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The laws of marriage, when the Lord healed our marriage,

I asked the Holy Spirit to teach me how to be a husband.

I read in John 16, Jesus said when the Holy Spirit

comes he'll lead you into all truth and so we were on the brink of divorce and

the night that I told Karen to get out of the house I asked the Holy Spirit

because she was about to leave I said teach me

how to be a husband and it was the first time I'd ever shown any humility or or

been willing to admit that I didn't know something and he he did. And it was a few days later I woke up and I was

praying and reading my Bible and the Lord said, turn to Genesis 2. And I turned to Genesis 2 and I read that passage, you know, for this cause a man will leave his mother and father will cleave him to his wife.

The two shall become one flesh and they were both naked, the man and his wife and they were not ashamed.

And it didn't mean anything to me.

I mean, I read it, I just looked at it.

And the Holy Spirit said, just keep reading it.

And I kept reading it and it just didn't mean anything to me.

And then all of a sudden it just unpacked.

And the Lord showed me that there are four laws of marriage.

And what I realized was I was breaking all four laws.

Of all the four laws, I hadn't done anything right,

and that's the reason that we were failing in marriage.

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