Marriage that Works - Marriage - A Holy Covenant, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What does it take for a marriage to remain strong? Communication? Trust? Respect? Love? Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram will share that there’s something more foundational and more essential to a strong, lasting marriage than all those other aspects.
Main Points
God's instructions for a great marriage
- It requires mutual submission to God and each other. - Ephesians 5:21
- You need to know how to love your mate.
- Your marriage has an even bigger purpose than your happiness.
Marriage is a holy covenant
- A covenant: An agreement and guarantee one person makes with another.
A covenant marriage involves three distinct aspects:
- Leaving
- Cleaving
- Becoming "one flesh"
Since marriage is a covenant and not merely a contract...
- Divorce is not an option. - Malachi 2:14
- Adultery is a serious covenant breaking offense. - Proverbs 2:16-19
- Sex before marriage is a violation of this holy covenant. - Hebrews 13:4
- Same sex relationships are forbidden as a violation of God’s design. - 1 Corinthians 6:9; Romans 1:26-27
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you wish your marriage was more, you know more fulfilling, more intimate, more exciting? |
| 0:07.0 | Do you wonder if it's possible to have a good marriage? |
| 0:09.0 | Well, let me tell you, there is hope and there is help. |
| 0:12.0 | Stay with me as we discover how to stop. tell you're there is hope and there is help. |
| 0:12.6 | Stay with me as we discover how to strengthen your marriage like never before. |
| 0:17.0 | Thanks for joining us for this |
| 0:23.0 | joining us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:26.0 | Chips are Bible teacher for this international discipleship ministry |
| 0:30.0 | focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:33.0 | And in just a minute, Chip will pick up where he left off in our series, |
| 0:36.0 | Marriage That Works, |
| 0:38.0 | with the remainder of his talk, Marriage, a Holy Covenant. |
| 0:41.0 | And let me encourage you to stick around after this message as Chip shares some practical |
| 0:45.9 | steps you can follow to protect this sacred bond. |
| 0:49.3 | You don't want to miss it. |
| 0:50.3 | Oh that, go to Ephesians Chapter 5 in your Bibles as we join Chip with today's talk. |
| 0:57.0 | Marriage, what is it? |
| 0:59.0 | In our day, it's sort of a conditional contract. |
| 1:02.0 | I will marry you. |
| 1:03.2 | We may make up our own vows. |
| 1:04.6 | We can say whatever we want. |
| 1:06.1 | But in terms of pragmatism in our day, |
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