Wise Couples

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The foolish person makes an excuse. The wise person makes a plan. What do wisdom and a healthy marriage look like? In marriage, it’s important that we both work toward what God has for the marriage and not excuse what we’re doing that’s wrong. We’re encouraging you to pursue wisdom together with your spouse. Download a FREE Chapter from Mark's book, "Spirit-Filled Jesus". Just text "RealMarriage" to 31996 and we'll send it to you for free. This is a great resource about relationships that perfectly lines up with what we're talking about this season. Need personal counseling? Check out our sponsors at Faithful Counseling. Get 10% off your first month as a listener of the Real Marriage podcast. Go to getfaithful.com/realmarriage and join the over 500,000 people taking charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Watch teachings from Pastor Mark and other leading marriage experts! Check out XO Now at now.xomarriage.com. Find more from Mark and Grace at xomarriage.com/realmarriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	With wisdom, how important is it that humility precede wisdom?
0:06.0	Because that means you're teachable and willing to grow and you're willing to recognize reality
0:11.0	and what needs to change in your, you know, personally and in your marriage or your relationships.
0:17.0	And so if you are looking at things like, well, I think I've got it together and, you know,
0:22.5	I'll consider this, but you're not actually willing to learn, then you're not going to grow in
0:27.3	wisdom.
0:28.0	But how about the person that just says, well, this is how I am and you're going to have to
0:31.2	work around that.
0:31.9	That's an excuse.
0:32.9	I mean, we see that.
0:34.0	Yeah, we see that all throughout scripture that people try and excuse or turn the other way.
0:41.0	That's not what God intends. He wants to, even Jesus grew in wisdom and stature with God and man.
0:46.9	And if he had to do that, then we all the more have to do that.
0:50.5	Well, the Bible says that love doesn't demand its own way.
0:53.2	Absolutely.
0:55.7	And so humility is saying,
1:02.5	I'm willing to adjust to have a relationship with you. All right, welcome back to the Real Marriage Podcast on the XO Podcast Network. Mark Triscoll here with my best friend Grace. And we're doing a four-part
1:09.2	series, evil people, foolish people.
1:11.9	We dealt with those two in previous episodes.
1:13.8	What are we getting into today, best friend?
1:15.6	Wise people.
1:16.8	Wise people.
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