The Purpose of Marriage According to Genesis | God's Perfect Design | Jonny Ardavanis & Harry Walls
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Jonny Ardavanis
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Discover the biblical foundation of marriage as explained in Genesis. Harry unpacks why God said "it is not good for man to be alone" and explains marriage as God's perfect solution - providing both a "helper suitable" and an "intimate companion." Learn how marriage provides the covenant of trust needed for true intimacy and companionship as designed by God.
In this teaching on biblical marriage, we explore:
- How marriage provides both practical partnership and intimate companionship
- The biblical definition of a "helper suitable"
- Why living together isn't the same as marriage
- How the marriage covenant creates the trust needed for true intimacy
- The purpose of marriage according to Genesis
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| 0:00.0 | I don't want to go so far so that someone is despairing if they're single. |
| 0:03.8 | But I also don't, I think the comfortability of like marriage is an option. |
| 0:08.2 | That's not the biblical. |
| 0:09.7 | No, it's actually not good for you to be alone. |
| 0:12.3 | I think that's actually radical for people. |
| 0:14.9 | Well, I think it is. |
| 0:15.8 | I don't think that people think that way. |
| 0:18.5 | You know, I think they think marriage is a good thing. |
| 0:20.6 | Or there's alternatives to God's thing. |
| 0:23.0 | In this culture, my opinion, a lot of people perfectly comfortable being 35 and alone. |
| 0:27.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.5 | And it's not because they're not engaged with somebody physically. |
| 0:33.7 | It's they don't understand the solution. |
| 0:36.8 | It's not just a periodic encounter with a woman. |
| 0:39.9 | You know, they'll find a girl, they'll find a guy, they'll do stuff with them, |
| 0:43.7 | and actually mute the realities they need, either prematurely connecting or doing certain things |
| 0:51.0 | in a way that mutes the reality that I need a companion for life in the context |
| 1:00.7 | of marriage. And God knew that. God said it, and it's important for people to recognize. |
| 1:18.8 | Harry, thanks for sitting down. One of the things I want to talk to you about is the subject of marriage. |
| 1:23.3 | You know, we live in a world where people are getting married older and older and older, |
| 1:27.9 | almost a decade of distance now from 30 years ago of the timeline of when someone would get married and obviously even for those who are married I think many lack of biblical perspective |
| 1:33.5 | on why marriage exists and what it is according to the scripture so let's just start |
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