Marriage: Why Is It Worth Defending? (part 2) - [Ephesians 5:25ff]

I don't know what your definition of marriage is. Things have changed over the years. The American Dictionary of English Language in 1828 said this for the definition of marriage. The act of uniting a man and woman for life.

Wed lock marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes for promoting domestic felicity and for securing the maintenance and education of children.

More recently in Merriam-Webster they define marriage as. Quote the mutual relation of husband and wife. Wedlock the institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family even more theologically neutered.

The Cambridge Dictionary describes marriage this way. A legally accepted relationship between a woman and a man in which they live as husband and wife. On Carta online dictionary said. A legal relationship between spouses a legally recognized relationship established by a civil or religious ceremony between two people who intend to live together as sexual and domestic partners.

And what we've noticed over the years is if you don't like something one of the best things you could do is just add on adjectives to accommodate the sin of men and women. For instance you have marriage but then you add on a word in the front civil marriage.

It's a marriage performed by a magistrate or common law marriage. You just live together and we call it marriage. You can add other words to marriage and turn them into something shotgun marriage right.

Where someone is forced to get married for obvious reasons. An open marriage where partners just say you know what we'll have sexual relationships with anybody we want. Of course now even we have the word in front of marriage gay marriage or homosexual marriage.

Christ and the Church as the Meaning of Marriage

My sermon this morning is essentially this. When you think of the Lord Jesus and his work for us as a substitute. I just want you to think of marriage. And when you think of marriage I want you to think about the Lord Jesus Christ.

I'd like you to take your Bibles and turn to Ephesians chapter five. Today hopefully next Sunday we'll be in the book of second Peter. So please begin to read second Peter. It is one of those books where you just think oh so refreshing so convicting so Christ-centered.

I want to talk today about the relationship that Jesus has with his church so that will hold you like an anchor kind of more you to the truth so that when people redefine marriage you don't buy what they're selling.

Melinda Selma said a man may lie to himself very prettily but he cannot really escape from the knowledge that it is a lie. Aristotle said men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.

Marriage is defined in many ways. Maybe you're even asking yourself the question why would there even be marriage. There are a few in scripture to magnify the Lord and glorify him for procreation for enjoyment including sexual and emotional and physical spiritual companionship.

God gives a helper to Adam to raise up children for the Lord. Martin Luther said people who do not like children remember Luther is Luther is definitely. He's definitely New England. Okay. So you ready.

People who do not like children are swine dunces and blockheads not worthy to be called men and women because they despise the blessing of God the creator and author of marriage. But what we saw last week the most important part about marriage and and what it's meant to do or why marriage show us Christ's love for the church.

It's a symbol. It tells us about an eternal arrangement between the Lord Jesus and his church his bride the elect ones. And so when you talk about holy matrimony you have to talk about Jesus. And when you talk about Jesus you're talking about holy matrimony.

Some people leave Jesus out of their sermons which isn't good. And some people leave Jesus out of their marriage definition which isn't good either. So we come to Ephesians 5. You're familiar with the passage.

This is all something that we're supposed to be very familiar with. Because those people in Christ who've been saved from their sins who are united with Christ they're in union with Christ. They realize they have to live differently.

The world might say live this way. But now that we're redeemed and we're saved and we're different. We walk as children of the light not as darkness. So there's a difference. And how do we act. What do we do.

We need to be thinking about marriage not as something that's just convenient or good or pleasurable or nice or tax deduction. But it relates to did anybody just laugh at that. We just laugh for tax deduction.

Who knows how long that will last. We need to be thinking about the doctrine of of who Jesus is and how he loves people. And we saw that last week. Did we not. For a quick review everything about this passage swirls around the word love.

This agape self-sacrificial love. I want what's best for you. That's what love does. And how much does the Lord Jesus want our best. Well straight to the cross he goes. Does he not. He sets his mind like a flint to the cross.

And it says in verse 25 with no moralism at all husbands love your wives. And here's the ground. Here's the model. Here's the symbolism we were talking about last time. Love your wives. It's an act of your will.

Just as or as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. What a great picture of love this is. You say which one. The husbands loving the wives. Or Jesus loving the church. Yes they just go right together.

