Honoring the Covenant of Marriage

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I will never divorce you. In 2018 that’s a radical statement for a married couple to say to each other . . . but it’s crucial.

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0:00.0	Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth says husbands and wives need to do away with the D word.
0:06.7	A contract can be made and broken, but a covenant is a solemn promise.
0:13.5	It's a permanent, exclusive, mutual covenant made before God between a man and a woman.
0:24.3	This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss,
0:28.3	Walgamuth, author of Adorned, for July 10th, 2018.
0:33.3	Music Nancy's continuing in a series called The True Woman Manifesto Declarations Part 2.
0:49.5	You can read the document and listen to previous programs in this series at revive our hearts.com.
0:57.0	Today, she's talking about marriage as a sacred covenant before God. Let's listen in.
1:03.9	Well, we come back today to the whole concept of marriage, as we're looking at the
1:07.4	True Woman Manifesto, marriage, which is facing some pretty stiff
1:12.7	cultural headwinds today. You know what I mean? First of all, the whole concept of getting married,
1:19.6	well, it's not all that popular today. I pulled up some articles yesterday, one from the New York
1:25.3	Times, called The Secret to Marriage is Never Getting Married.
1:30.6	And this one from an Australian publication saying, I don't, the case for not getting married.
1:39.2	And here was one from a feminist publication called 11 reasons to not get married. Here are some of the reasons
1:46.9	that included. It said marriage is still that same old patriarchal institution. Marriage benefits men and not
1:53.9	women. Marriage is totally isolating. Talked about how after you get marriage, you lose all your friends,
1:59.2	you can't do things with your friends anymore, you just got to spend time with your mate. Here's another reason not you get married you lose all your friends you can't do things with your friends anymore you just got to spend time with your mate here's another reason not to get married they said
2:05.5	the sex stops being good once you get married and then it says when you're not married you can leave your
2:12.4	dude at any time here's another one getting divorced is and annoying. And here was the last of those 11
2:20.0	reasons. Why not just be a spinster? And here's what it said under that point. Picture this.
2:25.8	There is no man in your life. There are no children in your life to whom you gave birth. Your life is
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