Hope for Hard Marriages

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

If you are in a discouraging marriage, don’t focus on whether your marriage is pleasing to the Lord. Focus on whether you are.

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0:00.0	Podcast listener angel writes in,
0:07.9	Pastor John, I grew up as a Christian and I always planned to marry a good Christian
0:11.8	man that brought me closer to God, held me accountable, and shared the same beliefs.
0:17.5	I'll skip all of the details on how I got to this point, I ended up marrying someone
0:21.2	that claimed to be a Christian but who lives a lifestyle contrary to the one founded on
0:25.0	Christian values.
0:26.8	I'm at a loss.
0:28.4	He doesn't want a divorce and I don't want to live in sin.
0:31.2	I know Paul teaches that we are to stay with our unbelieving spouse, but we're those
0:35.6	God's words.
0:37.3	I don't believe that divorce is pleasing to God, but I don't know that my marriage is either.
0:42.2	Pastor John, what would you say to angel?
0:45.0	Wow.
0:46.8	This is huge.
0:47.8	This has so many dimensions and not to mention the sadness and the heaviness that's in
0:55.9	that sentence.
0:56.9	I won't give you all the details, so please angel, know that I've tasted enough trouble
1:05.6	in marriage and I've listened to enough people with trouble that I don't make light of
1:10.3	anything you've said here and everything I have to say I say with a sense of gravity.
1:18.5	What should we say?
1:20.5	It seems like at the heart, I mean, the first issue I've got to deal with is her words
1:26.1	I know Paul teaches that we are to stay with our unbelieving spouse, but we're those
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