A Provocative Statement about Marriage

Speaking of the difficulty the disciples had in hearing Jesus' words concerning marriage in Matthew 19, John Piper said Sunday,

"…how much more will the magnificence of marriage in the mind of God seem unintelligible in a world that we live in where the main idol is self, and its main doctrine is autonomy, and its central act of worship is being entertained, and its two main shrines are the television and the cinema, and its most sacred genuflection is the uninhibited act of sexual intercourse. Such a culture will find the glory of marriage in the mind of Jesus virtually unintelligible." [I have not yet finished this sermon, but it is an outstanding encouragement to faithfulness in marriage because of the creation of marriage by the hand of God for the glory of God.]