Welcome to Gospel in Life. When it comes to marriage, we often use words like soulmate

or the one. These words can reveal an underlying belief that, to have a good marriage, you just

have to find the perfect person. But the biblical vision for marriage is starkly different.

It's a way for two imperfect people to help each other become who God intended them

to be. Listen as Tim Keller explores the meaning of marriage.

This passage in Ephesians 5 on marriage, both for the last time, is a slight mistake. This

is not the tenth servant on marriage. This is the ninth servant on marriage. And this

is the last one. And I want to start off right now by saying, unfortunately, there's a lot

of people that I've talked to over these nine weeks who said, are you, are you going to

say this? Are you going to say this? Are you going to get to this? And I said, yes, yes,

yes. I don't know if I'm going to do it. I got to be done tonight. We're done. I'm tired.

You're tired of marriage. And I've just got to finish tonight. From here, I said, well,

I'll say this or I'll address this person. I'm not sure I'm going to get to it all tonight.

And I want to apologize ahead of time. Don't be too mad. If I was somebody, if you're somebody

that I talk to, you know, somewhere in the last few days or a few weeks and said, yes,

I will definitely address that. I'm just not going to get to it all tonight. I would

just like to talk about the, in some ways, the peak verse of this entire passage. I won't

even read the whole thing again, but it's Ephesians 5. And I just want to read verse chapter

5 of Ephesians, verse 32. We've been going in these evening services through the book

of Ephesians. We've come to this passage on marriage. And we're going to look for the

last time at it. The whole passage runs from chapter 5, verse 21, to verse 33. But I would

like to just read you one verse and expound it and try to pull the meaning out of it. And

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