Loyalty in Marriage: When Your Spouse Messes Up
FamilyLife Today®
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
"What do I do when my spouse screws up?"\x9d Author James Merritt offers advice on reaching a new level of love and loyalty in marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Pastors perform weddings. It's God that does the marriage. Pastors don't join a |
| 0:07.7 | couple together. God joins together. Holding a marriage together is not just |
| 0:11.2 | saying, I'll be loyal to you like you're loyal to each other. No, you're loyal to |
| 0:14.4 | two things. The vows that you took before God and the God that you took the |
| 0:19.8 | vows before. That's what you're loyal to. The loyalty to each other is a |
| 0:24.4 | fruit of that. It's a result of that. A lot of couples that get married |
| 0:27.8 | sometimes it concerns me. They don't understand you're not just saying words |
| 0:31.2 | you are taking that's why I do my wedding. You're taking a sacred foul before God |
| 0:36.7 | till death to you part. We don't take that seriously much. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships |
| 0:55.0 | that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson. And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at |
| 0:59.6 | FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life app. This is Family Life Today. |
| 1:16.6 | So you know there's a TV show that every once in a while I'll be flipping |
| 1:21.8 | around channels when I get there I sort of stop. Oh yes I totally know what you're |
| 1:26.7 | going to say. And I fell football. No college football. That I would expect when I |
| 1:31.8 | come into the room and I'll say like no I don't even I don't want anybody to know |
| 1:36.4 | this. The bachelor. I have never watched the bachelor but I've watched |
| 1:42.1 | minutes of it. Well I haven't watched the season. I can't even tell you a name |
| 1:46.6 | of a bachelor or bachelor. I don't know. But you get kind of mesmerized. |
| 1:51.0 | Obviously there are the couch I'm flipping around and you know although there's |
| 1:54.8 | the bachelor. And I get mesmerized because it's so comical. It's like are you |
| 1:59.3 | kidding me? Sorry for abandoning our bachelor. I'm sure there's people that love it. |
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