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You Are In God's Sacred House- Max Lucado Daily Sermons · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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Speaker 1: Money.
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Speaker 2: If you brought your bibles, please open them to the
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Speaker 2: second Chapter or the Book of Genesis. You can find
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Speaker 2: the Book of Genesis. It's easy to locate first book
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Speaker 2: in the Bible. Go to the second chapter. In just
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Speaker 2: a few moments, we're going to read beginning in verse eighteen.
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Speaker 2: But before I begin this new summer series, let me
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Speaker 2: pause to thank God for the two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: two people. Two hundred and fifty two people who were
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Speaker 2: baptized into Christ last weekend on each of the seven
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Speaker 2: campuses of the Oakhills Church. People chose to demonstrate their
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Speaker 2: faith in baptism.
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Speaker 3: We give God all the glory. Amen.
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Speaker 2: We give God the thanks. We give God the praise
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Speaker 2: that he would choose to call these people into His
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Speaker 2: kingdom and that they would have the faith to demonstrate
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Speaker 2: their faith in a public baptism. So Lord, we want
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Speaker 2: to say thank you, Thank you Father for these miracles
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Speaker 2: of salvation. Thank you for the promise of eternal life,
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Speaker 2: for the assurance of your grace. Please forgive our speaker
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Speaker 2: Father for his sins or many and help us to
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Speaker 2: see just Christ today and through Christ. We pray, and
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Speaker 2: all the church said, Amen.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 2: If you were to Google the phrase most sacred spots
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Speaker 2: on Earth. You'd be taken on a world tour. You'd
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Speaker 2: see a picture and read about Ularo Cottage National Park
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Speaker 2: in Australia. It's a flat topped sandstone rock that stands
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Speaker 2: about eleven hundred feet in the air six miles around.
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Speaker 2: Then there is the Snoti Segrado in Mexico, a sacred
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Speaker 2: spring that was worshiped by the Mayans. They believed that
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Speaker 2: the God of Rain himself visited there once. Mount Sinai
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Speaker 2: in Egypt makes the list, as does the Crater Lake
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Speaker 2: of Oregon and Glastonbury Tour in England. Curiously, there's one
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Speaker 2: place that does not make the list, at least on Google,
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Speaker 2: but it certainly makes God's list. When he lists the
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Speaker 2: most sacred spots on Earth, he would include on it
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Speaker 2: your home. That's right, the residence where you live, that
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Speaker 2: spot on earth where your children play and your parents visit,
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Speaker 2: in your dog's slumbers. It's holy, it's sacred, and it's
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Speaker 2: set apart for a special purpose. Let's begin if you'd
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Speaker 2: like to follow on the outline talking about your holy home.
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Speaker 2: Jesus ordained marriage as holy when he said what God
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Speaker 2: joined together, Let not man separate. The Apostle Paul continued
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Speaker 2: this theme when he said, for the believing wife brings
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Speaker 2: holiness to her marriage, and the believing husband brings holiness
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Speaker 2: to his marriage. Otherwise your children will not be holy,
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Speaker 2: But now they're holy. The Hebrew writer agreed. He said,
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Speaker 2: honor marriage and guard thee.
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Speaker 3: What's the word.
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Speaker 2: Sacredness of sexual intimacy between.
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Speaker 3: Wife and husband?
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Speaker 2: Who would have imagined that the hallways, the bedrooms, the
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Speaker 2: kitchen of your world would be seen as God as
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Speaker 2: a holy spot. The word holy means set apart for
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Speaker 2: special work. God never set apart. Education is holy, the
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Speaker 2: government is holy, the shopping mall is holy. But God
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Speaker 2: sets apart the home is holy. Now, perhaps your family
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Speaker 2: is a tribe of people, full of kids and grandkids
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Speaker 2: and grandparents. Maybe it's just you and your sweetheart. Maybe
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Speaker 2: it's just you. Maybe it's an unpredictable assortment of siblings
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Speaker 2: and step brothers and nieces and nephews and stepsisters. The
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Speaker 2: population of the home may vary, But the promise of
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Speaker 2: God is not that He can take that home and
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Speaker 2: he can create.
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Speaker 3: Holy moments within it.