And you see this this love that Jesus has for the church. How much did Jesus love the church. That's the question. So much that he gives himself. You see the text we looked at last week. He gave himself up for her.

He was delivered over for our transgressions Romans 4. He was delivered up because the father did not spare him Romans chapter 8. It's a love that doesn't say you know what you earn it. Of course as I'm talking about Jesus I'm trying to think as a husband.

And you husbands ought to be thinking when it comes to loving my wife. Do I say well you know what. She hasn't earned my love today. She hasn't deserved my love today. She's been moody today. She hasn't appreciated me today.

She hasn't done this today. She hasn't done that today. She hasn't done the other today. And so therefore I'm not going to be reciprocal in my love. Does that sound like Jesus' love. Doesn't sound like Jesus' love at all.

Field Marshal Montgomery said to his young soldiers gentlemen don't even think about marriage until you've mastered the art of warfare. Dying to self loving based not on who they are or what they bring to the table.

Or are they lovely. Because of course we know before we were born again we weren't lovely. We didn't deserve it. It was unmerited. It was demerited. Favor we call that grace. Do we not. Where Jesus loved us and sought us.

And Jesus is the one who seeks out sinners. Jesus said I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. Not because they were pretty sheep. Nice sheep. You probably heard the old saturday evening post article.

The seven ages of a married cold. How a husband treats his wife's colds during the first seven years of marriage. Year one. Sugar dumpling. I'm really worried about my baby girl. You've got a bad sniffle.

There's no telling about these things going around with all this strep. I'm putting you in the hospital this afternoon for a checkup and a good rest. I know the food's lousy but I'll be bringing in your meals from Rossini's.

I've already got it all arranged with the floor superintendent. Second year. Listen darling. I don't like the sound of that cough. I call Doc Miller and ask him to rush over here. Now you go to bed like a good girl.

Please just for papa. Year three. Maybe you better lie down. Honey. Nothing like a little rest. When you feel lousy I'll bring you something to eat. Have you got any canned soup? Fourth year. You're not laughing as much.

Now just wait. Fourth year. Now look dear be sensible. After you fed the kids wash the dishes and finish the floor. You better lie down. Fifth year. Why don't you take a couple of aspirin. Sixth year.

I wish you'd just gargle or something instead of sitting around all evening barking like a seal. I'm gonna alter the seventh one. Just you'll know why. Seventh year. For Pete's sake. Stop sneezing. Are you trying to give me the COVID.

That's the last time you're going to laugh in the sermon. By the way I hope you enjoyed it. And when Jesus comes and loves the bride there's kind of an ultimate purpose to all this. And it's found in verses 26 and 27.

And just think about wedding language. And uh... the glory of the wedding dress. And the white purity and the splendor. And how beautiful she looks. And a pure chaste bride for the husband. Why does Jesus do this.

What's the purpose that he might sanctify her verse 26 having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word so that he might present the church. This is Jesus to himself in splendor. That's the kind of bride he has.

That's what he does with his work and love without spot or wrinkle or any such thing that she might be holy and without blemish shining bright pure beautiful dazzling. Brilliant is not just the wedding dress but the bride herself.

It reminds me of the church's one foundation hymn by Samuel Stone. From heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride with his own blood. He bought her and for her life. What? He died. He loved and he gave and he died.

The most important thing about marriage is the doctrine of Christ loving the church. It's an eternal arrangement. Is it not. Jesus said in John 17 I glorified you father on earth having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

When did he give him the work at the transfiguration. At Jesus' baptism. At Jesus' birth the father gives the son this work to do in eternity past. It's an eternal arrangement. Go rescue the bride. Go love the bride.

Lay down your life for the bride. Jesus had to be born to go do that very thing. But he keeps going. And this is new for us from last week we ended up in verse 27 ending there today we're gonna pick up in verse 28 and you see how he just moves from husbands to the Lord.

And of course we'll see from the bride of Christ to the wives in the same way he's got a different appeal here in the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

And it's fascinating now there's some individual language here. It's not just general all you husbands but you feel that kind of finger from Nathan. And I won't point at anybody right now. But just imagine the Lord is pointing to you because he's directing this to you husbands.

