And what happens sometimes with couples is they get very frustrated because they want God's blessing, but they don't want to obey God's commands.

Yeah.

And we started out that way, and then God rerouted us and put us back in blessing.

Yeah, maybe explain that.

We didn't start in a place that God was going to us.

When we dated, we were sleeping together before we were married.

And that was not a place of God's blessing.

We actually did harm to ourselves, you know, emotionally through that that we had to work through

and process later.

And so, but when we step back into God's design for marriage and his timing for sexual activity inside the marriage, then we could

see God directing us and God honoring that obedience.

All righty, Mark and Grace here with the Real Marriage podcast. Hey, and what we're going to start

doing is looking at marriages in the book of Genesis, some of the

most famous couples in the history of the world, Adam and Eve, Noah and his wife.

Abraham and Sarah. Maybe we get into law and his wife. Yeah. Call her salty. Yeah, she is

rather salty. And I'm preaching through the book of Genesis at Trinity Church, where we lead together,

and thought it would be fun to use some of the marriages in Genesis as a case study.

If you'd like to...

The good and the bad.

The good and the bad.

And there are both in Genesis.

It's the most honest book ever written.

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