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Speaker 2: We need go no further than the second chapter of
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Speaker 2: the Bible to see the emphasis that God places on
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Speaker 2: the family. I'm reading from Genesis chapter two, verses eighteen
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Speaker 2: through twenty five. And the Lord God said, it is
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Speaker 2: not good that man should be alone. I will make
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Speaker 2: a helper comparable to him out of the ground. The
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Speaker 2: Lord God formed every beast of the field and every
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Speaker 2: bird of the year, and he brought them to Adam
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Speaker 2: to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam
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Speaker 2: called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam
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Speaker 2: gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the year,
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Speaker 2: to every beast of the field. But for Adam there
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Speaker 2: was not found to help her comparable to him. And
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Speaker 2: the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam,
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Speaker 2: and he slept, and he took one of his ribs
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Speaker 2: and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the
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Speaker 2: rib which the Lord God had taken from man, he
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Speaker 2: made into a woman, and he brought her to the man,
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Speaker 2: and Adam said, this is now bone of my bones
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Speaker 2: and flesh.
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Speaker 3: Of my flesh.
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Speaker 2: She shall be called woman because she was taken out
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Speaker 2: of man. Therefore, a man shall leave his father and
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Speaker 2: mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall
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Speaker 2: become one flesh, and they were both naked, the man
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Speaker 2: and his wife, and were not ashamed. Now by this
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Speaker 2: point in the Genesis narrative, the creation story is in bloom,
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Speaker 2: and after each element of creation of creation, God would
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Speaker 2: declare a triumphant verdict.
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Speaker 3: It is good.
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Speaker 2: The light is good, the firmament is good, the daytime
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Speaker 2: is good, the sea creatures are good. Everything is good.
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Speaker 2: He even once added a superlative, this is very good.
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Speaker 2: But then when God saw Adam all alone, what did
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Speaker 2: he say?
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Speaker 3: No, that's not good, that's not good.
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Speaker 2: And so God was the one who noticed that it
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Speaker 2: was not good that man be alone. It was not
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Speaker 2: Adam who said God is not good that I'm alone.
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Speaker 2: Adam did not say God, would you please consider causing
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Speaker 2: me to fall into a deep sleep, and I've got
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Speaker 2: a good rib here you can put to use. Would
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Speaker 2: you please consider forming a woman, give me a partner,
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Speaker 2: a person who is comparable to me, a counterpart to me.
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Speaker 2: This was never in Adam's mind. Adam never had these thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Everything began with God, and so we begin to see
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Speaker 2: the holiness of this relationship. It was born in the
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Speaker 2: mind of the almighty, ever present and loving God. How
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Speaker 2: would we expect anything different. God himself is a mysterious
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Speaker 2: union of the Father's Son and the Holy Spirit. So
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Speaker 2: man made in God's image would be made to experience
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Speaker 2: a mysterious union of his own. And so what follows
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Speaker 2: is one of the most humorous passages in the whole Bible.
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Speaker 2: I'd like to call it the peculiar Parade. God determined
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Speaker 2: I will make a helper comparable to him. And out
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Speaker 2: of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of
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Speaker 2: the field and every bird of the year, and brought
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Speaker 2: them to Adam to see what he would call them.
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Speaker 3: And whatever Adam called.
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Speaker 2: Each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave
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Speaker 2: names to all cattle, to the birds of the year,
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Speaker 2: and to the beasts of the field. But for Adam
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Speaker 2: there was not found a helper comparable to him. Now
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Speaker 2: this is surprising, isn't it. Having acknowledged that Adam needs
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Speaker 2: a helper, wouldn't we think that God would immediately create
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Speaker 2: the helper. Wouldn't we think that God would immediately get
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Speaker 2: about the task of creating the woman.
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Speaker 3: But before he.
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Speaker 2: Does that, he enlists Adam in a unique assignment. He says,
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Speaker 2: I want you to name all of the animals.
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Speaker 3: That I've created. What a moment that must have been.
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Speaker 2: And so here comes the zoo, Here comes all the animals.
