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

Welcome to Through the Bible.

In this special season we celebrate Jesus' arrival on earth as a baby, as our Savior.

Our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, is our guide through the book of Malachi.

Before we dive into today's lesson, though, about marriage and divorce,

here's an introduction that Dr. McGee made for this study.

I want to share with you today a couple of letters that are, I think, very appropriate for

concluding this section on marriage and divorce.

We are in this section in Malachi, where he deals with this question of divorce in a more lengthy way than it's found anywhere else

in the Old Testament. And it's necessary to bring together at this point all the scriptures

that we have on this particular subject, and we have attempted to do that. Now, I want to share these two letters,

and I'd like to read them at this time, that is excerpts from them. And the first letter I'd

like to share with you, this party says, thanks to you and the Lord, I have stopped being a slothful

wife. I was one of those soap opera addicts,

and my house showed it. My husband would come home and try to look happy while he looked for a place

to sit down. Well, since I started listening to you, I no longer watch those stupid programs, and my husband

likes to come home because he knows his dinner will be ready, the house will be clean.

Through your teaching, I have come to realize that Jesus Christ is a permanent resident in our home, and it's my responsibility to keep it clean and happy.

Praise the Lord, I found out at 22 instead of 82.

My husband says, thank you.

Between you and the Lord, he has a new wife.

Well, I want to say that I appreciate deeply a letter like that.

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