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08 18 2024 God’s Plan for Marriage · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, eight
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  Speaker 2: August eighteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the Book of Mark. Our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is God's Plan for Marriage. God's Plan for Marriage.
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  Speaker 2: It says God's Plan for Marriage. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new day and for the
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  Speaker 2: work week that you have set out before us. Bother,
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  Speaker 2: for those who are looking for work, I pray that
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  Speaker 2: you will give them what they need. Bother, I just
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  Speaker 2: pray that you will teach us faith and patience, that
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  Speaker 2: you will give us growth in our relationships with our spouses.
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  Speaker 2: And for those who are looking at marriage and wondering
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  Speaker 2: if they should get married, please give them your principles
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  Speaker 2: and then put them together with someone who is like minded,
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  Speaker 2: who loves you as well. In Jesus name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: Amen and day men again God's plan for marriage. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of plans out there for marriage,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that there is a discussion that you're
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  Speaker 2: expecting me to have, but that is not the one
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to have right now. God had a plan
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  Speaker 2: from before there was a beginning, and when he created
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  Speaker 2: male and female, he wanted us to understand the relationship
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  Speaker 2: between Jesus and his people. That's what the Book of
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  Speaker 2: Ephesians says. When Paul is teaching, he says, I want
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  Speaker 2: you to understand the relationship between Christ and his church.
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  Speaker 2: We see what Jesus's perspective was yesterday. He was very focused.
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  Speaker 2: He said he came to serve, not to be served.
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  Speaker 2: He came to serve, not to be served. Brothers, when
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  Speaker 2: you are marrying women whom you love, you are marrying
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  Speaker 2: women you love so you can serve them. There are
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  Speaker 2: too many of us out here who say, because we're
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  Speaker 2: the head of the household in quotes, that we are
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be the boss. I remember there was a
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  Speaker 2: guy I won't call his name, but years ago I
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  Speaker 2: used to when I was into arguing. Like, I used
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  Speaker 2: to argue with this dude regularly because he said he's
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  Speaker 2: the boss of his wife. And I said, the boss,
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  Speaker 2: there's something very very wrong with this, and well, unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: he's no longer married. Can I can I just say
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  Speaker 2: that like, he didn't have a servant's heart, he did
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  Speaker 2: not have a servant's mindset. He thought he was the
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  Speaker 2: boss of his wife, and he lost his wife. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time. Okay, let me jump in
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  Speaker 2: and get right into the scriptures. Here from the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Mark, chapter ten, and I will read beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse one, and the Bible reads, and he arose from
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  Speaker 2: thence and cometh into the coast of Judea, by the
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  Speaker 2: farther side of Jordan. And the people resorted unto him,
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  Speaker 2: And as he was wont he taught them, saying, he
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  Speaker 2: taught them again. And the Pharisees came to him and
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  Speaker 2: asked him, isaful, is it lawful for a man to
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  Speaker 2: put away his wife tempting him? And he answered and said,
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  Speaker 2: unto them, what did Moses command you? And they said,
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  Speaker 2: Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement and to
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  Speaker 2: put her away. Jesus answered and said, unto them, for
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  Speaker 2: the hardness of your heart, he wrote you this concept
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  Speaker 2: or precept. And so the whole idea of divorce came
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  Speaker 2: as a result of the hardness of our hearts, not
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  Speaker 2: because God had. He didn't have an escape hatch, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a trap door, he didn't have a way
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  Speaker 2: that did well. If this doesn't work out, we just
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  Speaker 2: kind of bail out of this thing, he said, very clearly.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus answered unto him and said, for the hardness of
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  Speaker 2: your heart, he wrote you this precept. I would call
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  Speaker 2: this a plan B. Brothers and sisters. But from the
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  Speaker 2: beginning verse six, the creation of God made them male
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  Speaker 2: and female. For this cause, shall a man leave his
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  Speaker 2: father and mother and cleave to his wife. Verse seven
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  Speaker 2: is teaching us that when we men leave home, leave
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  Speaker 2: our mothers, our fathers, We leave to be on our
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  Speaker 2: own with these women that we have chosen, hopefully under
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  Speaker 2: the power of God, under the inspiration of God. Once
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  Speaker 2: we do that, we're not supposed to go back home.
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  Speaker 2: Home is not with our parents anymore. When I say
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  Speaker 2: with our parents, I'm saying no, backing out and saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: this marriage didn't work, so I'm done. That is not
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  Speaker 2: what God intended from the beginning. Now we know that
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  Speaker 2: there is a plan B, but I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 2: Plan B today, okay. And the twain verse eight, shall
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  Speaker 2: be one flesh, and then they are no more two
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  Speaker 2: or twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath put together,
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  Speaker 2: Let no man, and I will add no woman put
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  Speaker 2: us under Okay. And so in Deuteronomy chapter six, verse four,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible teaches us something that the Hebrew people would
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  Speaker 2: call shamah. Right here o Israel, the Lord, our God
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  Speaker 2: is one Lord, and we worship him with everything we
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  Speaker 2: are in everything that we have. That one, that one ness,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord our God is one is echoed. That's a
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew terminology that has to do with unity, unity of purpose,
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  Speaker 2: unity of everything that matters. I'm oversimplifying, I know, for
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  Speaker 2: the scholars, just give me a second here, right, But
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  Speaker 2: that's what Jesus was saying when he said that we
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  Speaker 2: are to become one flesh in the same way that God,
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  Speaker 2: the Father, God, the Son, God, the Holy Spirit are one,
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  Speaker 2: unified in all things that matter. We our husbands and
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  Speaker 2: wives are to be no longer two but one, no
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  Speaker 2: longer two but one. And I'm thankful that God gave
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  Speaker 2: us that baseline, that is the beginning point. Unity of
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  Speaker 2: everything that matters is the baseline of us when we're married.
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  Speaker 2: Verse nine. What therefore again, God hath joined together, let
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  Speaker 2: not man put as under. And in the house's disciples
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  Speaker 2: asked him of the same matter, And he said, unto them,
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  Speaker 2: whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth
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  Speaker 2: adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away
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  Speaker 2: her husband and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. Does God love divorce?
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  Speaker 2: The answer is no, Did he make provision for a divorce? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Why because some of us are hard hearted, Some of
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  Speaker 2: us will step out in our marriages and look for
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  Speaker 2: other kinds of relationships with other people. We step out
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  Speaker 2: from our wives. Ladies, some of you, God forbid, would
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  Speaker 2: have stepped out on your husband and then had sexual
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  Speaker 2: intercourse and relations adulterous relationships with others. And God said
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  Speaker 2: that it's permitted. It is permitted for an unrepentant. When
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  Speaker 2: people are unrepentant and keep bringing like other people into
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  Speaker 2: your relationships, then God has made provision for that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: as far as I am concerned, there's nothing that Simone
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  Speaker 2: can do that would cause me to divorce her. We've
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  Speaker 2: been married twenty three years. I will not divorce Simone.
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  Speaker 2: That's a choice that I'm making because I believe that
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  Speaker 2: God can work out anything that goes God forbid wrong
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  Speaker 2: in our marital relationship. That is a decision that I'm making.
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  Speaker 2: God caused us to become one flesh, and I have
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  Speaker 2: no intention on breaking that up. That's just me speaking
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  Speaker 2: from my perspective. Okay, And so what we want to
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  Speaker 2: do is value commitment. We want to prioritize unity. We
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  Speaker 2: want to handle conflicts biblically. We want to protect vulnerable partners.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that our spouses are vulnerable. At all costs.
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  Speaker 2: We must protect them, protect their honor, and make sure
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  Speaker 2: that we are still in God's plan. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah.