Battle For Marriage
November 8, 2020
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The Winning Walk is the international teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young.
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Battle For Marriage
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- Ed Young: In mythology, there'sa story entitled, "When the
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- Mouse Ate the Cookie."
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- A mouse knocked on the door of ahome, a boy looked out and said,
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- "What do you want?"
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- And the mouse said, "All I wantis a cookie."
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- And in this mythological story,the mouse came in, the boy gave
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- him a cookie and he said, "Doyou have some milk?"
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- He went and poured him somemilk, he said, "Do you have
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- a straw?"
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- He went and got him with strawand the mouse said, "I would
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- also like to have a napkin," andhe went and got him a napkin.
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- And as a story in mythologygoes, finally, the mouse had
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- eaten everything in the houseand had eaten the house itself
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- and the boy was in the cold andfroze to death.
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- When we become post-ChristianAmerica and we're about that far
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- away from it, post-ChristianAmerica will not be enough.
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- All of a sudden they will haveto be an anti-Christian America
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- because the mice are everywhereand they're seeking to redefine
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- every thing in our culture.
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- If you will think and look atthe major questions we're facing
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- in the moral realm it all dealswith sexuality and how we handle
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- this basic drive that's in everyperson, sexuality.
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- And in the battle of sexuality,we have pulled out the very
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- front line of that battle andit's the battle for marriage.
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- Marriage, ladies and gentlemen,marriage is the foundation upon
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- which all of civilization rests,let me say that again.
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- Marriage is the basic foundationupon which all
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- civilization rests.
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- Genesis 2, verse 22, Eve wascreated from the rib of Adam,
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- and that little verse says, thatGod took Eve to Adam.
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- Marriage, first institution,first word, the bottom line, the
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- foundational rock upon whicheverything else is built.
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- From marriage comes family,comes life, life worth living.
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- Now let me go back and reviewmarriage, we've already looked
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- at Genesis, God says we're tocleave, become one flesh
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- with no shame, right?
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- Naked with no shame.
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- By the way, that naked with noshame, most of us, well, that
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- means that the nakedness thereisn't just a physical negative,
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- that's a little bitty thing, thenakedness there
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- is vulnerability.
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- When you get married, when I getmarried, we are vulnerable to
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- the person to whom we'remarried, male or female, and in
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- marriage you have the besttraining for selfless love
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- you'll ever get.
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- Marriage trains us for selflesslove and that's important, it is
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- in that environment by the waythat we really see all of
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- our sin.
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- I can explain away my sin, I canrationalize, I can play the
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- game, I can be a phony and wecan go through life
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- semi-hypocritical to people whoknow us, but in marriage we see
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- ourselves, and those who do notsee themselves and their
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- shortcomings in marriage, that'swhat it means to be transparent,
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- to be open.
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- "Marriage is a mystery," Paulsaid, it is training in selfless
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- love and it's understanding theproblems, the inequities, the
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- hypocrisy in your life and mylife, it will be exposed, that's
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- what it means to be open andnaked with your mate.
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- Now Jesus talks about marriage,he expounds on the Genesis
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- passage, look at it in Markchapter number 10, beginning
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- with verse 6, "From thebeginning of creation God made
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- them male and female," God gaveus gender.
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- "For this reason a man shallleave his father and his
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- mother," God gave us marriage,"And the two shall become one
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- flesh," God gave us sex.
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- And says, "So they are no longertwo, but one flesh," God gave us
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- a new identity.
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- "What therefore God has joinedtogether, let no man put
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- asunder," God has given usexclusivity.
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- This is all involved in thebeautiful, glorious mystery of
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- marriage, look what God hasgiven us, it is a wonderful
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- thing and it's a sacred thing,but what happened to so
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- many marriages?
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- Sometime it's infidelity, it'sadultery destroys so many
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- marriages, you say, "What's theleading problem of the
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- destruction of marriage todaythat leads to that deadly thing
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- called divorce?"
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- By the way, divorce is suicide,do you know that?
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- It's suicide, because when twobecome one flesh, okay, there's
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- a new person and when that newperson dies through divorce that
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- is suicide.
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- Let me say, there are groundsfor divorce, make no mistake
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- about it, biblical grounds fordivorce, and where there are
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- grounds for divorce in the Biblethere's always grounds for
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- remarriage when they're biblicalgrounds.
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- But let me say that divorcecomes because sometime of money,
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- sometimes of immorality, let metell you something
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- about divorce.
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- We've heard for a long time welldivorces are 50:50 in divorces.
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- The truth is, today, fewerpeople are getting married.
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- In 1960, 70.2% of the people whowere of a marriageable age got
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- married, 1960, 72%+ got married.