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Speaker 2: Adam says, Ooh, you look like a hippopotamus. And now
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Speaker 2: that's a giraffe I've ever seen one. Oh, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: call you a monkey. Oh, mosquito, I wish you had
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Speaker 2: just slapped that one. You once and for all that
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Speaker 2: away with him must have been something to behold. But
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Speaker 2: at the conclusion of this naming parade, the scripture says,
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Speaker 2: but there was not found a helper comparable to him.
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Speaker 2: And suddenly we realize there's more going on here than
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Speaker 2: the distribution of name tax Adam was given a chance
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Speaker 2: to select a mate, and aren't we glad he found
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Speaker 2: no one. Adam did not drool when he saw the elephant,
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Speaker 2: his pulse did not quicken when he saw the hamster.
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Speaker 3: He loved the.
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Speaker 2: Song of the little bird, but he didn't want to
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Speaker 2: wake up to the canary every day. There was still
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Speaker 2: no helper just right for him. So this exercise was
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Speaker 2: for Adam's benefit, not God's. The real purpose here is
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Speaker 2: not just to name the animals, but to help Adams
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Speaker 2: realize he needs a partner who's special, wonderfully unique to
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Speaker 2: any creature that has yet to be made. And so
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Speaker 2: we're about to meet that person. Here comes the perfect companion.
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Speaker 2: And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall
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Speaker 2: on Adam, and he slept. He took one of his
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Speaker 2: ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then
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Speaker 2: the rib which the Lord God had taken from man,
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Speaker 2: he made into a woman, and he brought her to
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Speaker 2: the man. There is so much to be gleaned from
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Speaker 2: this passage. First, we see the power of a good nap.
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Speaker 2: Write it in the margin of your Bible. God does
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Speaker 2: his best work in men when they are sound asleep,
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Speaker 2: the snores of a man or music in heaven. For
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Speaker 2: this reason, today we designate the lazy Boy as an
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Speaker 2: altar of Christian service. Men, I urge each and every
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Speaker 2: one of you, before the end of the stay, to
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Speaker 2: be obedient to this ministry of slumber. And all the
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Speaker 2: men said, and all the women said, forget that. When
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Speaker 2: Adam awoke from his deep sleep, we do not know
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Speaker 2: if he noticed the missing rib. We're not told if
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Speaker 2: he had a scar on his side.
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Speaker 3: But we are sure he had stars in his eyes.
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Speaker 2: Adam said, now, this is now bone of my bones,
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Speaker 2: in flesh of my flesh. Loose translation, this is the
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Speaker 2: one for me. Hubba, Hubba, hubba. She shall be called
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Speaker 2: woe man because she was taken out of man. Therefore,
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Speaker 2: a man shall leave his father and mother and be
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Speaker 2: joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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Speaker 2: And they were both naked, the man and his wife,
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Speaker 2: and they were not ashamed. Adam did not have to
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Speaker 2: be told that she was the one. He just knew.
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Speaker 2: God brought her to Adam. The heavenly Father did what
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Speaker 2: fathers have done in weddings all over the world. On
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Speaker 2: the arm of her heavenly father, the first bride walked
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Speaker 2: the pine needle strewn path of the Garden of Eden,
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Speaker 2: and God said, she's for you. The family was God's idea.
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Speaker 2: The family was God's eyes idea. Over the next few weeks,
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk a lot about the family. But
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Speaker 2: if we went no further than that, one thought.
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Speaker 3: We would have enough.
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Speaker 2: The family a relationship of humans who come together in
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Speaker 2: a special arrangement under the protection.
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Speaker 3: Of a holy covenant.
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Speaker 2: A partnership between a man and a woman who stand
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Speaker 2: in the presence of God and by the power of God,
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Speaker 2: make a declaration of loyalty and fidelity. This is God's idea.
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Speaker 2: It's not Adam's idea. It's not E's idea. It's not
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Speaker 2: the government's idea. It's not a society's idea. It's not
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Speaker 2: the idea of a supreme court. It is the idea
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Speaker 2: of our supreme Being, the Almighty God. He created this idea.
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Speaker 2: So Moses, who most believed to be the author of Genesis,
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Speaker 2: could not resist the temptation here to do an application,
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Speaker 2: to do some teaching. It's the first teaching in the Bible.
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Speaker 2: Up until now, we've had narrative, we've had story, But
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Speaker 2: here comes application.
