Dale Partridge - Ultimate Marriage #15： How to Have a Marriage That's Holy and Not Just Happy.

00:00:00.000 hey guys welcome to ultimate marriage today we're gonna be talking about how to have a marriage

00:00:14.940 that is holy and not just happy so Gary Thomas wrote a book called sacred marriage and he had

00:00:20.220 this concept of what does it mean to have a holy marriage not just a happy marriage I think this

00:00:26.980 the subtitle of his book is, is, um, marriage is here to make you holy, not to just to make

00:00:33.540 you happy. Anyways, he coined that concept and I thought it was important to talk about

00:00:37.480 today. What does that actually mean? And so we're going to talk about that. We're also

00:00:41.120 going to answer two questions. Um, you know, later in the show, today's a very short show.

00:00:46.600 Um, because we got a busy week. I have an exam for my hermeneutics class at my graduate

00:00:53.140 program for, uh, Bible college, seminary stuff. And, uh, and then we're also having a live

00:00:59.740 90 minute teaching for our one year ultimate marriage program. Uh, we're teaching about

00:01:05.920 sex for 90 minutes, uh, this Thursday. And, uh, if you're interested in learning more about that

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00:01:16.520 notify um veronica's here hi yeah um i'm just i'm still fighting this stomach thing and uh we're

00:01:26.640 we're working hard to do that so um yeah i'm trying to de-stress try to pull back a bit and

00:01:32.960 if you're watching this on video we're dressed warm veronica's wearing a jean sherpa lined

00:01:41.980 Levi's denim jacket there you go and I'm wearing a Costco vest don't judge me um so uh I want to

00:01:51.760 talk to you guys about um this idea I've been reading the Old Testament um and we've been just

00:02:01.080 I've been going through all this stuff for my hermeneutics class Jeremiah reading about

00:02:05.920 through Deuteronomy, he's doing some stuff in the Torah. And I'm finding that there's just this

00:02:11.220 resounding theme that's going through the Old Testament. And he's constantly telling the

00:02:17.760 children of Israel to eat differently, to dress differently, to work differently, to worship

00:02:24.600 differently. He has all these rules that kind of separate the Israelites from all the other 0.95

00:02:34.980 peoples in the area and what he's really doing in a biblical sense is he's calling us to be

00:02:40.900 different different yeah to be holy yeah to be holy to be separate that word holy means

00:02:46.600 to be separate uh deuteronomy 7 6 says for you are a people holy to the lord your god the lord

00:02:54.300 your god has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession out of all the peoples who

00:02:59.720 on the face of the earth. And that theme just kind of, again, goes through just making the

00:03:05.860 Israelites do all these things that are different. And they are. They're a peculiar people. They're 0.72

00:03:12.940 separate. And I think God puts these practices in place even today. And I want to talk about

00:03:22.080 that for your marriage, about what does it look like, this Old Testament principle, and what is

00:03:26.780 the command of the new testament to actually be holy and separate um so first peter 2 9 why don't

00:03:33.700 you read that babe yeah first peter 2 9 but you are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy

00:03:39.660 nation his own special people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called who called you out

00:03:46.760 of the darkness into his marvelous light yeah so i just want you guys to take to hear this you know

00:03:53.760 It says, we're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.

00:03:58.980 Now, this letter is for sure, you know, Peter was the apostle to the Israelites, to the Jews.

00:04:05.120 But again, this is applicable because I think this is talking about the church.

00:04:08.020 This is talking about all those who believe in Jesus Christ, his own special people,

00:04:12.620 that you may proclaim the praise of him who called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light.

00:04:17.540 Okay, guys, the theme of the Old Testament is holiness, separateness.

00:04:21.920 The theme of the New Testament, surprise, is holiness and separateness, being different, being in the world, but not of the world.

00:04:30.860 And that actually means going into the world, but not being of the world, staying in the world.

00:04:37.240 And so I want you guys to evaluate, is that true of your life?

00:04:42.420 Are you guys actually holy and separate in your marriage?

00:04:46.120 Are you a peculiar people?

00:04:47.700 Yeah.

00:04:48.100 Do you stand out?

00:04:48.960 Do you look different against the culture?

00:04:53.060 Yeah.

00:04:53.240 Do people look at you in a way that they're kind of odd or curious?