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- Today, and the past five or sixyears, about 51% of those who
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- are in marriageable age getmarried, isn't that interesting?
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- Wonder why that is.
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- So much people are livingtogether and are not married,
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- they're cohabitating togetherand they're not married.
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- In fact, more children arebrought up in homes where the
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- man and the woman are notmarried than in homes where
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- there is a divorce.
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- The cohabitation has doubledsince the turn of the century,
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- doubled since the turn of thecentury, and therefore we look
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- at divorce, it's no longer 50%.
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- Divorce from those who aremarried from 2000 following is
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- about two-thirds remain married,one-third getting a divorce,
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- isn't that interesting?
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- And that one-third to get adivorce, we seen in some polls,
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- well 50% of them are Christians.
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- But the name Christian, thetitle Christian, and recently I
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- don't know whether it was PewResearch or Barna who said it,
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- they said let's look at thatlittle error, how many divorces
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- take place where the couple'sworship together?
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- Worship together, not just thegeneral, broad title, "I've been
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- baptized, I'm a member there."
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- Oh no, not just in general, howmany divorces take place out of
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- that one-third that getsdivorced today that they
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- worshiped together, and this newsurvey said 3%,
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- did you hear that?
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- 3%, because if we worshipcorporally on the weekend that
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- leads us to believe there'sworship privately together,
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- sometimes the rest of the week.
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- It is a beautiful word aboutwhat it means to worship God
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- regularly and faithfully in hishouse and in our homes,
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- so interesting.
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- But on the other side of thecoin, there's a bill before the
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- legislature in Mexico and thereare some in our government now,
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- who're proposing that ifmarriage is simply a contract,
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- let's start off with a minimumof two years.
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- You know, let's write a contractand it'll be a contract of two
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- years, you could have a fiveyear contract, it could have
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- provisions for renewal.
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- If it's simply a civic matter,let's just sign up for a certain
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- time and see if we want torenew.
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- Some people think, "Boy, thatwould be a great idea."
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- So we have a whole new world ofmarriage but marriage is a gift
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- of God, it is a sacred thing.
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- And I'll tell you somethingladies and gentlemen, when we
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- work at it and we grow and wegive the highest priority to the
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- happiness of our mate and ourmate gives the highest priority
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- to us, you have a marriage thatsings, that works, that is
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- alive, that is holy.
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- Life is sacred, we know that,we're made in the image of God
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- and the sexual part of life issacred, we've talked about that.
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- And marriage is the holy partthat God has given us, as a
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- provision for procreation, aprovision for pleasure and a
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- symbol of the relationshipbetween the Christian and the
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- bridegroom, which is the LordJesus Christ.
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- Powerful, powerful basic entity,but marriage is under attack
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- today, it has been redefined.
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- Let me begin by saying, 2013,the all-wise Supreme Court found
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- in the 14th Amendment somethingthat you have to be a legal
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- gymnast to figure out, but whenyou can read something and you
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- can make it mean anything youwant it to mean, in postmodern
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- understanding they found theprovision for gay marriage,
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- amazing, amazing, astounding.
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- And let me say up front, thereis no such thing as gay
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- marriage, it doesn't exist, gayis not a modifier of marriage.
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- You see, marriage is a thing, itexists, it has been defined,
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- it is something.
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- You know more can say, "Well,I'm gonna make a circle into a
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- square," try that one out.
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- A whole new world of geometry,here is a circle but it's now a
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- square and you say, "Well thisis a new form of marriage," it
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- is not, it is impossible becausemarriage has been defined.
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- Let me rush and say once again,as I've already stated, we in
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- the body of Christ acceptanybody and everybody.
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- We have adulterers, we havefornicators, we have liars, we
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- have murderers, we have thosewho are engaged in every kind of
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- immorality in the body ofChrist, they are here.
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- All are welcome, we acceptanybody and everybody but
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- acceptance does not meanaffirmation, and we do not
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- applaud, we accept, we seek thelove and care and listen to
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- every one of us, and we are awhole bunch of people of messed
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- up lives; every single one of ushere, with no exceptions.
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- But we have acceptance and thenwe see, what kind of acceptance
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- is it?
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- There is a social acceptance, weaccept people socially, the
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- Bible teaches this.
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- In biblical days, when you sitdown to eat with someone, you
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- were associating with them,Peter was accused of this, Paul
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- got in trouble with this, yousit down, there is social
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- acceptance and there is legalacceptance.
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- Certainly, legally, we would notsay, "Boy, put this person in
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- jail," we have legal acceptanceof all people in the body
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- of Christ.
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- But then there's intellectualacceptance, that's a different
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- thing, that's a different thing.
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- So we look and see we cannotintellectually and biblically,
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- because of what the Bibleteaches about this lifestyle,
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- there'll be an accommodationthere but there'll be no
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- applause and no affirmation,why?
