St. Valentine(s)

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, ponders the Saints Valentine—in the plural because there were two! They had something in common. They were both imprisoned, tortured, and killed in the third century. They not only shared the same name, but in sharing the same fate, they became inspirational for Christians into the present day. One was a bishop. The other a presbyter. One was a healer. The other was a valiant defender of marriage. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the personification and paradigm of what is true love—and both saints stood for the truth of Christ no matter the cost. Two men who loved Truth enough to die to self, to live for God, to say that the institution of marriage was created, sustained, and given to us by God Himself. If you redefine marriage, you change the very essence of marriage. And so we remember both Valentines. Are we willing to stand for truth—particularly when it comes to marriage?

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Hank Hanagraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible
0:19.2	and sub-Ban broadcast with another Hank
0:21.5	unplug short. Today, I'm thinking about St. Valentine. And not only about St. Valentine
0:30.6	in the singular sense, but in the plural sense, because there were two valentines.
0:39.9	They had something in common.
0:50.3	They were imprisoned and tortured and killed under the Roman Emperor Claudius II in the third century.
1:00.6	And they not only shared the same name, but in sharing the same fate, they became inspirational for Christians all the way into the present day.
1:10.1	One was a bishop, the other a presbyter. One was a healer, the other was a
1:15.9	valiant defender of marriage. But both again were inspirations, not only for what has popularly
1:25.5	become St. Valentine's Day, but for standing for truth no matter the cost.
1:34.7	So, one, the presbyter, in defiance of an imperial edict, continued to do what was necessary, and that is to unite and bless the
1:50.2	union of Christian couples. Often had to do that in secret, underground in the catacombs.
1:59.6	But what a model of the life of Christ? Christ, the personification of what
2:08.1	is true love. And so we still remember St. Valentine's, the Presbyter of Rome on July 6th and St. Valentine, the Bishop of Rome on
2:24.9	July 30, two men who loved enough to die for truth, to die to self, to live for God, to say that the institution of marriage was created, sustained, and given to us by God himself, to say that if you change the meaning of marriage, you change the very essence of marriage.
2:59.8	So the Valentine's who died in Rome stood for truth. I wonder if we're willing to stand for
3:07.4	truth, particularly when it comes to marriage.
3:10.7	We live in an epoch of time, much like the Roman Empire.
3:15.9	Today we have a Supreme Court justice, Anthony Kennedy, who holds that marriage, at least the historical definition of marriage,
3:28.6	fosters little more than ill will and animosity, and that anyone today who embraces a historical
3:38.0	definition of marriage does so out of hate and animus.
3:44.6	If marriage means everything, in the end, it may well mean nothing at all.
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