“My marriage is struggling”

“where to go some of you are dealing with a tribulation in your family your marriage is in trouble your marriage is struggling there's tribulation a child has walked away from the Lord and you're struggling with that tribulation tribulation is a reality and tribulation is an experience that we all know in life and it's a part of living in this Fallen World in the broken Brokenness of this world and the disappointment of this world as it is”

“difficulties, strained friendships, strained marriages, communication struggles, reoccurring conflict, betrayal. Some of us have emotional struggles, guilt, fear, disillusionment, discouragement, depression. And then there's those physical challenges, chronic pain, injury, disease, impairment. The bottom line is that pain, pain is everywhere. And when you're in the middle”

“Claire compassion and care but also great clarity from God's word as we need to know what does the bible tell us about marriages I think one of the reason our marriages and our families are struggling today is because we're so easily indwelling and believing lies of our culture John Mark Comer in his book live no lies he's also written ruthless elimination of hurry to my probably top five books we use live no lies when we preached our second Corinthians series and in that book he said this I think we”

“forgive find your enjoyment and being someone who ministers Mercy to others and that's especially true in the home Dan allender and tremper Longman said we must never be naive enough to think of marriage as a Safe Harbor from the fall the deepest struggles of life will occur in the most primary relationship affected by the Fall that's marriage it was Ruth Graham who said every marriage needs two good givers and two good for givers and to be merciful”

“known the things that I've done, like, man, you wouldn't love me. You wouldn't accept me. You wouldn't sit across from me. You would just judge me. You see, guilt looks at the behavior, but shames puts an emphasis on the person. You don't just feel like you failed, you feel like you're a failure. There's a lot of people in the room who struggle with shame. How about the supposed to bees? I mean, my marriage is supposed to be better than this. My husband's supposed to be like this. My”

“and marries another commits adultery so is there biblical precedent and means for divorce yes but what God has joined together he doesn't desire for any man including husband or wife to separate and just think about this from a second for for a second from God's point of view of his Covenant commitment to us you see when you become a Believer and you repent of your sin and you put your life and your trust and your hope in”

“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?”

“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.”

“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”

“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”

“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.”

“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”

“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”

“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,”

“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”

“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.”