How firm a foundation,

Ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

If you've known the disappointment of a failed marriage,

you're in the right place.

I'm your host Steve Schwetz, and today on Through the Bible, I hope that you'll find comfort and conviction. The Old Testament prophet Malachi spends a good part of his book talking about

the commitments of marriage, and so does our Bible teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, as he

unpacks the truths from Malachi

Chapter 2 today. But first, here's an introduction to our study.

We have been, for the past few days, talking about the subject of marriage and divorce, as Malachi presents it. Of all the books that we have seen today

by this new crop of theologians and Christian psychologists on marriage, the passage in Malachi is ordinarily left out. And we have spent a great deal of time

dealing with it to show the importance of it. Now, marriage is definitely a love relationship.

It's not any other kind of a relationship. Now, it is true to get married

that it becomes a legal arrangement, a contract. You go and buy a marriage license from the

government, whether it be local or county or state or United

States government.

It's a government contract, sense that you have agreed to live together, and that contract that

contract that's made by the government is not based on love at all.

Just an agreement of two people that agree that they're going to live together and fulfill certain

obligations. But marriage is more than that. At the very beginning, there was no marriage

license for Adam and Eve to get. The marriage was made in heaven, and it was a love relationship.

And every marriage is a love relationship. Or actually, it's no marriage at all.

And that's the point that we've been emphasizing. And that's the reason that I have insisted that

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