How to Make Real Progress in Your Marriage
The Real Marriage Podcast
Mark Driscoll
4.7 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do I just live by the flesh and kind of just get impulsive, emotional, self-soothing, go for comfort? |
| 0:07.0 | Think about myself, or am I in the demonic? Am I at the place where I'm just a bitter, broken, jaded, sort of unwell person? |
| 0:15.0 | Because if somebody is in the demonic, they're dangerous, you can't have any relationship with them. |
| 0:20.0 | They're in the flesh, they're unhealthy, so can't have any relationship with them. If they're in the |
| 0:21.0 | flesh, they're unhealthy, so you can only have an unhealthy relationship with them. And if they're |
| 0:25.2 | in the spirit, they're healthy, so there's the possibility of a healthy relationship with them. |
| 0:28.9 | Howdy, folks, welcome back to the Real Marriage podcast this season. We are talking about |
| 0:33.7 | relationships. We all have many different relationships in our lives and none more important |
| 0:38.7 | than our relationship with Christ and our spouse. But are there other relationships in your life |
| 0:45.5 | that are hurting your most important ones? That's what we're talking about today. |
| 0:50.8 | So over time, if somebody lives in the flesh ongoing, does it tend to get better or worse? |
| 0:58.5 | Worse? The enemy loves it, so it just turns demonic really, really easily. |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah, and so if you live in the spirit, you'll make a lot of progress, because God does accelerate and aid that if you live in the flesh, everything in the |
| 1:15.5 | world encourages that temptation and opportunity are always going to be available. |
| 1:20.2 | And then eventually, if you live in the flesh for long, it deteriorates into the demonic. |
| 1:25.8 | It gets worse. |
| 1:30.9 | You go from being an angry person to a violent person, from being a person who's a binge drinker to a full-blown alcoholic, from a person who |
| 1:38.0 | is occasionally verbally abusive to your spouse or kids to somebody who's impossible to live with. And I think |
| 1:48.1 | a majority of people live in the flesh. The minority would be in the spirit or in the demonic. |
| 1:53.6 | But what we're seeing is this cultural slide, even in how we treat one another, speak to one |
| 1:58.3 | another. Yeah, it's tragic. Civility is just dead and gone. And so if living |
| 2:03.2 | in the spirit is living heaven or kingdom down, living in the demonic is literally pulling hell |
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