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Let's pray.

I want to praise you again, Lord Jesus, for the New Covenant, the new covenant that you sealed with your blood in purchasing a bride for yourself.

And I pray now that as I attempt to unpack part of this glorious reality called

marriage, you would help me.

And I pray that you'd help me not just for the sake of Holmes being solid, stable, lasting, happy, but for the sake of the glory of Jesus Christ, who is the pattern for marriage, for come. And not only help me, me Lord but help those who hear those who are listening and

watching I pray that they would believe, be strengthened, be helped, be given fiber to last in a new day of hope.

So, draw on the near now I pray and accomplish these and many more things that I

can't even think to ask in Jesus' name, amen.

Between more lengthy sermon series, I am inserting a few subjects that it seems to me are urgent.

Marriage is always urgent.

There never was.

There has been a generation whose view of marriage is high enough.

The chasm between the biblical vision of marriage and the human vision is now and has always been gargantuan.

Some cultures in history respect the importance and permanence of marriage more than others, some like our own,

have such a low and casual and take it or leave it attitude towards marriage as to make the biblical vision almost

unintelligible when it's articulated. That was the case in Jesus Day as well.

Nothing new really about our day in that regard.

When Jesus gave a glimpse of marriage and the disciples saw it and God's will for it. They said, if such is the case of a man with a wife, it is better not to marry.

That's how indescribable and unbelievable and unattainable Jesus' vision for marriage is.

In other words, Christ's vision of the meaning of marriage was so enormously different

from that of his disciples that they could not imagine that it was a good thing.

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