Setting Goals In Marriage
Edwin Young
Galatians 5:22
"By the authority vested in me, by the laws of the State of Texas and looking to heaven for divine sanction, I now pronounce you, husband and wife, in the presence of God and these assembled witnesses." Sober words, they're spoken in this church every year to about a hundred and fifty, to hundred and seventy- five couples who are married. And every time I say those words, a lump gets in my throat. I can truthfully say that I am more nervous at a marriage ceremony, with a handful of people present, than I am before several acres of people. There's something about it. The seriousness of it. The sacredness of it. The beauty of it. The wonder of it. The miracle of it. Now think about it, just for a moment. The fact that these two young people are coming together and getting married and out of that union, in probability, other lives will come into being, that would never have come into being with exact genetic composition, personality and environment, unless these particular two had come together and been married. Now that's right. And to say to these two, that are getting married, listen, that you will be together for the rest of your 1ife: until death do you part. In sickness, one member permanently disabled, living as a vegetable for forty, fifty years, or in health, in poverty, the husband takes a chance with the savings they have and loses his job and every penny and they are destitute. The wife is a part of that, too. In poverty, as in wealth. The wife goes off and publicly shames the family. The husband is a part of that shame.
Now let me tell you something, when a man and a woman come before the marriage altar and say, "I do", until death alone shall part us. It is no wonder that mothers cry and daddies and granddaddies bite their lip. That's serious, sacred, awesome stuff. "I now pronounce you husband and wife, in the presence of God and these assembled witnesses. ...
Edwin Young
Galatians 5:22
"By the authority vested in me, by the laws of the State of Texas and looking to heaven for divine sanction, I now pronounce you, husband and wife, in the presence of God and these assembled witnesses." Sober words, they're spoken in this church every year to about a hundred and fifty, to hundred and seventy- five couples who are married. And every time I say those words, a lump gets in my throat. I can truthfully say that I am more nervous at a marriage ceremony, with a handful of people present, than I am before several acres of people. There's something about it. The seriousness of it. The sacredness of it. The beauty of it. The wonder of it. The miracle of it. Now think about it, just for a moment. The fact that these two young people are coming together and getting married and out of that union, in probability, other lives will come into being, that would never have come into being with exact genetic composition, personality and environment, unless these particular two had come together and been married. Now that's right. And to say to these two, that are getting married, listen, that you will be together for the rest of your 1ife: until death do you part. In sickness, one member permanently disabled, living as a vegetable for forty, fifty years, or in health, in poverty, the husband takes a chance with the savings they have and loses his job and every penny and they are destitute. The wife is a part of that, too. In poverty, as in wealth. The wife goes off and publicly shames the family. The husband is a part of that shame.
Now let me tell you something, when a man and a woman come before the marriage altar and say, "I do", until death alone shall part us. It is no wonder that mothers cry and daddies and granddaddies bite their lip. That's serious, sacred, awesome stuff. "I now pronounce you husband and wife, in the presence of God and these assembled witnesses. ...
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