61. What the Bible Says About Marriage (Marriage Series Intro)

Marriage as the Foundation of Civilization

Welcome back to the podcast where we prod the sheep and beat the wolf. This is episode 61 in the beginning of a brand new series on marriage. Now you may be asking why start a marriage series? Well, the downfall of every civilization begins with the collapse in marriage.

In the beginning God designed coveted marriage as the fundamental unit of human society. He called one man and one woman to enter into a one-flesh union that would bring fruitful labor into every neighborhood.

That would multiply God's blessings into every town. It would extend God's reign his dominion to the ends of the earth. And would bring the kind of stability that would establish empires and kingdoms for generations.

Without healthy and God glorifying marriages There will be no culture worth preserving. There will be no society that is left to flourish. There will be no nation. Think about it this way. There's a fully ripened apple tree.

But in a moment of peculiar madness a farmer takes a baseball bat and knocks every single one of those delicious Honey crisp apples right off of the tree. Now on the surface nothing would happen except maybe there would be a noticeable lack of apple pies for Thanksgiving but you know suppose the Farmer saw the error in his ways and he noticed that that such an action was not good.

The apples would come back the following year. There would be no catastrophic or long-lasting consequences for his moment of stupidity. But the same could not be said if that farmer decided to take an axe and attack one of the exposed roots of the tree that are visible above the soil in fact.

With every single root that he severs a specific section of the tree would die until the entire Tree was starved of its nutrients. That is precisely What the enemy has done to civilization since the Garden of Eden but instead of attacking its fruit directly He's gone after the root of things poisoning one family after another until the entire society withers.

But instead of using an axe the devil has attacked the root with various different schemes and tactics. He struck the core of femininity so that no one even knows what a woman is anymore. He severed the essence of manhood producing the twin diseases of over aggressive imbeciles and passive effeminate ninnies.

He's poised in the roots of sexuality so much that a bisexual tree fairy with the pronouns Z Zim Mating with a queer curious furry named mitten seems more natural these days than a lifelong covenantal spouse.

The Attack on Manhood, Womanhood, and Sexuality

Manhood and womanhood are under attack. Marriage and sexuality are under attack in every institution from Hollywood all the way to the lizards of this of the District of Columbia Is aimed at perverting our children?

It's high time that the church says enough and it's high time that we begin fighting for the only institution that God called Very good, and that is marriage. That's why I want to do a series on marriage.

But with that said I have zero interest in contributing my opinion on the matter. Every year a new Christian book on marriage is published and every year Divorce infidelity abortions and a host of other societal preferred perversions increase.

Now it needs to be said by someone at least that every page of our Christian book publishing apparatus has become as useful to the health of marriage as 10 pounds of used toilet paper has been for cleaning dirty dishes.

Which if you're not following the metaphor not successful at all. So this series is going to be different. I don't want to add to the growing noise with anecdotes funny stories or bare lived-out experiences.

What the Bible Says About Marriage, Sex, and Gender Roles

I may provide some Things for my life that have helped me but that's not gonna be the point of it. The point is that this is gonna be a series on what the Bible says How the Bible defines marriage sex manhood womanhood gender roles and all of the other hosts of topics that are long? overdue for us to have talked about.

So with that join us next week as we begin this new series on marriage together until then God bless you.