Today on Summit Life, Pastor Jidi Greer reframes how we think about marriage and singleness.

He's saying to people who are married, you ought to reflect on the fact that this marriage that you're in, it's just temporary.

It's light and it's momentary.

It's not eternally significant.

Oh, and you single people, that state that you're in right now, that's not permanent or eternal either.

That's just a temporary life thing.

Christ in the church are what's

permanent and ultimate. Hey, welcome back for another week of solid biblical teaching here on

Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host,

Molly Vitovich. Doesn't it seem like our culture acts like romantic love is the pinnacle of human

existence? From our earliest days, we read about that happily ever after that comes when you

meet your soulmate. But is that really how it works? Today, Pastor Jody

gives us a balanced biblical view of marriage as he continues our new teaching series on relationships

called First Love. If you missed the beginning of this sermon last week, I just want to remind you

that you can always hear previous broadcast at our our website, jitty greer.com.

Today's message is titled This Light and Momentary Marriage, and we're in Ephesians

Chapter 5. So let's get started.

We're going to look today just to the last two verses, verses 31 and 32, where Paul sums up

all the things he's been teaching on relationships.

All right.

Verse 31.

Therefore, Paul says, a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

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