00:04:58.020 You know, I think 1 Peter, I've talked about this before, but I'll mention it again.

00:05:02.960 1 Peter 3.15 is the apologetics verse, and it says, I'm going to try to wing it off the top of my head,

00:05:08.180 but always be prepared to give a defense for the hope that is in you and do so with meekness and fear.

00:05:14.580 and that's the the word defense there means in the greek is apologia that's where we get the

00:05:19.760 word apologetics um if you look prior to that he's talking about how how to live holy um

00:05:26.660 hence the scripture we just read be holy be different and because you're so different

00:05:32.400 people will be curious and they'll ask you questions yeah well let's just in our nature

00:05:39.000 that's how god created us to notice things that are different you know you put a bunch of tennis

00:05:45.320 balls on the floor and one baseball and our baby comes in the room he's going to go after the

00:05:50.540 baseball yes because he notices that that's different and until i mean look at our life

00:05:55.480 people didn't people weren't curious about our life five six seven years ago we were the same

00:06:03.640 as everybody else in the church and the same which is kind of the same as everybody else in

00:06:07.640 the world and people actually rooting us on for things that were not growing us together but they

00:06:13.700 were looking more like the culture yeah and so we're we're called to be holy and i want to read

00:06:19.980 another scripture second corinthians 6 16 through 17 um this is just kind of to let you know that

00:06:26.440 god calls us as christians to be holy the same way he he did with the israelites i mean even the new

00:06:32.020 testament hebrews talks about be holy for be holy as he is holy um but second corinthians 6 16 through

00:06:38.800 17 says i will dwell as god has said i will dwell in them and walk among them i will be their god

00:06:46.580 and they shall be my people therefore come out from among them and be separate says the lord

00:06:52.360 and again that's a reference paul's referencing old testament but he's applying it to his new

00:06:58.180 Testament letters to these new Christians. And so are you holy? Do you guys have the same amount

00:07:05.620 of debt as everybody else in the world? Do you guys watch the same movies as everybody else in

00:07:11.320 the world, the same TV shows, listen to the same music? Do you guys put your children in the

00:07:16.980 education process that everybody else does? Do you guys discipline your children the way that

00:07:22.000 the world says? Do you guys raise up your family, monitor your time, all these different things?

00:07:27.760 Do you do things that are actually different than the way the world does them?

00:07:31.840 I think we're so concerned about fitting in sometimes that...

00:07:37.460 People-pleasing.

00:07:38.040 People-pleasing, yeah.

00:07:39.180 We're afraid to be bold and different and unpopular.

00:07:45.480 Yeah, so this is, I would say this is a call to examine yourself after this conversation today.

00:07:51.140 yeah is yeah exactly examine yourself of going are we any different to the point where

00:07:58.320 people are asking us questions that first peter 3 15 verse it's saying

00:08:03.980 um be ready for people to ask you questions and to give a defense for the hope that is in you

00:08:13.220 are people asking you questions are people curious about your life because if they're not

00:08:19.600 that's a pretty big red flag. And so we want you guys to, we want to challenge you guys in your

00:08:25.800 marriage to be different and to be separate. Anything you want to add on that? No, I think

00:08:34.240 that that's great. I think, you know, you came up to me the other day even and asked me after you

00:08:39.700 were studying this and asked me, so do we look different? Do we look different? And I sat back

00:08:45.920 and thought about that for a while. And I think, yeah, I think that we do look different in a lot

00:08:50.440 of areas and there's also other areas that I'm sure that we can improve in. But for the most

00:08:54.520 part, I think, yes, that, uh, our live, our lives in the way that we live them and the way that we

00:08:59.680 treat each other and the way that we parent looks different in comparison to the world.

00:09:05.220 Yeah. People can see us and go, that's an interesting, I want to like, tell me more.

