Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

So what I'm talking about here is verse 33 where Jesus says,

if you enter not into my law, you cannot receive the promise of my father,

which he made unto Abraham.

And I think what he's talking about there is marriage.

If you're not married, then you cannot receive the promise of my father,

which he made unto Abraham.

And you can see how that would be, because how can you have seed

if you're not married, you know, or if you have seed,

but you're not married, then you're not worthy of the Abraham covenant.

But that's tough.

And this is another place where we have to be relying on God and the atonement

to make everything right, because some people don't have the opportunity to marry.

For some people, it's not going to happen.

For a wide variety of reasons, for a lot of people, this would not happen.

And it makes me, frankly, it makes me not even want to talk about marriage,

because I can think about how painful it can be for a lot of people listening.

But if we don't talk about marriage, then we lose sight of it as a guiding ideal

that's really important.

And even in the secular world, you find information about how important it is.

There are studies that children do a lot better when their parents are married.

It's better for the rising generation.

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