Pastor Ford has this question for us today—what makes us want to get out of so quickly what we wanted to get into so desperately?  As we continue to discuss issues that may arise in a marriage, we’ll explore why so many people today easily seek a divorce, after desparately wanting to be married to their spouse in the beginning.

Pastor Ford will remind us today that Jesus died for our salvation and to give us the ability to be able to have a better marriage.  He did all that for all of us and for the sins of the world.  Pastor Ford will also ask us—since Jesus died for us, then why is it that in our marriages, we can’t seem live for Him?

Believers can have confidence that the tragedy of death has been overcome.  And in His resurrection, Christ is the “first fruits” of those who will be raised from the dead.  Pastor Ford explains that although death can seem tragic, for the believer, it’s really just transportation from this life to the next.

If you married in search of happiness, then you didn’t really understand what marriage is all about.  The goal of marriage is oneness.  The Bible says, “Therefore, a man will leave his father and mother, cleave to his wife and the two of them will become one flesh.”  Oneness is the goal of marriage.  Happiness is a by-product.  Join us today as we look further at the what happens when a marriage has a case of the “toos”.

When a marriage has a case of the “Toos,” one thing that happens is there are too many unmet expectations.  And often married people will focus on the “what ifs” of life instead of on the “what is.”  And when the “what ifs” takes precedent over the “what is,” then it often leads to disappointment and disillusionment.  We’ll begin to look at how to deal with expectations  in your marriage on today’s Treasured Truth.

When we are well in our spirit, we are holy. When we are well in our soul, we are happy. And when we are well in our body, we are healthy.  Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and God wants us to keep our bodies holy, happy and healthy, as we strive to honor Him in every part of our lives.

For those of us who struggle with overeating, we’re not able to deal with it as the sin of gluttony, because we don’t look at it that way.  We call it a problem, but we’re very hesitant to call it sin.  And in our society today we really don’t call anything sin anymore, because it makes things like that more palatable to us, changing them from what God calls them.  Pastor Ford will help us re-evaluate our view of overeating and suggest some practical ways to overcome it.

Some people don’t eat to live, but they rather live to eat.  So today, Pastor Ford will talk about “death by fork”—or overeating.  And, there’s a Bible word for what we’ll be hearing about today—it’s called gluttony.  Pastor Ford says that we should tell the truth and shame the Devil, facing the truth that in the Bible the sin of overeating is called gluttony.

As we continue to look at how we are victorious through Christ, Pastor Ford will remind us that we all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God.  That fact made us unqualified to come before a Holy God.  But then Jesus gave us His name.  And when He gave us His name, we became qualified.  Because no longer do we have our own names, but now we can do everything in His name.

The reason why all we do is win, win, win is because out of the seven and a half billion people in the world today, God chose each of us as believers to be part of His family.  He chose us!  So, after considering that amazing truth, one might then ask, how could we not win?