusive and a permanent union between one man and one woman,

that's marriage, and he gives that to us as one of his best gifts, this side of glory.

Something I see with young people is that they will delay marriage, and they do it on one of two reasons. They'll either say, we don't have enough

means yet to get married, or they'll create a milestone within their careers and we'll say,

we're just going to get to this milestone, and then we'll enter into these things. It's a dangerous

thing to do. The risk is, and I've seen this happen,

they get to the milestone and they'll say,

you know what, maybe that's not quite enough

and it gets pushed back further.

And it keeps getting pushed back.

And you'll be just missing out on one of God's best gifts.

Thank you. one of God's best gifts. Well, welcome back to the Dialin Ministries podcast.

I'm sitting here with Dr. Paul Twiss.

You know, we previously talked through how Genesis provides the framework,

not only for our understanding of Scripture, but for our life as we live it,

who we are being an image bearer, we're made in the image of God. Can you just once again maybe

define what you meant when you said that we're made in the image of God? Yeah, primarily the idea there

is that we are his representatives. To be an image bearer is to represent God. Yeah. Now, you mentioned, and I like the terminology that you employed, that there is at the beginning of scripture, and I like even that idea of a drum beat, a cadence, a metronome, just the boom, boom, boom. It's that God makes, he speaks, it comes into being, and it was good. Yes. I love the way you framed it at the opening section of scripture,

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