00:09:10.800 like why do you why do you do that you know um so again it's a call to holiness and if you hear a

00:09:17.540 little ta ta ta ta ta ta ta in our microphones it's because there's a fly in here always that's

00:09:22.560 that's part of the studio yeah okay i was like oh do we have a leak no it was like it was dripping

00:09:28.980 or something yeah guys i hate i need to get like a fly zapper in this in the studio it drives me

00:09:34.040 nuts um okay we are gonna those big blue glowing lights exactly yeah yeah it kills possums

00:09:40.880 so we're gonna answer two questions um veronica's gonna go ahead and read them and add her input as

00:09:48.040 she sees fit all righty what is your advice to a couple who are searching for a church in a new

00:09:54.800 town when the wife is more spiritually mature and has a and has stronger preferences about the

00:10:00.000 worship style liturgy sermon content etc but still desires to help her husband be a spiritual leader

00:10:07.520 for the family in this process you want to say anything yeah the first scripture that comes to

00:10:16.720 my mind would be um so yeah if you're both christians and you get to follow the instruction

00:10:25.100 that is given to us in scripture yeah in ephesians 5 22 it says wives submit to your own husbands

00:10:31.360 as to the lord for the husband is the head of the wife is also christ's head of the church and he is

00:10:36.780 the savior of the body therefore just as the church is subject to christ so that wives be to

00:10:42.380 their own husbands in everything that was ephesians 5 22 through 24 um so yeah you regardless if you're

00:10:50.820 spirit more spiritual mature if you know scripture more if you're just you know more emotionally into

00:10:58.140 it regardless of all of that you your husband is to be leading that out and walking that out

00:11:05.360 yeah it regardless if yeah you're this a type person if you're both christians yeah exactly

00:11:10.700 um and uh and yeah i mean that's that's what this question sounds like so if you're a wife

00:11:17.520 Just, you know, again, I know it's difficult, but it's what it says.

00:11:20.760 It says, therefore, just as Christ is subject, or just as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands in everything, everything.

00:11:31.840 And so that process is important. 0.66

00:11:36.020 We have to remember that Christian women, I'm actually specifically talking to you, when you lead, your husband won't.

00:11:44.560 like that is just the simple fact and I see that everywhere I and again I believe the number one 0.64

00:11:51.740 cause of divorce right now is not sex money or um children I think it's passive men I think

00:12:01.500 passive passive men is the if not it definitely isn't the church because that is just exactly

00:12:08.020 what's going on is this passive men and um you know I know it's difficult to be patient in the

00:12:13.520 process it is a very difficult thing to wait we have watched and walked with several couples who

00:12:20.620 are the wives are more mature spiritually they are more um inclined to lead yeah well and and

00:12:31.640 just speaking to the patience thing i know that it's really hard um dale and i dale's always been

00:12:37.760 more spiritually mature than i have um than i've been but we walked through a season earlier on in

00:12:43.280 our marriage where we weren't going anywhere we weren't going to church anywhere for two and a

00:12:47.640 half three years um and yeah there were some moments for sure where i was like a little bit

00:12:54.020 uneasy or wanting to get plugged in somewhere but ultimately dale walked us through that journey

00:12:59.540 and i have um i'm thankful for where we are today in that journey yeah hope you know

00:13:08.020 my flesh wants to say i wish that season was a little bit shorter yeah um but you know we are

00:13:15.440 where we are today because of that yeah and and i didn't hear about it really at all from her like

00:13:20.860 in terms of she she expressed her concern when it was appropriate but it wasn't a con it wasn't

00:13:26.620 like leading from behind or anything like that yeah make maybe make a suggestion here and there

00:13:30.760 but ultimately you have the final call yeah exactly and and that's how we we want to i mean

00:13:35.400 Ladies, we have to just make sure that we're allowing the Holy Spirit to do his job.

00:13:39.640 And Christ, I feel like just Christ doesn't want to give us, allow us to think that the change that occurred in our brothers and sisters in Christ are from us.

00:13:52.020 We don't get to do the change.

00:13:53.700 It says that the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword piercing down deep.

00:13:59.280 Holy Spirit's better at his job than you are.

00:14:02.260 Yeah. 1.00

00:14:02.420 And so just allow, I just go, man, if, if, if Christian wives spend as much time praying for their husbands as they do complaining about their husbands, we might have more radical change. 0.95

00:14:14.380 And so, um, you know, again, I think I mentioned this a couple of shows ago, um, the case for Christ, you just watch this wife beautifully just pray and pray and pray and then gently present, but pray all the time for her husband. 0.84

00:14:29.520 And so, again, I want to see that from you ladies.

00:14:31.580 If you're in that situation, let the Holy Spirit, so that the credit can go to God,

00:14:35.640 to God be the glory if that changes where your husband walks in those things.

00:14:39.820 And there are some tactics and strategies we've talked about before

00:14:42.760 on how to help your husband get in that position.

