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Fierce Marriage

If Bearing Fruit in Your Marriage Feels Forced, You Need to Hear This

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.94.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Is your marriage bearing genuine spiritual fruit, or are you simply stapling "good behavior" onto a dying tree? Today we dive deep into the "engine" of a Christian union. We explore the critical difference between moralizing—trying to force change through sheer will—and living a life truly indwelled by the Holy Spirit.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I cannot love you as a wife if I refuse to acknowledge the order within marriage. I cannot love you and hold you in the regard I need to hold you in. The way you have to love me is an ordered way. I have to love you in an ordered way. Again, going back to the order of Morris and how that plays itself out. You cannot love and respect and honor me as your husband. If you don't basically see me as a husband, you just see me as a guy

0:21.2

who happened to sign a piece of paper with you. Again, I could go on and on, but that-

0:25.2

Save it for fierce men, sir. It's his fierce marriage.

0:36.5

Selena, we recently had to take kind of a, take stock.

0:41.4

Yes.

0:42.0

In the Frederick household.

0:43.2

Okay.

0:44.1

What I mean by that is, you know, life advances.

0:48.4

Yes.

0:48.6

Children grow.

0:49.8

Their needs change.

0:51.4

Their maturity level, of course, changes in terms of how to educate them and the

0:58.8

demands on our family as a result, not just because, you know, we have four girls. I'll just let

1:04.5

that sit. What do you mean? There's a lot of yapping, a lot of drama in the household.

1:12.6

It's all good.

1:13.4

We love their girliness.

1:16.6

But we've had to take stock because at times the stresses of life can, they squeeze you and what's in you comes out.

1:25.4

And sometimes what comes out is not what you want coming out.

1:31.1

This is very true. This is very true. And you wonder, okay, how can we, how can we, you know,

1:37.2

because if you're not experiencing the fruits of the spirit. Yeah. What's going on under the hood?

1:42.2

Yeah. I mean, last week, the last few weeks we talked about kind of the engine lights, right?

1:47.6

And so asking some diagnostic questions.

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