Adrian Rogers: IF YOU WANT YOUR MARRIAGE TO LAST, REMEMBER WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES, “A THREE-FOLD CORD IS NOT EASILY BROKEN.” ONE STRAND CAN BE BROKEN, TWO STRANDS CAN BE BROKEN, BUT THREE STRANDS TOGETHER GIVE STRENGTH. WHAT IS A THREE-FOLD CORD? IT IS A MAN, A WOMAN, AND JESUS CHRIST.
QUESTION: THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE MARRIED AND HAVE GOOD MARRIAGES, THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE MARRIAGES THAT ARE ON THE ROCKS, THOSE OF YOU WHO’VE HAD A BROKEN HOME, ARE YOU WILLING TO COME TO JESUS TODAY, AND SAY, “LORD GOD, I WANT REVIVAL IN MY HOME. Announcer: PROFOUND TRUTH. SIMPLY STATED. THIS IS LOVE WORTH FINDING WITH PASTOR, TEACHER, AND AUTHOR ADRIAN ROGERS.
Adrian: TAKE YOUR BIBLES AND TURN TO MATTHEW 19. AND WHILE YOU’RE TURNING TO THAT, LET ME TELL YOU THAT WE’RE SEEKING AND ASKING GOD FOR A REVIVAL. AND, OF COURSE, WE WANT REVIVAL IN OUR NATION, AND WE WANT REVIVAL IN THIS, OUR CHURCH, BUT, FRIEND, UNLESS WE HAVE REVIVAL IN THE FAMILY, WE’RE NOT GOING TO HAVE REVIVAL IN THE CHURCH NOR THE NATION.
SO WE’RE TALKING TODAY ABOUT FAMILY REVIVAL. AND I WANT US TO READ FROM MATTHEW 19. LET’S BEGIN IN VERSE THREE, “AND THE PHARISEES ALSO CAME UNTO HIM,” THAT IS, TO JESUS, “TEMPTING HIM,” THAT MEANS THEY WERE TESTING HIM, “AND SAYING UNTO HIM, ‘IS IT LAWFUL FOR A MAN TO PUT AWAY HIS WIFE FOR EVERY CAUSE?’ AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, ‘HAVE YE NOT READ THAT HE WHICH MADE THEM AT THE BEGINNING MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE;’ AND SAID, ‘FOR THIS CAUSE SHALL A MAN LEAVE FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE,
