Dale Partridge - June 24, 2023


Are You Forgetting This Important Aspect of Marriage？ - Dale Partridge


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7 minutes

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143.3016

Word count

1,044

Sentence count

53

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Misogyny

7

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In this episode, Beth Moore talks about the importance of symbolism in the Christian life and why it is so important for us to maintain the integrity of what marriage is. She also discusses the role of women in the church and the need for them to be ordained.

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00:00:00.160 Humans are forgetful.
00:00:02.240 We need constant reminders.
00:00:04.720 If you think through the Old Testament,
00:00:06.560 God was always calling them to memorialize
00:00:09.440 certain experiences that they had with God,
00:00:13.200 to build an altar or, you know,
00:00:15.160 to remember a certain particular action or moment in time.
00:00:20.360 And so we would, you know,
00:00:22.800 this is what Passover was essentially, right?
00:00:24.800 We are constantly looking for opportunities
00:00:28.760 to remember the things of God, the promises of God,
00:00:33.060 the acts of God in our lives.
00:00:35.120 And so humans are forgetful
00:00:37.360 and the power of symbolism is helpful
00:00:41.060 to the weak minds of men.
00:00:43.740 And again, we need memorialization in the Christian life
00:00:48.600 to help us remember what promises God has given to us.
00:00:53.000 We need those visual symbols
00:00:55.300 to retain those spiritual truths.
00:00:57.920 This is why God gave us things like the Lord's Supper
00:01:00.240 and baptism, head coverings, marriage.
00:01:05.320 These are physical actions that remind the church
00:01:10.120 and teach the world something that's true about God
00:01:14.160 and his plan for his people.
00:01:16.740 They're not just arbitrary practices
00:01:19.600 that have no intention or meaning.
00:01:22.220 No, they're very important practices that teach or remind,
00:01:26.160 teach the world or remind the church of vital truths
00:01:29.820 regarding the gospel or regarding order within the church
00:01:33.800 and the family or God's design for humanity
00:01:36.740 or for righteousness sake, whatever it may be.
00:01:39.160 And when you pervert, distort or destroy the symbols,
00:01:43.420 they lose their power to inform.
00:01:46.480 And that's why it's so important that we maintain
00:01:49.780 the integrity of what marriage is.
00:01:52.280 It's also why I argue in my book, A Cover for Glory,
00:01:56.220 the argument of head coverings,
00:01:58.060 because head coverings are essentially the visual symbol
00:02:00.740 representing the spiritual truth
00:02:03.060 of the doctrine of headship, right?
00:02:05.520 You have head symbols for a doctrine on headship.
00:02:09.080 And when you lose the symbols,
00:02:11.540 you start to lose the doctrine of headship. 1.00
00:02:14.600 And this is why the feministic era 1.00
00:02:17.160 that we have been raised in and been saturated with 1.00
00:02:20.420 has lost its understanding of the reason for head coverings.
00:02:24.760 And we've become an egalitarian society at large.
00:02:28.740 And especially we have been influenced in the church by that.
00:02:32.860 And when you remove the symbols of station and authority,
00:02:38.140 the visual symbols like a head covering,
00:02:40.540 you also begin to forget the qualifications for leadership.
00:02:44.500 And so we're starting to see greater ordination of women
00:02:48.360 because, hey, if we're essentially the same
00:02:51.040 and there's no visual symbol there
00:02:53.300 to remind us of our differences
00:02:54.720 that are according to the word of God
00:02:56.200 and our station and authorities and roles
00:02:59.040 and being, how we're different, 1.00
00:03:02.020 then why can't women be pastors 1.00
00:03:03.960 and why can't women preach? 0.99
00:03:05.380 And we're essentially the same, right? 1.00
00:03:07.740 And so again, when we remove the symbols,
00:03:10.800 we forget the truths that we are supposed to remember
00:03:16.140 or be reminded by those practices.
00:03:19.900 And so, essentially, this is why we must fight at every level
00:03:24.840 to protect the definition of marriage, gender, family, sexuality.
00:03:30.560 They each are contributing pictures or prompts
00:03:33.980 that uphold God's plan for fruitfulness and faithfulness and righteousness.
00:03:40.840 Secondly, marriage is not just the most intense form of human relationship.
00:03:49.200 I think a lot of people think that marriage is just like another form of relationship
00:03:54.900 on the relationship continuum, right?
00:03:56.900 Like if you have like over here, you have, you know, coworkers like are on the far right.
00:04:05.200 Like, hey, we're friends, you know, we're acquaintances, you know, and then you have
00:04:08.920 like, you know, maybe family relationships or best friends and, and then, you know, a mother of
00:04:13.240 mother and son and, you know, whatever it may be. Then you have over here, you like the strongest
00:04:17.900 human relationship is marriage. People think that it's like on the continuum, it's the strongest
00:04:22.580 form of human relationship. Honestly, that's not true. I would say that marriage isn't even
00:04:30.640 a relationship at all. It, it intersects with relationship and romance and passion and all
00:04:37.600 the things that come with marriage. But marriage, like as a noun, is a covenant. It's a covenant
00:04:44.000 between two people built on love and faithfulness that catechizes the culture toward Christ. And so
00:04:51.540 it's, we got to think about, I mean, you don't become one in a relationship with anyone. So
00:05:00.500 like, just think about that for a second. If it is a relationship, there's no other relationships
00:05:06.160 that you become one, like marriage.
00:05:09.660 You know, I become one with my wife.
00:05:11.760 You don't become one with your best friend.
00:05:13.740 You don't become one with your father or mother
00:05:15.780 or your brother or sister.
00:05:17.840 And again, so it has characteristics of relationship,
00:05:21.200 but marriage in and of itself
00:05:23.400 isn't even in the relationship category.
00:05:25.300 It's something completely different.
00:05:27.200 It is a covenant where two become one.
00:05:30.960 And so just that's kind of an offshoot understanding
00:05:33.940 of giving you some basics of what that means.
00:05:37.360 In his book, The Momentary Marriage,
00:05:41.060 Piper, John Piper writes,
00:05:43.140 quote, the ultimate thing we can say about marriage
00:05:45.960 is that it exists for God's glory.
00:05:48.340 That is, it exists to display God.
00:05:51.420 Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love.
00:05:55.100 It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives.
00:05:59.040 It's about portraying something true about Jesus Christ
00:06:01.880 and the way he relates to his people.
00:06:04.060 It's about showing in real life
00:06:05.840 the glory of the gospel, end quote.
00:06:08.740 So yes, marriage intersects with relationship
00:06:13.140 and sex and companionship and family,
00:06:16.780 but its central purpose is to show the world
00:06:18.880 how a man's love will prevent him from leaving his wife
00:06:24.660 and how Christ's love will prevent him
00:06:30.120 from leaving his church.
00:06:31.380 So it's this covenant relationship and it's demonstrating that for your children to show the commitment, the oneness that is occurring inside of marriage for the procreation of children, for the furthering of the gospel, for the fruitfulness that's commanded in the dominion mandate in Genesis chapter three.
00:06:51.180 And so it's also showing how a woman will submit to her husband in all things as the church submits to Christ in all things.
00:07:00.340 marriage essentially is God's memoir to the world. And we should, as a result, protect it at all costs
00:07:10.040 because we live in a time where it's absolutely being distorted at every possible level.