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Marriage: God’s Showcase of Covenant-Keeping Grace

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Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2007

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Because God has forgiven us in Christ, we ought to treat our spouses with the same grace that God gives us.

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The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

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Colaians chapter 3 verse 12.

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Put on then as God's chosen ones,

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holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing

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with one another, and if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other, as the Lord has forgiven

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you, so also you must forgive.

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And above all these, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony,

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and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body.

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And be thankful.

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Let the Word of Christ dwell in you

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richly, teaching and admonishing one another

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in all wisdom, singing Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with

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thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do in word or deed,

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do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,

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giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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Wives submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord, husbands love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

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Let's pray together. Father, I don't feel adequate.

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Father, I don't feel adequate or sufficient in these weeks to put myself forward as a model husband or father and so I feel very very

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vulnerability upon your word.

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And I asked that you would help me to be faithful to it

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and not to color it with any of my deficiencies,

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either personally or concerning marriage. I pray that you would

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