He who loves his wife loves himself. They're fused into this entity right into one in every area. Women aren't property. Wives aren't nice ornaments. Jesus said they're no longer two but one flesh. But therefore God has joined together let no man separate.

It is rare to find somebody that does kind of self hurt things. And so what Paul is saying is you know what. Since you're a husband and wife and you're together when you love your wife you're loving yourself.

That's why John Calvin said men who don't love their wives are monsters. This is an obligation. And it's not anybody else's wife. Dear husbands it's your own wife. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Verse twenty nine. Why. Here's the explanation for no one ever hated his own flesh. But what does he do. Instead nourishes cherishes. And then we make sure we understand that this is tied into Christ and the church just as Christ does the church.

Walter Chantry said how soon marriage counseling sessions would end if husbands and wives were competing in thoughtful self-denial. If the woman were anxious to yield her God-given head to the God-given head in her home and the man were ambitious to serve her comfort her and love her as being his own flesh.

There'd be no room for contention or strife. What does Jesus do to the church. It says he nourishes. It's with affection. He cherishes warmth tender concern. And so I could ask you husbands I asked myself this week.

Do I love my wife. Do I cherish my wife. Do I nourish my wife. Walter Trubisch said this is what I love you means from a husband to a wife. Let me try to tell you what it really means. I love you. It means you you you you alone.

You shall reign in my heart. You are the one for whom I've longed. Without you I'm incomplete. I will give everything for you. I will give up everything for you myself as well as all that I possess. I will love you alone.

I will work for you alone. I want to remain always at your side. Does that sound like a husband. Or does that sound like Jesus. And again the answer is yes. Jesus nourishes and cherishes. Every husband here must nourish and cherish.

Verse 31. Do you notice. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother. You still have a relationship. But the new priority is obvious. And hold fast or cling to or be glued to his wife. And the two shall become one flesh.

Right from Genesis 24 chapter 2. Verse 24. United together. Bone of my bones. Flesh of my flesh. Adam says verse 32. The mystery is profound. This particular mystery is profound and I'm saying that refers to Christ in the church.

What's a mystery in the Bible. A mystery in the Bible is not something that has twilight zone music. Spooky mysterious. A mystery is something that was true but we didn't know about it until God said let me tell you about it.

So Jesus in eternity past of course said to the father you've given me this bride this sullied bride this this this unchaste bride. And you want me to go live for them and die for them and cleanse them and wash them and sanctify them and glorify them.

And then on that great day I will hand you back this groom this bride rather that you gave me. And she will give you back. She will be pure and beautiful and holy because of what I've done. And this will be my gift back to you.

That all happened way back then. But we didn't know about it until Paul writes it was true but we didn't know about it. That's why he calls it a mystery. This mystery is profound and I'm saying that refers to Christ in the church marriage just isn't an illustration.

It's an illustration of something that's an eternal reality. One writer said the truth though so great a mystery was that the eternal son of God should form such a union with people that he should take them into a connection with himself.

And when I look at this I say to myself my marriage preaches sermons. I preach sermons with my mouth here on Sundays and I preach sermons the way I act toward my wife. And so I asked the husbands today you love your wives you cherish them.

And then he says in verse 33 kind of a summary however let each one of you love his wife as himself. And then of course there's a response for the ladies as well who are married and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

He's addressing individual husbands. No husband is exempt. It's a present imperative love love love love. And there's a response for the ladies and that response is respect. Do you respect your husband.

You see that there the husband is to love. That's mimicking what Jesus does for the bride love. And here we have a similar parallel and she respects her husband. I've heard from ladies and maybe some of you have said it I don't respect my husband because he hasn't earned it.

You would be in sin because the bible says respect your husband. And of course this does not mean that he shouldn't try to earn it. I would like to earn my wife's respect. I'd like to live a life commensurate with my calling.

But is the text not clear respect your husband. I'm going to treat him this way because God requires me to do that very thing. And instead of the opposite of respect with all kinds of cutting remarks and demeaning looks and accusations and looks that kill and withholding affection condescending speech.

My dad would never do that. The text says respect your husband and let his wife let the wife see to it that she respects her husband. What's my point. My point is simple. If you have the right view of marriage you have the right view of Jesus and his bride.