00:14:45.380 The biggest thing is just get out of the way.

00:14:49.180 So what I would say is, yeah, let him choose the church.

00:14:53.580 Let him choose the church.

00:14:55.280 I would actually even tell him, hey, you know what?

00:15:00.020 I know that our journey, and you know that our journey,

00:15:03.620 and it might be that you say that I've been in the church longer,

00:15:08.260 but I want to honor God by honoring you, and I want to follow you.

00:15:16.300 So you make the decision about where we go to church.

00:15:18.400 And how would that make a man feel?

00:15:19.260 If I were to come up to you and say something like that, how would that have made you feel?

00:15:22.680 Yeah, it makes me feel so honored.

00:15:25.100 It makes me feel like just blessed.

00:15:30.060 Maybe more motivated.

00:15:31.580 Motivated, just excited about like.

00:15:34.520 Respected.

00:15:35.140 Respected. 0.81

00:15:35.800 And people, you know, some men might, don't worry ladies, some men might just go like,

00:15:41.860 no, no, I don't want to, I want you to do it.

00:15:43.940 They might deflect it.

00:15:46.080 Just again, just go, you know what?

00:15:47.540 I don't want to make the decision.

00:15:49.740 I really want to follow you.

00:15:51.760 So if you don't want to make a decision right now, that's fine.

00:15:54.760 But I just, I really do feel like the Lord's calling me to just follow you and just leave it at that.

00:16:01.640 And now, men, if you're listening to this, seek the wisdom of your wives.

00:16:07.880 God gave you your wife as a helper.

00:16:11.640 That's what she's here to do, to help you.

00:16:14.100 Not to nag you, but to help you.

00:16:17.100 And so Veronica is my number one closest counselor.

00:16:21.220 I reach out and talk to her about just about everything that we go through. 0.96

00:16:25.900 And the only reason I wouldn't say just about everything is because men can pour everything onto their wives.

00:16:33.760 She has access to anything, but I don't dump everything on her. 1.00

00:16:38.100 I distribute the things that, hey, you know what? 1.00

00:16:40.380 She doesn't need to have this business struggle thing. 0.88

00:16:43.320 I can go dump that on my friend Aaron over here, and he can help me more than Veronica could.

00:16:48.340 But if I asked a question about it, it'd be totally fine.

00:16:50.140 Totally fine, yeah.

00:16:50.940 But it's your way of protecting me.

00:16:53.720 Yes.

00:16:54.380 Yeah, exactly.

00:16:55.540 My way of protecting Veronica is that, and this is what happens all the time.

00:16:58.920 From that emotional weight that I would almost feel like I needed to carry if you dumped it all on me. 1.00

00:17:03.820 Yeah, and the thing is, that happens all the time in Christians that don't have community. 1.00

00:17:09.500 They're constantly dumping everything on the only person in their life, which is their spouse, and they just bear each other down. 1.00

00:17:18.500 So that's the answer.

00:17:19.560 um yeah let him choose let him lead um it might be patient it might take years

00:17:24.740 to get him there but be patient all right next question um i'm curious of your view on alcohol

00:17:33.360 consumption my husband and i just heard a very powerful sermon saying that any form of alcohol

00:17:38.700 consumption is sinful and wrong while we agree that drunkenness which is referenced heavily in

00:17:44.080 the Bible is wrong. But if we want to share one glass of wine on occasion after the kids go to

00:17:49.500 bed during a home date together, is that sinful behavior? Well, I'm glad this is, I put this

00:17:57.240 question in here because we talked about just be holy, be separate. It's one of those conversations

00:18:02.040 of alcohol. Yeah. And I get that question frequently, at least in email to me or written

00:18:07.780 to me on Instagram. I've had several people write that. Yeah, it is a common question. And if you

00:18:13.280 guys go to just about every kind of, I guess, reliable online source on the topic, you're

00:18:23.640 going to get the same answer that I'm going to give. The answer in short is drinking alcohol

00:18:32.400 is not a sin, but drunkenness is. That's the short answer. Now, there's lots of caveats

00:18:38.040 that I'm going to talk about just briefly here.

00:18:42.240 Scripture talks about alcohol a lot.

00:18:46.180 The Bible talks about alcohol a lot.