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Speaker 3: Moses, if he is the author.
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Speaker 2: Says, therefore, let there be and the old translation says
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Speaker 2: leaving and cleaving, always like that poetry. Let a man leave,
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Speaker 2: let a woman cleave, Let there be a leaving. Let
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Speaker 2: there be a severing of the umbilical cord to mom
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Speaker 2: and dad, Let each leave their homes. Let them come together,
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Speaker 2: And this beautiful Hebrew word is.
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Speaker 3: Employed that means glue. Glue.
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Speaker 2: Let them be glued together to the point where you
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Speaker 2: really can't tell where one starts and the other stops.
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Speaker 2: They become one flesh. And so, as we see in
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Speaker 2: the Book of Genesis, the family is a holy place.
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Speaker 2: It's an idea of God in a place where God
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Speaker 2: does his work. This is not an informal shacking up.
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Speaker 2: It's not a drunken party at a Las Vegas wedding chapel.
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Speaker 2: It's not a casual experiment to see if it works out.
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Speaker 2: It's not a social arrangement. It's not a civil union.
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Speaker 2: It's not a financial partnership. It's not a legal affiliation.
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Speaker 2: It is a holy union, so holy that God on
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Speaker 2: earth Jesus would remember this moment on earth and reflect
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Speaker 2: on the Garden of Eden experience when he said, for
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Speaker 2: this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother
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Speaker 2: and be joined to his wife, and the two shall
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Speaker 2: become one flesh. So then they are no longer two,
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Speaker 2: but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let
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Speaker 2: not man separate.
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Speaker 3: For this reason, Jesus says, for what reason?
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Speaker 2: For the reason that God did this, for the reason
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Speaker 2: that this isn't a work of two humans.
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Speaker 3: But this is a work of God.
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Speaker 2: For this reason we can dare to believe that something
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Speaker 2: is going to happen when two people leave their homes
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Speaker 2: and come together, and a matrimonial miracle happens. God takes
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Speaker 2: two people and he makes one. The one who turned
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Speaker 2: water into wine at the wedding is the one who
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Speaker 2: turns two people into one. At every wedding sense, we
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Speaker 2: see two people up on the altar. God sees one.
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Speaker 2: We hear ride in a groom making the vows. God
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Speaker 2: hears one voice. We see two people scooting down the
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Speaker 2: aisle to climb in the car and go on the honeymoon.
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Speaker 2: God sees one one. He brings two people together, and
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Speaker 2: he creates one. Full cycle, full circle. There was one
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Speaker 2: atom when God made Eve out of him, they were one.
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Speaker 2: God made two in marriage. God makes one again. It's
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Speaker 2: a mystery, it's a miracle, and it's a work of God. Please,
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Speaker 2: when you go home today, regardless of the population of
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Speaker 2: your home, regardless even of the happiness level in your home,
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Speaker 2: would you open yourself to this idea that when you
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Speaker 2: enter into that relationship of people that comprise your home,
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Speaker 2: you have stepped into.
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Speaker 3: A sacred spot. This is a holy place.
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Speaker 2: You'd be wise to remove your hat and bend your knees,
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Speaker 2: because God can do holy work even if the dishes
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Speaker 2: have not been done, even if the laundry is not finished,
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Speaker 2: even if there's tension in that home. The Almighty God,
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Speaker 2: the God of the Garden of Eden, is the God
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Speaker 2: who lives today. And let the devil himself hear these words.
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Speaker 3: God is at work in your home.
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Speaker 2: And since your home is God's idea, and since your
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Speaker 2: home is God's work, God can help restore life where there.
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Speaker 3: Seems to be nothing but sadness.
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Speaker 2: And the same God who blends the colors to make
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Speaker 2: the most beautiful sunsets is the God who can blend
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Speaker 2: human hearts to create a family of harmony. And the
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Speaker 2: same God who walked through the storm on the Sea
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Speaker 2: of galileeas the same God who can walk into the
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Speaker 2: stormy living room and bedroom and hallways of.
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Speaker 3: Your house and create peace.
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Speaker 2: You may see no hope, but since God is always
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Speaker 2: a God of hope, then there is always hope. It
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Speaker 2: just simply falls to you and me, to God to
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Speaker 2: do the work he so longs to do. And that
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Speaker 2: is the same work He did in the Garden of Eden,
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Speaker 2: to build a bridge, to bring people.