And if you have a right view of Jesus and his bride you have the right view of marriage. So last week we we went through that section in Ephesians 5 and I asked a few questions. I'm going to quickly review those questions.

And I have a few more questions based on this truth. And again my purpose for today is simple as people begin to change the definition of marriage over and over and over you'll be fortified by saying you know what you can say whatever you want.

But God's definition of marriage is simple and I have to think about Jesus and his church. I asked three questions last week. The first question was where are the no men and no women. That is when it comes to defending the bride of Christ marriage.

Where are people that'll just say. I'm not going to accept anything less than biblical. Question two from last week was have you bought the lie. That's very popular in our circles. Just be known for what you're for.

Well if we're for biblical marriage we're against unbiblical marriage. When you're for positive things you're against negative things. Question three. We looked at can you be a lover and a fighter. Can you be both.

We need to contend for the faith. But we need to speak the truth in love. Obviously. And now here's my fourth question. Question four which is new information for us today. Do you honor marriage. We've been thinking about.

You know what. Let's have the right definition. Now let's think about. Do we honor this proper definition if you take your Bibles and turns to Hebrews chapter 13. I don't know if you know much about Hebrews so let me give you about a 15 minute background.

Chapter 8 verse 1. The point in what I'm saying is this. We have such a high priest. That's the book of Hebrews. Right. This great high priest Jesus is a king. Yes he's a prophet. Yes. But he's a high priest.

And he also becomes the sacrifice. He's not just the priest priest that makes a sacrifice he is the sacrifice. And he's writing to these Jewish believers who need to be encouraged. And he has a few commands throughout.

But at the end chapter 13 he just has a litany of all these commands including chapter 13 verse 4. And the question for us today is if we have a biblical view of marriage do we honor this kind of biblical marriage.

He says in verse 4. Let marriage be held in honor among all. That's where I'm getting this exhortation from. And let the marriage bed be undefiled for fornicators and adulterers. God will judge. Let marriage be held in honor among all including here at Bethlehem Bible Church with myself included how would we go about honoring marriage.

Let me give you a few ways that we could honor biblical marriage. The first way is to value marriage as a divine gift as it's defined by God. It's a divine gift. It's not some kind of just social thing or just good for society.

It's a divine gift. Do you notice a text in Hebrews 13. For that marriage be held in honor among all. You know what word honor means precious. It means valuable. Is marriage precious to you. And you say well I'm single or I'd like to be married or I'm no longer married or I'm a widow or a widower.

But still you see what God has done. It's so precious. It's so full of honor because it's talking about something. It's not just human marriage. Highly prized. Do you highly prize marriage. Like well does the Bible say anything else about this honor word this precious word this value word.

Let me read you three verses and see if you can spot this word as I read it as you hear knowing that you were ransomed from the feudal ways inherited from your forefathers. Not with perishable things such as silver or gold but with precious blood of Christ like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times. For your sake it's not just the blood of Christ it's the precious blood of Christ. That's the word here for honor that you hold marriage as something precious and honorable and something to be valued highly prized.

It's not just good. It's precious. I mean it's one thing when God says angels you mediate such and such of a rule. It's another thing when God says by the way you know through apostolic messengers here's a truth.

And it's another thing for God in Eden before the fall not using an intermediator like an angel or a person. But God himself in the garden ordains marriage. No man no angel no creature takes Eve and brings her to Adam.

It was God himself. That's one of the reasons why it should be so full of honor in our hearts. Not only that. How do you honor marriage. You honor marriage by seeing how much Jesus on earth honored marriage.

That's a good thing to do. Study Jesus when it comes to weddings and marriage. What did he say about them. Well you could probably go back to when he was even born. He was born of a woman. Right. She was betrothed to her husband.

How about Jesus his first miracle. What was the first miracle that Jesus did. Remember that kid that was teasing him when he was 12 years old. And he made a mute. Remember that miracle. That's what some people say.

His first miracle was in some kind of book of peyote. Part 2 chapter 1. No. His first miracle was at Cana. Right of Galilee. At a wedding. How would you like to have Jesus show up at your wedding. How would you like to officiate a ceremony where Jesus is in the congregation.

