Faith Walk / William Carroll
We will be talking about the word of God and how he moved in my life as I stood on his word. His signs and wonders that I have seen during the last forty years praying for my needs and the needs of others. I hope to encourage a new generation of believers to pray the word of God and to believe that He will move on their behalf. God answers prayers!
Faith Walk / William Carroll
Ep 73 Marriage’s Divine Design
What does Scripture really teach about God's design for human relationships? In this thought-provoking episode, we dive deep into Matthew 19, where Jesus makes a profound declaration about gender and marriage that speaks directly to our modern cultural debates.
Starting with Jesus' words that God "made them male and female," we explore the divine blueprint for human relationships established at creation. The clear distinction between experiencing certain feelings and choosing to act upon them stands at the heart of this message. Through personal examples and scriptural insights, we illustrate how choices, not feelings, determine sin—whether dealing with temptations toward adultery, fornication, or same-sex relationships.
While maintaining Biblical truth, this episode balances clarity with compassion. God's unconditional love remains available to everyone, regardless of their current choices or relationships. Yet this love doesn't equate to endorsement of behaviors outside His design. For those struggling with identity or relationship questions, we offer hope through repentance and God's restorative power, concluding with a simple prayer for those seeking to realign their lives with God's original intention.
Whether you agree completely, partially, or are still questioning, this episode invites honest reflection on how we reconcile divine design with human desire in a culture increasingly distant from biblical foundations. Join us for this challenging but necessary conversation, and discover how God's love extends to all while still calling us to His higher purpose.
Good morning, welcome to Faith Walk Podcast. This will be episode 73. On the last episode we talked about Matthew, chapter 19, and how Moses had issued a bill of divorce. So we talked a little bit about divorce last time. Well, the Lord laid on my heart to talk this morning in the same scripture, but in a different way. Let's look at it in a different way. Okay. So in Matthew, chapter 19, verse 3, it says the Pharisees also came to him, testing him, saying to him Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife or just for any reason? And he answered and said to them have you not read that? He who made them at the beginning, made them male and female and said For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So then they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what god has joined together, let no man separate. And they went on. I'm just going to stop right there because we're not going to, we're not going to be focusing on the divorce part. We did that in the last one Because so many people in so many churches you know that is the unforgivable sin you know they'll hire a pastor, that's.
Speaker 1:You know, committed crimes and maybe even committed murder. But they've repented and God has forgave them, and they forgive them, and rightly so. But divorce, oh no, I mean, that is a taboo subject in the church. Listen, life happens, life happens and sometimes, you know, this scripture right here says what God has joined together. The problem with marriage today is, so many times it's not what God has joined together, because we don't seek him on whom we should be married to in our relationships and we jump in a relationship that's based off of lust, off of the eyes, what we see, the heart, what we feel, and you know, our heart sometimes can be deceptive, you know, and we really need to pray about it and see who God would have us partnered to, because a lot of times we miss God. Now, will God bless that? Yes, he'll bless that, he will bless that, he will honor that and he will try every way to keep you and your spouse together, and that's what happens.
Speaker 1:But now, what I wanted to talk about for today was what's going on in the world today. We see LGBTQ, z+, whatever, and all these things come out and they said, well, god out. And they said, well, god made me this way. God made me this way and God is love, so I can love whoever I want. Well, listen to the words of Jesus very, very closely. The lords of Jesus says have you not read that? Who? Who made them at the beginning, made them male and female, and for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother. There's another, male and female, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. The two shall become one place. Then there are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.
Speaker 1:I want to talk about on the fact that that God created male and female. He created Adam and Eve. You know and listen today. You know, there's so many questions out there, so many people. There's so many churches, false churches, preaching apostasy. You know that a male can be married to a male and a female can be married to a female, be married to a male and a female can be married to a female. Well, in the, in the world, that may be true, but in God's world that is not true. It's never been true, it'll never be true. It's a choice. It's a choice, see. That's why it's a sin, because it's a choice. God didn't make you like that. You chose. You acted on those feelings.
Speaker 1:See, as a married man, I can have a thought that comes to my heart when I see somebody and I go, whoa, wow, that's a good-looking gal. And I can have a second thought that says, whoa, that's a good-looking gal. And then my third thought is Whoa, that's a good looking gal. And then my third thought is Woo, that's a good looking girl. Would I? Would I go there? And if I go there and I act on that, that's sin. So I want to tell you something. See, it's sin when you get a thought in your head and you're a man and you go Woo, that's a good looking man. Ooh, that's a good-looking man. Ooh, that's a good-looking man. Oh, wouldn't I go there. That's sin.
Speaker 1:I can act on this sin of seeing other ladies or meeting other ladies outside of my marriage. I can act on that sin. It's called adultery. I can act on that If I'm not married. It's called fornication. I can act on that If I'm not married. It's called fornication. I can act on that. Or I can revert back and know that God created male and female and he joined them together. And, as I'm joined to my wife, then there is no place for another in my life, for another in my life, and I need to realize that if I act on any kind of sexual behavior that is outside of God boundaries, it's a sin, plain and simple. It's a sin.
Speaker 1:Why did God create a male and female? To replenish the earth. To replenish the earth with what? To provide the earth to procreate, to have babies, to have children. Two male cannot have a children.
Speaker 1:I don't care who you are. If you think they can, then you're a liar. And who is the father of the lie? The devil. That's what the Bible says. The Bible says the devil's a liar and the father of all lies and he can convince you to believe something that is not true. I mean, there's pastors preaching this stuff and they're false.
Speaker 1:And if you're listening to him, listen, god loves you. God loves you and you're seeing, if you're in a sinful relationship a woman with a woman or a man with a man and you're in that relationship, God still loves you. But he wants you to repent. He wants you to come out of that relationship. Take it as a word today, this is a prophecy to you Come out of that relationship now Repent, walk away and ask God to restore you, you, to restore you to faith in him. See, you may think that god just loves you and he's gonna bless everything you do. Well, god does not work like that. God loves you. God loves you.
Speaker 1:We'll say well, william, you've just never had any family members. Yes, I have. I have had family members that tended that way, one way or the other right, and I loved them. And when they came to me and they told me well, william, there's something that I need to tell you about myself that you don't know I said baby, I know, I know, I've known a long time and I love you and God loves you.
Speaker 1:But there's a way out. There's a way to change your mind. You can't let your mind, your mind has to be transformed, like Romans, chapter 12, it says, be transformed in the renewing of your mind. Not conformed to the world, conformed is poured in the same mold of your mind. Not conformed to the world Conformed is poured in the same mold of the world. See, what happens is when we're off in sin.
Speaker 1:If I'm running around on my wife, I run around with people who run around on their wives. Because, why? Because they say, oh, it's all right. You know, god's not going to dox you for that. He's not going to be mad for you. That's your heart, that's how he made you. You know, if I steal, am I going to say well, that's how God made me. You see, what I'm saying is God didn't make a man and a man. He made a man and a woman for a reason to have children, to raise them up in the knowledge of him. So all I'm going to say to you today is, if that's you and I'm speaking to you don't get mad at the messenger. Don't get mad at the messenger.
Speaker 1:Just repent of your sins. Let God tug at your heart, let him call you back into the fold. Repent of your sin, walk away from that relationship and begin to walk with God, and he will lead you, he will guide you, he will bless you in the way you need to go. Just pray a simple prayer Lord, here I am. Forgive me. Forgive me of my sins. I've been in a sinful relationship. Help me to walk away from it, help me to follow you, help me to run back to you, father, that I might be righteous through your son Jesus Christ. Amen. You pray that prayer. God will honor that prayer Until next time. God bless you.
