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*SURVIVING MARITAL STORMS*
*The Secrets of a Satisfying Marriage - Part 12 of 12*
*Matthew 7:24-25 & I Corinthians 3:10*
*Rick Warren*
Matt.
7:24-25 /"Everyone who hears these words and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
The rains came down, the floods rose and the winds blew against the house; yet it didn't fall, because it had its foundation on the rock."/
*BE PREPARED FOR . .
.*
*1.
"Rains" -- The Culture You Live In*
/"In the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian . . . .
People will become utterly self-centered, greedy for money . . . .
proud and abusive . . . .
They will be utterly lacking in gratitude .
. . normal affections . . .
self-control, and will be violent and loving pleasure instead of loving God." / 2 Tim.
3:1-4 (LB~/Ph)
Ideas that can erode your marriage:
~* ______________________________ "self-centered"
~* ______________________________ "greedy for money"
~* ______________________________ "loving pleasure . .
."
/"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person . . .
"/ Rom.
12:2 (LB)
*2.
"Floods" -- The Crises You Will Live Through*
/"Save me, O my God.
The floods have risen.
Deeper and deeper I sink in the mire; the waters rise around me.
I have wept until I am exhausted."
/ Ps.
69:1-3 (LB)
What to do:
/"(God says) don't be afraid ., . .
when you go through deep waters and great trouble I will be with you.
When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown!"
/Isa.
43:1-3 (LB)
~* ______________________________ in God's plan
~* ______________________________ God's presence
~* ______________________________ on God's protection
*3.
"Winds" -- The Changes You Will Live With*
/"To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven."/
Eccl.
3:1 (KJV)
/"Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways."/
Pr.
20:30 (GN)
/"I have learned to be content, whatever the circumstances may be ... I am ready for anything through the strength of Christ who lives within me."/
Phil 4:11, 13 (Ph)
*Foundation for a Storm-Proofed Marriage*
/ "God has placed Jesus Christ as the one and only foundation, and no other foundation can be laid."/ 1 Cor.
3:10
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*SURVIVING MARITAL STORMS*
*The Secrets of a Satisfying Marriage - Part 12 of 12*
*Matthew 7:24-25 & I Corinthians 3:10*
*Rick Warren*
Today we're going to conclude the series we've been in for twelve weeks -- the longest series I've ever done at Saddleback -- on the "Secrets of a Satisfying Marriage".
Surveys tell us that 96% of all Americans will marry, 38% of those will divorce, 79% of those will remarry, and 44% of those will divorce again.
America has the highest divorce rate in the world.
Over one-half of all the divorces in the world occur in America.
In Orange County, the divorce rate is over fifty percent.
If GM or Ford produced a car that half of them were falling apart on the road it would be considered a national epidemic.
You would see all kinds of legislation; somebody would do something about it.
Very few people are trying to do anything about the exploding epidemic of divorce.
Divorce doesn't work.
Ten year study of divorced couples in California discovered that only 10% of ex spouses said they had both succeeded in improving their lives by divorcing.
Newsweek: "The landscape is littered with the victims of divorce epidemic.
Ex wives raising their children alone, former husbands trying to start new lives and be good fathers to kids they see only on specific days, and children themselves often torn between warring parents."
Why are so many marriages dying?
I think the answer is that they are unprepared for the inevitable storms that every marriage encounters.
For the past twelve weeks we've been looking at what God has to say about marriage.
Now it's time to put it into practice.
Matthew 7:24-25 /"Jesus said, `Everyone who hears these words and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
The rains came down, the floods rose, the winds blew against the house, yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock."/
He says the key to a strong house, home, is to have it built on the right foundation.
The foundation is to do what God says regarding your marriage.
Notice: there are three external forces that can damage a home ‑- rains, they erode the roof; floods, they wash away the foundation; and winds, they shake the structure.
I want us to look at three kinds of storms that will undermine your marriage unless you prepare for them.
Rains are the culture you live in.
Floods are the crises you live through.
Winds are the changes you live with.
Culture, crises, changes.
These three things will shake your marriage unless you're prepared for them.
*1.
YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR THE CULTURE YOU LIVE IN*
Does our society work for or against the family?
Against it.
The pressures on your marriage are much more severe than they were on the marriage of your parents.
It's very difficult today to stay married.
George Gallup of the Gallup pole has written a book called Forecast 2000.
One of the chapters in his book, after surveying all of America, is called /The Faltering Family/.
He says there are four forces in today's culture that are eroding marriages and families.
1) Alternative life styles.
He says there is mass confusion about roles and goals.
How many happy, normal families do you see on TV?
2) Radical feminism.
This is just as selfish as chauvinism.
The attitude of "I've got to be me even if it means leaving my husband and going off and doing my own thing."
3) Materialism.
The pressure to have more.
Families are so busy trying to make a living that they are never at home together.
4) The sexual revolution.
People magazine did a survey and said, "The Number one cause of divorce is unfaithfulness."
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