Your marriage

“relationships in life respect and when respect is gone when respect is lost relationships suffer and struggle for survival it was Gary Thomas an author who has written over 15 books on marriage who wrote this in one of his books we are obsessed with being respected but rarely consider our own obligation to respect”

“that struggle with the addiction and the obsession of sexual morality, of pornography, of committing adultery. We have women who are broken, who are full of shame as they found out their husbands have been indulging in this or that they have had an affair where they would swear that they would never step out on their wife. They would never give in to their indulgences. But then they do this and then there's brokenness in the marriage. There's brokenness in the family. There's trauma that is experienced by the kids. There's so much that comes from this evil thing that so many people”

“sexual liberalization the sexual Liberation revolution of the 1960s set in motion a Cascade effect the reversal of the long-standing moral consensus around promiscuity separating sex from Marriage worked in tandem with the Advent of birth control and the legalization of abortion separating sex from procreation which moved on to the legalization of no fault divorce turning a covenant into a contract and separated sex from intimacy infidelity then to Tender and hook up culture separating”

“God who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. What does that? What does that mean? Well, he tells us, verse 19, that is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation the gospel therefore we are ambassadors of Christ God making his appeal”

“sinners, God began to work salvation and reconciliation on our behalf. Last week, we talked about the word redemption. This week, we're going to focus on the result of our redemption, and that is a word known as reconciliation. Conflict separates, conflict disrupts, but reconciliation heals. Reconciliation restores. Reconciliation mends. I want you to see it in”

“that we have His favor and His love, and there is nothing that we could do to separate us from Him. And so reconciliation, it begins with the implication of brokenness. What we see is that reconciliation is the means by which we receive blessedness. And then finally, what I want you to know as we close today, that reconciliation, since we have received this reconciliation,”

“and it was us that caused it. Reconciliation begins right there. And so reconciliation, reconciliation always implies brokenness. The whole of scripture, one commentator said, then is a record of God's reconciling us to himself. We ran away and he pursued us. We were scattered as sheep and he sent the good shepherd.”

“And so reconciliation begins with an acknowledgement of that. You know, our culture, they don't acknowledge it. They want to say, hey man, I'm just a good person. I was born good. I have a good heart. Why would God be mad at me if he's mad at me or if he does some sort of wrathful thing? He's the one that's in the wrong because I'm obviously not. But reconciliation begins by understanding that our relationship is separated”

“this idea of being reconciled, this reconciliation with God. And so the question is for us today, what in the world does that mean? It's a big church word, it's a big fancy theological word, but what does it actually mean and does it matter to me? Well, what is reconciliation?”

“through whom we have now received reconciliation. And so three times in this passage, we see and Paul speaks of those who have received reconciliation and are being reconciled in Jesus. And so here's what we can conclude. The direct result of our redemption that we discussed all last week is this concept and”

“Are you walking in that reconciliation? Are you walking in the acceptance and the assurance of being reconciled with God? Are you holding forth this ministry of reconciliation? Or do you sort of turn on Jesus when you're in these walls and you turn him off when you go out? That's not following Jesus. Following Jesus is making fishermen out of fish.”

“died for us since therefore we have now been justified by his blood much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. That's what we talked about last week. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more now that we are reconciled shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ”

“on those evil and wicked tenants. Guess what? We're the tenants. We're the ones who rebelled. And so there's this separation. Reconciliation, it always implies brokenness. But before we move on from that, I want to make sure that you truly get it. Because, you know, it's easy to think about that is, man, Adam and Eve, what were they thinking? You know, why would they do that? Or it's easy to say, yeah, our culture's really corrupt, or man, those people over there, they're really evil”

“John MacArthur says it this way. He says, if God had the power and the will to redeem us in the first place, how much more does he have the power and the will to keep us redeemed? If the dying Savior reconciled us to God, surely the living Savior can and will keep us reconciled. And so that's the way that we're meant to live, with this assurance, with this acceptance. That we walk before God, not perfectly, knowing that we are accepted and adopted,”

“is that reconciliation in Jesus, it always implies, first, brokenness. This is something that's very important. This is something that the world and our culture doesn't like to talk about. But in order for something to be reconciled, it has to first be broken. And we have to acknowledge that brokenness.”

“Verse 10 of our passage says this, it says, For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more now that we are reconciled shall we be saved by his life. What's that saying? What's that saying is that Jesus is not dead. He sits at the right hand of God the Father. He rules and reigns with God and he prays for us directly to God right there for our”

“consensus around promiscuity that separated sex from Marriage it worked in tandem with the Advent of birth control and the legalization of abortion separating sex from procreation which moved on to the legalization of no fault divorce divorce turning a covenant into a contract and separating sex from intimacy and fidelity then it turned to Tinder and hook up culture”

“They said, you know what, God, I'm not sure if you know what you're talking about. I need to look out for my own best interests. And so they put themselves on the center, and all of a sudden, sin is ushered into this perfect and holy creation. And as Paul says, the whole world was subjected to futility, division, dissension, death, separation, and mankind died spiritually.”

“it means that we have access to God. But it's not just access, it is acceptance. Colossians 1 says, And you, who were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.”

“I had hit a nerve that I didn't intend to hit. And then I saw anger. And my buddy, he was angry at me. And all of a sudden, I felt this distance in our relationship. There was a separation in our camaraderie. And fortunately at that time, I had the wherewithal to go and just”

“apologize to him and say, look, man, I did not mean to do that. That wasn't my heart. But it took a while. It took a while for our relationship to fully heal. Conflict is a real reality and it separates people, even friends. Now, I want you to imagine with me that you're experiencing a conflict, but I want you to imagine that that conflict is not with a close friend.”

“What that meant is that that thing that made us alive to God, that thing that gave us relationship with him was no more. And so there was a huge chasm of separation between us and God. If you're living your life and you're like, well, where is God? Well, that's what happened. He had to pull back his presence from his creation because of our rebellion. There's a popular question that's out right now all the time. And it's like, well, if God is so good and if there's a good God, why do all these bad things happen?”

“of a loving father, a father who's absolutely smitten over you. You see, I don't just tolerate tolerate my kids. I don't just tolerate their presence in my house and around wherever I am. I revel in it. My wife and I, we love our children. There is no one on the planet that can bring us”

“You can't reconcile something that is whole. And it's a key aspect to our faith. You see, the Bible talks about the very beginning of creation. And it paints this beautiful picture of a garden. And in this garden, God and his design was perfect for us. It was his heart. No pain, no suffering. There was harmony between man and God. He walked with us.”

“And this life is described as the blessed life. It's exactly what Jesus was preaching about in the Beatitudes, our previous sermon series. And so what we understand is that this blessedness, it is the result of the reconciling work of Jesus. I want you to see it in our passage, Romans 5, 1 through 2. It says, therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God.”