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Speaker 3: Together and create a home.
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Speaker 2: Most people, when they think about a marriage, they see
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Speaker 2: two people. They see a a he, and they see a.
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Speaker 3: There you go a she.
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Speaker 2: And that marriage is a relationship between the he and
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Speaker 2: the sheep. And they come into this relationship with such
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Speaker 2: high expectations. He says, she is going to satisfy me.
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Speaker 2: She says he is going to fulfill me. And they're
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Speaker 2: so loaded with expectations that because of the weight of
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Speaker 2: those expectations, disappointment and difficulty, perhaps even divorce is inevitable.
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Speaker 2: Because please hear me, he cannot be everything to her.
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Speaker 2: She cannot be everything to him. No human being, no
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Speaker 2: human being, can be everything to you.
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Speaker 3: No human being can.
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Speaker 2: No human being has ever been given the capacity nor
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Speaker 2: the assignment of fulfilling another person. I know the love
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Speaker 2: songs say differently, Oh she completes me, He fulfills me.
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Speaker 2: And from the heavens you can hear God say hogwash.
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Speaker 2: It cannot happen. Husband, if you're counting on your wife
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Speaker 2: to be everything to you, you're asking her to do
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Speaker 2: too much. Wives, if you're counting on your husband to
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Speaker 2: be everything to you, he will fail. He will disappoint you.
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Speaker 2: The first marriage was not limited to two parties, but
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Speaker 2: how many I only hear a couple of responses. I
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Speaker 2: really need a good one. Here, how many three who
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Speaker 2: made Adam and Eve, who brought them together, and with
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Speaker 2: whom were Adam and Eve intimately connected? God made him,
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Speaker 2: God made her Before there was this and this, there
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Speaker 2: was that and that. Right, so the strength of the
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Speaker 2: home as modeled in the Garden of Eden is not here.
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Speaker 3: But here.
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Speaker 2: Let this be a dotted line. Let this one be solid.
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Speaker 2: Let life come this way. Let there be forgiveness first
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Speaker 2: from God, man, God to woman.
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Speaker 3: Then there can be forgiveness between man and woman.
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Speaker 2: Let the man and the woman know they are loved
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Speaker 2: by God, cherished by God, chosen by God, and dwelt
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Speaker 2: by God, fulfilled by God.
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Speaker 3: Satisfied by God.
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Speaker 2: And then that man and then that woman will be
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Speaker 2: one good husband, one good wife. But if he expects
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Speaker 2: her or she expects him, to do what only God
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Speaker 2: can do, then the cycle of disappointment is predictable. There
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Speaker 2: will be a hardness of the heart, there will be disappointment,
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Speaker 2: and there will be sadness.
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Speaker 3: Now you can tell.
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Speaker 2: I bet that what is described in Genesis chapter two
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Speaker 2: is very different than what's described in the movies and
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Speaker 2: in society. Right, our understanding of the marriage goes contrary
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Speaker 2: to the teach of our culture. Society says that marriage
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Speaker 2: is disposable and redefinable.
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Speaker 3: God says marriage is holy and unchangeable.
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Speaker 2: Society says marriage is good as long as love is present.
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Speaker 2: God says marriage is good as long as God is present.
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Speaker 2: Society says marriage exists to make you happy. God says
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Speaker 2: marriage exists to make you holy. The family is the
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Speaker 2: work of God. When Dinlon and I were married, our
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Speaker 2: friend Carl Cope helped officiate the service. Imagine our surprise
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Speaker 2: when he opened his mouth and caused us to drop
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Speaker 2: our jaws by saying, I know you asked me to
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Speaker 2: marry you, but I cannot. And then he just let
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Speaker 2: that settle in the church for a few moments, and
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Speaker 2: then he smiled and said, but God can don't expect
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Speaker 2: a pastor to marry you. In fact, it might be
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Speaker 2: wise for us to not even say I'm gonna go
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Speaker 2: get married. It would be wise for us to say, Oh, God,
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Speaker 2: would you unite our hearts? Would you create a miracle
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Speaker 2: within us?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 2: I hope your home is happy. If it is, I
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Speaker 2: want you to know God can make it stronger. Maybe
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Speaker 2: your home is sinking. I want you to know God
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Speaker 2: can save it, because God is the God of the home.
