What Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce could mean to the world: How to strengthen our marriages and our witness
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 May 2021
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Bill and Melinda Gates announced this week that they are divorcing after twenty-seven years of marriage. In The Daily Article for May 6, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison describes the potential global ramifications of their decision, then he focuses on the priority of marriage, the threat of sexual temptation, and a commitment that will empower our marriages, families, and witness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.2 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.6 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the daily article for Thursday, May the 6th, 2021. The title is what Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce could mean to the world, how to strengthen our marriages and our witness. Bill and Melinda Gates announced this week that they're divorcing after 27 years of marriage. Forbes reports that their |
| 0:39.2 | split could yield the largest divorce settlement on record, eclipsing the $35 billion |
| 0:44.1 | breakup of Amazon's Jeff Bezos and McKenzie Scott. Yesterday, we learned that the Gates has hired, |
| 0:50.5 | quote, a team of high-profile lawyers, end quote, to handle their divorce. |
| 0:55.8 | The couple created the $50 billion nonprofit Gates Foundation, one of the biggest philanthropies |
| 1:01.3 | in the world. It gave $5.1 billion in 2019 to fight, quote, poverty, disease, and inequity |
| 1:08.4 | around the world. While the couple has pledged their continued commitment |
| 1:12.2 | to the foundation, the New York Times reports that, quote, people in its orbit worry that an |
| 1:17.4 | acrimonious split by its founders could cloud the non-profits' plans. In other words, |
| 1:23.1 | the marital struggle of a single couple could affect billions of people they have never met. Their story is a |
| 1:29.6 | parable for our day. I've been talking lately about the priority of personal morality for our public |
| 1:35.8 | witness. The same is true of our public relationships. Many years ago, a wise counselor in the ministry |
| 1:42.2 | told me, the best way you can love your church is to love your told me, the best way you can love your church |
| 1:45.2 | is to love your wife, and the best way you can love your wife is to love your Lord. |
| 1:50.0 | God loves the family. In fact, he invented it. As Genesis 218 reminds us, he knew that it is not good |
| 1:56.6 | that the man should be alone, so he made a helper fit for him. In Exodus 20 verse 12, the fifth |
| 2:02.3 | commandment teaches children to honor your father and your mother. God's word in Deuteronomy |
| 2:07.7 | 67, likewise, calls parents to teach his word diligently to their children. In Ephesians 5, |
| 2:14.1 | we learned that husbands and wives are to love and serve each other. |
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