00:18:47.940 Mostly negatively, but sometimes actually positively.

00:18:51.920 I actually have a few verses I want to read.

00:18:53.860 Psalm 104, 14 through 15, states that God gives wine

00:18:57.380 that makes glad the heart of men.

00:19:01.000 The Proverbs talk about drinking wine from your own vineyard

00:19:04.080 and that it's a blessing.

00:19:05.160 um uh we know that that uh paul tells timothy to drink some wine for his stomach to heal his

00:19:14.400 stomach um and the answer that's the answer to your stomach problems right there which is funny

00:19:19.800 because my stomach problems are the opposite i can't drink wine because it would be bad for my

00:19:23.940 stomach right now um anyway yeah the the reason i think that you know back in the day the water

00:19:28.840 wasn't super clean sometimes people were getting sick and slightly fermented wine you know lower

00:19:38.440 alcohol than today's alcohol was actually a safer bet for some type of liquid and sometimes would

00:19:45.120 actually kill the bacteria in your stomach and so that was a common thing to drink wine then again

00:19:50.840 it was probably more like eight percent instead of like 14 or 16 percent which is a wine today

00:19:55.340 um now a lot of people say no but their wine didn't have alcohol in it and i go okay well

00:20:01.300 you got a dilemma because the scriptures um teach a bit otherwise uh jesus turns water into wine

00:20:08.520 that's kind of the the main thing and some people say no but their wine didn't have alcohol in it

00:20:13.600 and i go oh okay well let's just read what it says in john chapter two it says every man at

00:20:18.240 the beginning this is someone coming up to the to the groom okay jesus is at this wedding they

00:20:24.060 come up to the groom after Jesus has turned the vats of water into vats of wine. And someone

00:20:31.420 walks up to the groom and says, every man at the beginning sets out the good wine. And when the

00:20:36.700 guests have well drunk, then they bring out the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now.

00:20:46.900 Okay, I don't think they're talking about, he implies there's an impaired judgment that occurs.

00:20:52.700 then you bring out the crappy one after you, you know, can't tell that you're drinking crappier

00:20:57.660 wine. Um, no, it's, it's an implied that the alcohol or the, the wine is, is alcoholic here.

00:21:05.000 Um, so, uh, yeah. So I wanted to bring that up. Drinking is a sin or is not a sin. Drunkenness

00:21:12.860 is. And, um, like most things, it's a self-control issue. That's just the reality of it. And we've

00:21:19.640 seen this close to home yeah in my uh my mother's life um uh my mom as an alcoholic uh she passed

00:21:29.800 away from uh liver disease almost three years ago now dang is it really next month will be three

00:21:36.480 years i think or is it two years i can't remember um it's a it's uh but it was a hard trial that we

00:21:42.200 walked through and we watched the the uh the grips of that on people she had stopped drinking

00:21:47.800 and became clean but the damages had already been done to her body so she ended up passing

00:21:54.620 away from liver failure and i got a chance to baptize my mom which is really cool to

00:21:59.020 to be a part of that process um and uh to see her come to the lord so praise god on that

00:22:05.600 um and actually i'm going to say another thing i actually had a dream what was it maybe a year ago

00:22:10.440 i think so i had a year ago it was and again i don't like want to put too much theology onto

00:22:15.580 this, but it was just interesting that I had a dream that, that, um, middle of my dream, I was

00:22:20.000 like, I was always uneasy about my mom and, you know, was she Christian? Was she not? You know,

00:22:24.160 she, she struggled with these things and she, you know, did she believe, did she not? Cause it was

00:22:28.900 so close to her death. And, and I remember having a dream, um, in the, in the middle of my dream,

00:22:36.300 all of a sudden I just like see this vision of my mom telling me that she's safe and that she's in

00:22:41.400 heaven in my dream out of nowhere. And I remember like this feeling of like utter, like, I don't

00:22:50.440 know if it's peace, like that I had no need for faith anymore. Like I totally believed almost

00:22:55.460 like, wow, everything I believe about God is absolutely true. Like this is, it was like one

00:23:00.560 of those kind of vision dream moments. I mean, you know, the Muslims and Muslim nations right

00:23:05.160 now, they're seeing lots of people come to Christ through dreams. Anyways, it was one of those kind

00:23:08.600 of different than a regular dream moments and um but yeah she died from from alcoholism so i know