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Speaker 2: There's never a time in which the home has no
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Speaker 2: hope if it's a holy work of God. Right, if
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Speaker 2: it's just left up to you and me, we'll run
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Speaker 2: out of strength and solutions and wisdom. But our God
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Speaker 2: can resurrect Jesus from the dead, and that same power
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Speaker 2: is alive in you, and that power can resurrect hope
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Speaker 2: where there has been no hope. Maybe you find this
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Speaker 2: hard to believe. Maybe you think of your home with
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Speaker 2: the dirty laundry and the unwashed dishes and the busy schedule,
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Speaker 2: and it seems more battleground than it does holy ground.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it is today, But I want you to have hope.
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Speaker 2: I want you to know God has not given up.
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Speaker 2: God has not walked away. For Heaven's sake, he brought
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Speaker 2: you here to remind you that the God of the
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Speaker 2: Garden of Eden is the God alive today.
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Speaker 3: And the one who.
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Speaker 2: Gave life to the first marriage can give life to yours.
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Speaker 2: And the one who created the first family can recreate yours.
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Speaker 2: Let's give him a chance to work his.
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Speaker 3: Miracle, shall we?
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Speaker 2: And if you think you've missed the chance to have
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Speaker 2: the fruits of a holy home.
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Speaker 3: Just remember.
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Speaker 2: God made the first home out of a snoring husband
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Speaker 2: and a piece a bone. Don't who think he can
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Speaker 2: do something with yours. Heavenly Father hear our prayers as
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Speaker 2: we think about our homes. There are those in this
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Speaker 2: prayer who who feel like their expectations for home have
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Speaker 2: been lost in the quicksands of disappointment. And there are
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Speaker 2: those who are absolutely without hope. There are those even
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Speaker 2: right now, who are separated from people they love.
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Speaker 3: Father, we ask you to please speak to those hearts,
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Speaker 3: to speak.
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Speaker 2: To those whose expectations have not been met, whose disappointments
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Speaker 2: are more numerous than their successes.
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Speaker 3: Would you please, Father, come to those and bring hope.
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Speaker 2: And then, Father, to those who feel like their marriages
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Speaker 2: are healthy, help them to be activated, even with a
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Speaker 2: sense of investing more in their marriage, so that holiness
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Speaker 2: could happened, that your presence could be sensed, and you're
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Speaker 2: work fulfilled.
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Speaker 3: We thank you Father through Jesus. We pray Amen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah m H.
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Speaker 1: Everything I used to live for faith is slowly.
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Speaker 2: Out of sight.
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Speaker 4: Now My days just circle around you like I'm lost
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Speaker 4: without life. All the noisees turns to silence when your
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Speaker 4: memory comes to and world I once was chasing and
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Speaker 4: now feel small.
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Speaker 3: Shape like you. My whole world is only you.
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Speaker 1: Every dark he's breaking through, You're so close inside my mind,
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Speaker 1: but so far and relife.
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Speaker 4: I can feel you everywhere, and the things we live sh.
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Speaker 1: All this love I'm going through never reaches you.
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Speaker 4: Every image feels so real now, like you're standing.
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Speaker 3: Next to me. But the truth is in the silence.
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Speaker 3: You are never then to see. My whole world is
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Speaker 3: only you.
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Speaker 1: Every darky speaking through. You're so close inside my mind,
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Speaker 1: but so far in real life. I can feel you everywhere,
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Speaker 1: and the things we live ship all this all I'm
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Speaker 1: going through, never reaching you.
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Speaker 3: If you fail to fall moment.
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Speaker 4: It would have changed the waves, stay would still be
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Speaker 4: shadow thatches face to.
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Speaker 1: My world is only your one is only your worlds
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Speaker 1: are different. I'm just someone passing by in your open Scott. Still,
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Speaker 1: I hold on to it through every Harvey calls for
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Speaker 1: you on this life, I always know we'll never read you.
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Speaker 3: Hm hm
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Speaker 2: Hmmm