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Messages by Desiring God

Love Her More, Love Her Less: Living for God’s Glory in Marriage

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

You love your spouse more when you love them less than God. If God is not central, your marriage will not glorify God as he intended.

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0:00.0

The following resource is from desiring God.org.

0:04.0

Let's pray together.

0:07.0

Father in heaven, it is so true to the point of tears that my mother did not labor in

0:20.9

vain. And I pray that all the mothers of the men and women in this room

0:27.8

would hear that soon if they're not in heaven.

0:36.0

And now help me do my little part here

0:40.0

in regard to this theme, in Jesus' name, amen.

0:41.0

So my title is Marriage Lived to the Glory of God and here's my main point.

0:50.0

If your marriage is going to make God look glorious, you must be more satisfied in God than in marriage.

1:06.0

That's the point of the message.

1:07.5

And the assumption is Al-Molar's message.

1:12.3

It's not a repetition, you'll hear that.

1:14.0

But the assumption is, so he laid the foundation

1:18.0

and I'm going to now build on it.

1:20.0

The assumption is that behind this main point, God is ultimate and marriage is not.

1:31.0

God is infinitely important and marriage is of secondary importance.

1:38.0

The universe is of secondary importance.

1:41.0

You are of secondary importance. You are of secondary importance and God is of

1:46.3

supreme importance. If you believe that you are totally out of step with the world and what's going on in it. Great is the Lord and

1:58.2

greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable.

2:03.7

That's the assumption underneath this point.

2:08.1

So God is the ultimate reality in the universe.

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