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MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

Making Your Marriage Last

MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

XO Marriage

Relationships, Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

No matter who you marry, you will sometimes experience the negative side of your marriage vows. When you understand how to have a lasting marriage, your relationship can get better year after year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:14.8

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0:23.0

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0:28.0

Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Carrey.

0:30.0

Whatever the issues are in our marriage, I'm all in. I'm going to

0:36.7

pay whatever I have to pay. I came in to this marriage saying for better or

0:41.4

worse. I came into this marriage saying in sickness and in hell.

0:46.0

And so thank God for the good times but when the bad times said I'm all in. I am not a renter.

0:51.0

I don't have one foot out the back door. I'm not on my heels. I'm all into this relationship. Oh, marriage is a covenant and the word covenant means to cut you don don't make a covenant, you cut a covenant.

1:24.3

And every time in the Bible when a covenant is made there's blood. Adam and Eve had a marriage

1:29.2

covenant. Adam got cut. That Jesus said this is the new covenant in my blood. Okay, so covenant

1:36.8

means a sacrificial permanent relationship, a sacrificial, this is going to require sacrifice, permanent relationship.

1:45.0

Well did you know that the wedding vows that most of us take are covenant vows?

1:49.0

Whether we realize it or not, here's what he said for better or worse for richer or poor

1:56.3

in sickness and in health you know why we say those vows because we're making a

2:01.9

sacrificial covenant relationship.

2:07.0

Marriage means there's going to be sacrifice involved in this.

2:11.8

And when poorer comes, when sickness comes, when bad times hit, I'm all

2:17.1

in from the very beginning. My expectation from the very beginning is this was a

2:21.8

sacrificial relationship that was a lifelong relationship and I've got my sleeves

2:26.4

roll up let me say this we've turned marriage from a covenant into a contract

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