Don’t Trade Your Marriage
Throughout July, One Gospel Minute is returning to its roots. Before podcasts and social media, One Gospel Minute shared biblical truth over the radio through the voice of Tennessee Bible College founder Malcolm Hill.
In this Throwback Thursday archive episode, Malcolm Hill uses the familiar idea of trading to illustrate an important truth about God’s design for marriage. While people may trade possessions throughout life, marriage is different. Pointing to Jesus’ words in Matthew 19, Malcolm reminds listeners that God created marriage to be a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman. God’s design has not changed, and His pattern remains the standard for every generation.
Read about this subject
- Scripture: Matthew 19:4–6
- “God’s Plan for Marriage”
- “What Did, and What Does, “Marriage” Mean?”
- “Marriage is for a Lifetime”
Transcript
Malcolm Hill: Men like to trade, don’t they? Maybe I’m talking to a good trader right now, or a number of good traders. You say, “Yeah, I like to trade. I like to trade on this, that, and the other.” Men like to trade cars. They like to trade trucks. They like to trade knives. Up where I came from, they traded knives on Saturday.
They used to do that. They don’t do it as they used to, as much at least. But they like to trade knives, like to trade houses, like to trade farms. Men like to trade. But you know, trading’s all right, but I’ll tell you one thing. We’re living in a time when men wanna trade their wives. Yeah, that’s right. You say, “Is that right?”
Yeah, just look around you and you’ll find that to be true. They wanna trade wives. God says you can’t do that. In Matthew 19:4-6, he said that God made them in the beginning male and female. And so we got one man for one woman and one woman for one man, and that’s the way God wants it. That’s the way he made it.
Don’t trade your wife off, your husband off. You may lose your soul. I’m Malcolm Hill. This has been One Gospel Minute from the churches of Christ in your area where you are always welcome.
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