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Today we are going to be discussing arranged marriages, something that sends a shiver up the spine

of modern libtards in our culture today, they can't possibly imagine that parents,

loving parents who care for their sons, care for their daughters, might be involved in a

intentional way to ensure that their children have a godly, righteous, suitable spouse for the

future. We've made all that sound as though it's evil and sinister.

But this is the way that marriage, for the most part, functioned in many different societies,

Christian societies, might we remind you, throughout the course of human history until relatively

recently. I remember once hearing

an old saying. Somebody said once that in the East, love begins with marriage. In the West,

love ends in marriage. And I remember pondering that as a young man and agreeing with the basic sentiment,

that there really is something behind that. Now, the reality is that's not always the way things

were. It's not as though for the last 2,000 years in the West that marriage has always been

the death of romance, affection, and love.

That has not been the case.

But I think that this saying is true when it comes to the modern West, that still in many

places in the East today, even at present time, love, romance is something that is cultivated and starts with marriage and blossoms

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