By the way if that was ever true theoretically speaking I would make sure I talk about Jesus a lot. I would make sure it was not moralism. He would be the star of the ceremony. Jesus shows up at a wedding to affirm to confirm.

To say yes. I endorse this. Why. Because he he created it. And you can't think about Jesus at a wedding without thinking about Jesus and the ultimate wedding. And why he came. Did Jesus honor weddings in any other way.

Even his teaching he has all kinds of parables. Does he not about the kingdom of God is compared to a marriage in Matthew 22. He talks about wedding garments in chapter 22 as well. The Pharisees come up and talk to him about divorce.

And he's teaching the right thing about marriage. Jesus designed marriage. How could we honor marriage. Well there's another way honoring marriage means that sexual activity must be restricted to marriage.

Put positively. Sexual activity must be enjoyed fully within the bounds of marriage. You see it is right in your passage. And let the marriage bed are literally let the bed be undefiled. In other words how do I honor marriage.

Even here in Hebrews 13 there's a there's a holiness. There's a there's a blamelessness. There's a purity. There's sexual integrity. When sex is in marriage outside of marriage the opposite is true. And no matter what if people say well we're in love our two consented adults.

That's not what the Bible is teaching here. Let the marriage bed. Somebody says let's go to bed. You could either take a nap or you could go to bed. If you know what I mean. That's what he means here.

This is the word for the act of what goes on with husband and wife. And he says very clearly there should be sexual not defilement. But there should be a definition of the marriage bed that would be including undefiled matter of fact Jesus it said in Hebrews 7 that he was a high priest holy innocent unstained.

That's the idea separated from sinners. God says the marriage bed is holy. So we honor marriage that way. And that means everything outside of marriage unholy. Horace writes years ago full of sin. Our age has defiled first the marriage bed then our children and our homes.

Springing from such a source a stream of disaster has overflowed both people and nation. Your marriage bed must be kept pure within marriage. Enjoy yourself outside of marriage. Defiling religion James says is pure and undefiled.

That's the same thing. Well how could we honor marriage. Let me give you another reason running from sexual sin. Do you notice your text. For God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. How do we honor marriage.

Well there's lots of ways. And here is one related to the last one. God is the word God is emphatic in the original language honoring marriage means running from sexual sin. Of course the world's gonna say we don't care judges if you want.

If God were true he would he would have a lightning bolt. Strike me down right now. But sometimes God's judgment is slow. But it is certain. Of course within a relationship of man and wife marriage God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Don't go running outside of marriage for sexual fulfillment. Don't look at pornography. Obviously that would be included in these kind of things. Would it not. There's a certainty of judgment for Christians.

Of course there's a certainty of chastisement. This is not minor. This is not light. This is not a minor matter at all. Future judgment he talks about. Of course think about it. If if God is love and therefore love gives and for God so love the world he gives.

And everything about agape love is give everything outside the marriage bed for sexual satisfaction is all take. It's all selfish. It's Ephesians 5 earlier in the chapter where it's just this this this self-consumption God will judge it says there's no such thing as recreational sex unless it's in a marriage bed.

And if you notice as you walk through this it probably hits home with some people here who had such a lifestyle of sexual sin before they were a Christian before they were married. Then when it comes to the marriage bed then they are reticent.

They thumb somehow think it's still dirty are wrong or something that's improper. Of course that's not what the Bible says here at all. Sexual sin. That is sin outside of marriage or pornography within marriage.

And of course the flip side of pornography oftentimes is a wife who withholds pleasure that is do her husband or vice versa. We want to make sure we run far from that because that's not the picture of Jesus loving the church.

J .C. Ryle. It's the sin that leaves he's talking about sexual sin that leaves deeper scars upon the soul than any other sin that a man can commit. It's a sin that destroys thousands of young men in every age and has overthrown a few of the Saints of God in the past Samson David for instance.

And so whether it's a man with pornography or a woman flirting on Facebook and reading Fifty Shades of Grey all this needs to be repented of. Well let's flip it around. If we're to honor marriage in a certain way is there a ways we dishonor marriage.

Let's go through a few. You dishonor marriage and I couple these already mentioned but I'll just make sure I list them out again because they're important and by the way sadly they're rampant. How do we dishonor marriage.