00:23:16.220 it very well um it's a self-control issue we're we're called to not allow our bodies to be

00:23:23.580 mastered by anything pornography money alcohol you know anything else um james uh 417 why don't

00:23:35.200 to read that scripture um for us here james 4 17 so whoever knows the right thing to do

00:23:40.760 and fails to do it for him it is sin yeah so this is a concept of of yeah it might be a sin for you

00:23:50.060 to drink yeah if you struggle with it yeah and we've you know there's a variety of things that

00:23:56.100 it might be a sin for you to eat dessert you know if you got an eating problem but i also want to

00:24:02.460 And if I can say something really quick is say that, for example, for your mom, before she passed away, we knew that she struggled with alcoholism.

00:24:15.320 It would be a sin probably for you and I to drink in front of her because we are causing our sister in Christ to stumble.

00:24:21.960 Yep.

00:24:23.080 And so we need to use wisdom when we're drinking.

00:24:26.020 If you are having a glass of wine or a beer or whatever it is, you need to use wisdom in that and who you're drinking around, who you're with, because you can be causing somebody else putting a stumbling block in their way.

00:24:40.360 Yeah, this concept that she's talking about here is 1 Corinthians chapters 8 through 10.

00:24:44.960 And it's the idea that love, our love for one another in the church, will limit our liberties.

00:24:51.540 And the liberty is that, yeah, you can have a glass of wine or a beer at your house.

00:24:56.020 yeah if you don't struggle with it if you don't struggle with it you don't it doesn't have any

00:25:00.260 power over you um you've not you can you're a lot you're able to walk in the spirit and you're not

00:25:06.080 getting drunk but um but if someone comes that does struggle with it then yeah your love for

00:25:12.860 that brother will limit your liberty and you're not going to drink at that time and so yeah

00:25:18.180 veronica and i we are very careful about that i mean right now with my stomach i haven't

00:25:22.760 had drinks for for several weeks and will probably not drink for several months and you know I'm not

00:25:30.260 a big drinker um and I think that as a believer um as a Christian if you're one of these people

00:25:37.000 that kind of gets off work and go man I need to I need a beer or you had a hard day I had a hard

00:25:41.600 day and I yeah I need I need a drink if you say things like that watch yourself um if you're

00:25:48.660 drinking pretty often, you know, a couple of drinks a day or a drink a day or two, you know,

00:25:53.920 again, examine yourself, examine yourself. Do you look like the world or are you holy?

00:25:57.740 Yeah, exactly. It's just that. And just being careful of things having power over you because

00:26:03.980 man, it's stuff sneaky. That's a reason that there's, you know, millions of alcoholics because

00:26:10.400 it's sneaky. It's sneaky stuff. Um, so yeah, on that note, we're going to end the show pretty

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00:26:52.840 And this is episode number 15. Just go to the podcast section. We'll have all that information for you guys there.

00:26:58.540 But we'll close out with a memory verse that I think you guys should memorize.

00:27:02.740 Yeah, memory verse this week is 1 Peter 2.9.

00:27:06.340 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,

00:27:10.340 his own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of him

00:27:13.820 who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

00:27:17.660 Yeah, so we're called to have that perspective on our lives.

00:27:24.500 If you believe wrong, you'll never live strong.

00:27:27.260 And it's important that we we we believe correctly about who we are and we're not we're not of the world.

00:27:35.860 We're separate. We're a holy nation.

00:27:37.600 So we'll be back next week with a great show with a less hectic week and pray for Dale's stomach and pray for Dale's stomach.

00:27:47.460 Yeah, because you're going on probably a month and a half.

00:27:51.060 Yeah, a month and a half. And we think it's gastritis.

00:27:53.600 It could be an ulcer.

00:27:55.540 I'm maybe going to need to get a camera stuck down my throat.

00:27:59.980 But it seems like it's weird.

00:28:02.700 It's getting better and then getting worse and getting better and then coming back.

00:28:05.960 And so we're going to just figure out what's going on.

00:28:07.620 But please pray that that would not be serious and that we'd make it through.

00:28:11.940 So until next time, we will see you next week.

00:28:16.380 Thank you for joining us on this episode of Ultimate Marriage.

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Dale Partridge - October 17, 2018

Ultimate Marriage #15： How to Have a Marriage That's Holy and Not Just Happy.

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