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- Intellectually, we know what Godhas said, have you noticed
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- something folks?
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- Just for a way of illustration,have you ever seen any body
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- seeking to live inspired by theSpirit, by Biblical principles,
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- as a single or as a marriedperson, by biblical principals
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- and their life is all messed up,have you ever heard of that?
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- No, you never will, God's wayfor marriage and life and
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- sexuality is a way that really,genuinely, always works, always
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- functions properly andbeautifully.
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- So then you have intellectualacceptance, no, social
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- acceptance, yes, legalacceptance, certainly,
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- intellectual acceptance, no,because we have principles by
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- which we go.
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- For example, let's say that youcame to me and said, your
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- friend, "I accept you legally,accept you socially," and you
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- say, "You know, if you put sandin your gas tank, it will really
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- help your car to run, it will bea super thing."
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- Now intellectually, I don'tthink this would work,
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- "No-no-no," I say, "You know,I'm not gonna do that."
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- "Well, it's a wonderful thing.
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- I put a little sand in my gastank, my car's running better
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- than it ever has before."
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- I'd say, "No, intellectually, Ican't agree with that, I can't
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- accept that intellectually," andthen you'd say, "Well, you know,
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- you're welcome to do that,that's your choice, you put sand
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- in your tank if you want to,that's fine, but I have reason
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- to think if you keep on puttingsand in the gas tank, you know
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- what'll happen?
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- That filter will gradually getclogged, little filter that
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- protects the rest of the motorand that filter is clogged.
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- As it's getting clogged your gasper miles will begin to slow
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- down and your motor will not befunctioning, but when it's
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- totally clogged, bang, that carwill stop."
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- This is the way it is we wouldsay to those who are engaging in
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- a lifestyle that's contrary tothe principles of God, whatever
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- that lifestyle may be, whateverform of immorality it would be.
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- You're putting sand in the gastank of your life, immorality in
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- the gas tank of your life.
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- It may seem good, it may feelgood, it may look good but
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- eventually your life will beclogged up and you will not
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- function as God Almighty hasdesigned you to function.
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- So this is the way that we haveto live, acceptance but not
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- affirmation, love and then weseparate the lifestyle from
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- the life.
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- In other words, we love thesinner but hate the sin, but in
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- the LBGT lifestyle, they definethemselves by what they do, and
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- we would say to anyone in thislifestyle, "You're more than
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- that, you're you're bigger thanthat.
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- We love you as a person but wedo not approve your lifestyle,
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- it's like putting sand in thegas tank, in a period of time it
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- will destroy your health, it'lldestroy your mentality, it'll
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- destroy your acceptance andyou'll be in big trouble in this
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- life and even, of course, withGod."
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- I would say that to anadulterer, I'd say that to a
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- liar, I'd say that to anybodyand I would say that we don't
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- need to be identified by what wedo, God loves us and we're to
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- love one another as to theperson that we are, and that's
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- so important we make thatparticular distinction.
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- Now, it's difficult;
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- for all of us, we're allsinners and by the
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- way, these new sins are no worsethan my sins or your sins.
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- If my sin is sin of anger it maybe just a deadly in God's sight
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- or more so than the sins of theflesh.
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- The difference of sexual sins,they take place inside your
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- body, the Bible says, it isinside kinda, whereas other sins
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- are out here, that's the problemwith sexual sin whatever form it
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- may take.
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- Remember, we've alreadyestablished, let me say it
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- again, that in marriage there'sfreedom, there is celebration,
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- and every other kind of sexualrelationship is porneia and
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- forbidden by God, every otherkind of sexual relationship.
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- Marriage, celebration, freedom,every other sexual relationship
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- is porneia, forbidden by God,but let me tell you something.
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- Don't, in the process of allthis battle in which we're in,
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- it's a battle for marriage, thegoal is to eliminate marriage
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- altogether, make no mistakeabout it.
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- It's like the mouse who ate thecookie, keep on going, keep on
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- going, til the whole moralclimate is totally changed and
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- we know longer have aJudeo-Christian country.
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- We have a country that isgodless, that is nothing but
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- humanism and another thing, ifit feels good it must be all
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- right mentality, but that's nothow marriage is meant to be.
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- This week, a friend I've knownfor a long time from South
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- Carolina called me and hebrought me up to date.
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- Man, he's 91 years old, he wasmarried for 65 years, his wife
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- died a few years back, he wastelling me about all of his
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- children whom I knew and whothey'd married and their
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- children and our greatgrandchildren and
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- great-great grandchildren.
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- He had almost 40 in that number,and it is beautiful to hear just
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- almost every one of them arewalking with God in Jesus
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- Christ, I said, "What a legacyyou have, Russell."
