The Secret to a Lasting Marriage

A lot of people get get into relationships based on contract. Here's what contract says. Contract says, these are the terms we agreed to. And if you don't meet the expectations that I've set in the agreed upon terms, then I'm checking out of the contract. You did not fulfill your promise. Where covenant means that I'm committed to us even in the hard times. That's why we say for better, for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health. Amen? Amen. Till death do us part. It's a covenant. [00:12:38] (42 seconds)  #ChooseCovenant

And by the way, the bible never commands us to fall in love. We're never commanded as followers of Christ to fall in love. We fall in love. That's a part of, you know, relationships. You know? You love your friends on one level. You love your kids on one level. You love your grandkids on a You know it. Amen. You love your spouse on a different level. But God says, you know, the emotion is a part of it, but I'm not calling you to fall in love. As a follower of Christ, I'm calling you to walk in love. [00:17:37] (51 seconds)  #WalkInLove

First John chapter three verse 18 says, little children, stop it. Stop saying we just we love people. Woo hoo. Okay. Yeah. All we need is love. Thank you. Let's just stop saying we love people. Hey. Can we really start loving them and do what? Show it by our actions. Why? Because actions speak louder than words. Words matter, but words are empty when the actions don't back them up. [00:23:55] (30 seconds)  #ActionsOverWords

You're gonna get hurt in your relationships. Humanly speaking, you know, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. What goes around comes around. No. No. No. We love as we've been loved. It's grace over grudges because if it weren't but for the grace of God. Amen? [00:23:35] (20 seconds)  #GraceNotRetribution

This is why Jesus Christ came. The bible says that we're lost and sin has separated us from God. The bible says because we're lost, we need to be rescued. The bible says we can't find our way back home. Listen to me. Religion is not the answer to the emptiness, the spiritual emptiness of your heart. [00:27:29] (22 seconds)  #RescuedNotReligion

The bible says that I have to by faith somebody say, by faith. By faith. That I have to by faith come to a point in my life where I ask Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of my sins. Where I realize that my sin has separated me from God, that Jesus is the savior, and I have a responsibility to ask him to forgive me, open up my heart, and invite him in. That's what John one twelve says, the bible. Some of you sitting in this room, you have opinions about Christ. I need you to move from your opinion to what God says about Christ. Because the bible is God's word. [00:28:49] (46 seconds)  #ComeByFaith

To all who believe him in Christ and accept him, you gotta believe in Jesus, but you gotta accept him. You gotta open up your heart to him. You gotta say, wow. I do believe there's a Christ. I'm just not in a relationship with him. I've never crossed this line and said yes to Jesus. That's what accepting means, that we ask him to be our savior. [00:29:54] (29 seconds)  #BelieveAndAccept

Then the father gave the right to these people who believe and accept to become children of God. People are like, oh, everybody's a child of God. Then the Bible's a bunch of lies. Then God's a liar. Because if the Bible is God's word and Jesus said my word is truth, and the Bible says that we have to become a child of God, then let's put our thinking caps on. That means then there's a point in our lives if I have to become something, that means there's a season of my life when I'm not that something. [00:30:44] (37 seconds)  #BecomingChildrenOfGod