The Search for a Godly Spouse (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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In a warm and upbeat speech given to college students, Alistair Begg challenges single men and women to measure any potential partner against six essential traits, such as a strong faith in Christ, integrity, and kindness. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | We need to recognize that there is no good thing that the Lord will withhold from those whose |
| 0:06.6 | walk is blameless. If we are not involved in a dating relationship, if we do not have a special |
| 0:12.4 | other person, there's no need for panic. |
| 0:14.8 | God makes everything beautiful in his time. |
| 0:18.8 | Today on Focus on the Family Pastor Alistair Beg offers encouragement and a good dose of humor along the way. |
| 0:25.2 | Your host is focused president and author Jim Daly, I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:29.3 | John, we're concluding a two-part message for singles today. It was given to college students but let me tell you |
| 0:35.8 | biblical truth applies at any stage of life so singles of any age will get a lot out of this program. |
| 0:43.0 | Alistair started last time with a list of what a woman should look for if she wants a |
| 0:47.7 | godly husband. |
| 0:49.6 | So let me recap those points. |
| 0:51.3 | He said he should be committed to growing in his relationship |
| 0:55.2 | with Jesus Christ. He should be a man of obvious integrity. He should also be a man who |
| 1:01.0 | demonstrate servant leadership. And today we'll finish the list for |
| 1:05.1 | women and then Alistair will give men some ideas of what they should be looking |
| 1:09.0 | for and a godly wife. And with that here's Alistair Begg, the pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 1:15.6 | And as you said Jim, he's working through that list of characteristics of a godly husband |
| 1:20.8 | as we continue on focus on the family. |
| 1:26.0 | Fourthly, you need to look for a husband who displays the ability to love sacrificially, to love sacrificially. |
| 1:37.4 | Seek out men who display a self-sacificial dimension, |
| 1:41.9 | not a person who says, well, one of the things I'd like to |
| 1:44.6 | mention to you is that I'm a very self-sacrificing person. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, |
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