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- And he told me about his wifeand said, "She died a few years
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- ago the day after our 65thwedding anniversary."
- 00:21:03.585 --> 00:21:08.223
- Said, "She was in the hospitaland said every year we were
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- married I took her a long stemred rose," he said, "I took 65
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- long stem red roses in a vase upto her hospital," he said,
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- "Almost killed me carrying itup."
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- He said, "I gave it to her andshe smiled, and said, 'You know,
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- Russell, I'm just ready to gohome,'" he said, "Honey, if
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- you're ready to go home, gohome."
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- Next day, she graduated.
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- That reminded me of a classicstory along the same line, I put
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- it in my book on the 10Commandments of Marriage and
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- it's a wonderful story aboutanother couple.
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- They were friends all the waythrough school and high school,
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- they became boyfriend andgirlfriend and he wanted to
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- marry her, and her dad said,"Not until she graduates from
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- high school."
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- So she graduated at 10 o'clockin the morning, they got married
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- at seven o'clock that night, andit was the kinda couple when
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- you'd see one you'd see theother.
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- They played together, theylaughed together, they travelled
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- together, they were in businesstogether in the car business,
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- and they just did everything,they were inseparable, they were
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- like the dynamic duo.
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- And they lived in Arizona andthey had a magnificent life, a
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- magnificent family and they werejust in harmony, they were a
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- team, totally one, a team.
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- But they'd been married for 72years and they were in a
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- catastrophic automobileaccident, both of them crushed,
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- critical condition.
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- They were in the hospital andthe nurses and doctors would go
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- see her and she'd say, "Well howis he doing?
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- Go see him, I'm going to be allright," they'd go see him, he'd
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- say, "No-no, get out of here, gosee her, how's she doing?"
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- And when they realized that bothof them were on the very edge of
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- death, they put them in the sameroom side by side in a bed.
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- And these are two that hadcheered for the University of
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- Arizona, they'd been born there,they were just a team, and
- 00:23:22.357 --> 00:23:25.427
- immediately got side by side,bang, they started holding
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- hands, holding hands.
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- He died first, the families theysaid, "Your dad is gone," and
- 00:23:32.501 --> 00:23:38.373
- the son said, "Oh no, no-no-no,look-look, his heart monitor is
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- still beating, he's alive."
- 00:23:42.511 --> 00:23:45.380
- Nurse said, "No, they're holdinghands so tightly, so tightly
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- that her heartbeat is going allthe way into his heart and
- 00:23:50.652 --> 00:23:55.724
- that's the reason his monitor isstill beating."
- 00:23:55.757 --> 00:23:59.794
- An hour later, an hour later shedied.
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- And the son said at theirmemorial service a beautiful
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- thing, he said, "You know, mydad always said, 'A good woman
- 00:24:10.138 --> 00:24:15.677
- is worth waiting for.'"
- 00:24:15.710 --> 00:24:19.648
- And he said, "God took him homefirst and he waited right
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- outside of heaven until my momgot there and they went in
- 00:24:25.320 --> 00:24:32.761
- together and met Jesus."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Ed Young: That is God's designfor marriage.
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- Ed Young: Ladies and gentlemen,we are in a war.
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- by those who wish to remove Godfrom our world.
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- our culture.
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- In his series, "Culture Clash,"Dr. Ed Young gives us the
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- Ed Young: We're in a war, we allknow that, in the culture in
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- which we live.
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- We've already talked about a warfor the Bible, which really was
- 00:25:57.212 --> 00:26:00.048
- only a part of the war, it was abattle.
- 00:26:00.081 --> 00:26:02.484
- There's a battle for the Bible,there's a battle for life, and
- 00:26:02.517 --> 00:26:06.688
- there is a battle for marriage,marriage is under siege today.
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- We try to juxtapose two thingsas we've talked about it,
- 00:26:13.862 --> 00:26:17.666
- traditional marriage and gaymarriage, and the bottom line is
- 00:26:17.699 --> 00:26:21.403
- there's no such thing as gaymarriage and there's no such
- 00:26:21.436 --> 00:26:24.339
- thing as traditional marriage.
- 00:26:24.372 --> 00:26:26.141
- You don't say, "I have atraditional elbow."
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- Marriage, as we have stated, isclearly defined, you can't say,
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- "A triangle is a circle," nomatter how many times you try.
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- Marriage is a man and a woman.
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- Therefore, it's important thatwe, in our culture, understand
- 00:26:40.989 --> 00:26:44.693
- there is a war going on for theintegrity of marriage between a
- 00:26:44.726 --> 00:26:49.731
- man and a woman; not a contractbut a covenant with God right in
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- the middle of it.
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