How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent work.

Every hour in America, about 86 couples divorce. That's more than 2,000 divorces every day,

over 14,000 each week, and nearly 750,000 every year. Well, despite those staggering numbers,

our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McKee, reminds us that divorce itself is not the problem.

It's only a symptom.

I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you to through the Bible where we'll hear Dr. McGee get to the heart of the matter.

So grab your seat on the Bible bus and get ready for a message Dr. McGee called the best love.

Let's pray.

Heavenly Father, thank you for your unconditional love and the patience that you

model for us each day. Lord, as we open your word together, would you show us the building blocks of

strong and lasting relationships? We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. We're off to Malachi chapter 2 on

Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

Now, friends, we're down in this section where the Lord is rebuking the people because of their social sins.

He'll be rebuking them a little later because of their religious sins.

But here it's the social sins that has to do with the home

and with the family. And specifically, he had said in verse 11, Judah hath dealt treacherously,

and an abomination is committed in Israel and Jerusalem, for Judah hath profane the holiness of the Lord

which he loved. Well, what did they do? Well, he makes it very clear. He spells it out,

and hath married the daughter of a foreign God. That is, they married heathen women.

Well, what about their own wives? Well, the Lord says

to him in verse 13, and this have ye done again covering the altar with tears and weeping with

crying out insomuch that he regardeth not the offering anymore, now receive it with goodwill

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