Watching pornography dishonors marriage. Denying conjugal rights in a marriage dishonors marriage. I .e. celibacy in marriage. How do we dishonor marriage by exalting celibacy over marriage. Oh you know what.

I'm never going to get married because I'm gonna be more spiritual than everybody else. All the heathens that have to marry people. I I can withstand the brunt of this. And I have the gift of singleness and celibacy.

It's a special gift from God. And therefore I'm better than you are more spiritual than you. That would dishonor marriage. How would we dishonor marriage. Answer. Unbiblical divorce. Does that dishonor marriage.

Does divorce dishonor marriage. The answer is it doesn't make it highly prized as I make it valuable. It doesn't make it like the precious blood of Jesus. I read a leadership magazine article years ago and it showed a pastor in front of his congregation in Knight's armor and he had the helmet on as well and he lifted up the helmet like the hatch over his mouth and he said my subject today is divorce.

And why did he have that stuff on him. Because he knew the arrows were going to be coming. It's like a pastor can't talk about gay marriage or divorce without feeling intimidation. We dishonor marriage when we just think you know what.

I'm not in love anymore. They don't do these things for me anymore. I don't care for them anymore. And therefore you know what. No fault divorce. We just get divorced. That's a dishonor for marriage. Well let's move from honor dishonor to another question.

How should you dear Christian treat people who dishonor marriage. How should you look at people in the world. Unbelievers. And they're like I don't care Jesus in the church and marriage and husband and wife.

And it can be three people. It can be eight people by the way that's coming as many as we want. Two of the same kind a transgendered an LGBTQ. Two men two women 15 people. Whatever it might be. People that divorce a lot.

People that have all kinds of issues with it. Whatever it might be. How do we. How do we act toward them. What's the Christian response to people who are sinful. So let's just step back for a second. How does Jesus treat sinful people.

Would probably be the answer to the question. And what did he do. What did they blame Jesus for. Well let's find out. Go to Matthew chapter 9 just momentarily. And I want you to see the heart of Jesus for sinners.

And this should be ours our enemies we have. But our enemies aren't other sinners. Matthew chapter 9. What's our attitude toward sinners. What's an attitude that people should have here as Christians when we meet people who say I dishonor marriage by my attitude my actions are my words.

How does Jesus treat sinners. Of course there's no one like Jesus. What a friend we have in the Lord Jesus. It says in Matthew 9 10. And as Jesus reclined at table in the house. Behold are you ready. Pay attention.

Many tax collectors. They were the worst. And sinners. People that said you know what. I don't care. What the Mosaic Law says. I'm just gonna do the opposite. They came and were reclining not far away from him.

Not social distancing. Sorry. Couldn't help myself with Jesus as disciples. But that was important because it's all close that they're in tight. It's a real fellowship. And you don't sit up at a chair at the table like you do at our house.

This is reclining. It's close. What fellowship. If you look in the window and you saw Jesus and you didn't like him what would you be doing. You'd be telling everybody birds of a feather. Right. I tell my kids you know that was a good choice for the friendship that you had with that person.

I can tell a lot about you daughter or son by the friends you make true. Except in this case. Well I can tell a lot about Jesus too because he loves sinners. He loves sinners. And by the way before you think you know.

Well does that mean Jesus just you know accepted their sin. Absolutely not. He came to bear sin to die for sin to judge sin. But when you have a big reception at your house full of sinners and you invite Jesus he's going to come.

And it's interesting this reception here. There were many tax collectors many sinners. Mark says many a bunch of times these people that collect taxes they were Jews who went back against their own country because of the Romans and sinners these lawless people.

What do you do for work. I'm a pastor. You ask these people what do you do for work. I sin. And there Jesus is in the midst of it. And it is the complainers who are the Pharisees. And when the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples too afraid to say something to Jesus.

I would imagine why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners. I mean he's willing to associate with him. He's willing to be with them. Come on. You're gonna get to contaminated. And so are we if we walk in there we Pharisees are the separated ones.

Literally what is Jesus thinking. Running around with all these sinner sinful people. But when he heard it he said those who are well have no need of a physician. But those who are sick go and learn what this means.