The Idea That I Won’t Be Married to My Wife in Heaven Makes My Heart Hurt

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Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Questions about what the absence of marriage in Heaven will mean for you and your spouse, thoughts regarding two Christians signing a prenup, whether it’s okay to want to get married because you want to have sex, and a wife taking over spiritual leadership.

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0:00.0	This is Dan to reasons. Hashtag STRask podcast. Welcome. We're so glad you're here. And we're not just saying this to ourselves. You know, it's so funny because I,
0:23.7	it's easy to forget there are people listening and then I go out there and people say,
0:27.9	oh, when you said this and that and I'm like, oh, you were, you're actually listening.
0:33.6	It's nice. It's nice to know. All right. Today, Greg, we have questions about marriage or related to marriage in different ways.
0:40.8	So this first one comes from Josh.
0:43.1	My pastor said recently that marriage won't be necessary in heaven anymore.
0:46.9	So where does that leave me and my wife?
0:49.2	Because the thought of my wife of eight years and mother of my child being just a friend makes my heart hurt.
0:55.8	Love to hear your thoughts.
0:57.4	Well, yeah, I don't, I think your pastor is right.
1:02.9	And I just read this passage in the Gospel of Mark recently because I just finished the Gospel of Mark in my own reading.
1:13.2	But I don't think it's a demotion.
1:21.8	It's a promotion. Things aren't going to be less than, oh, just a friend. All of our relationships are going to be magnified. And I think when Paul says in First Thessalonius chapter 4, to comfort one another with the words that
1:29.2	the dead in Christ will be meeting us in the air with Christ at the resurrection, that is comforting
1:36.5	because these are the people we know in love, as opposed to a whole bunch of other Christians
1:41.5	we don't know in love. but we will, you know,
1:44.9	over time get to know them and love them, whatever. But there is a special place for those who
1:49.4	are close to us. And I think this is why, or that's a subtext, rather, to Paul's comments there
1:56.8	at 1st Corinthians 4. I'm sorry, First Thessalonians 4. So comfort one another with these words.
2:04.3	So you're going to be rejoined with those that you care about. But it's not a demotion from
2:10.7	intimate to friend. All the intimacy that you have now in the closeness, you are going to share.
2:19.2	But you won't share sex because that doesn't seem to be a part of what's going on in heaven, according to Jesus' words.
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