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Well, I know it's the Christmas season and I'm supposed to stop and do a little Christmas series

But I just think 2020's had enough change amen. I think we do something

Consistent and normal we're in the book of Romans. We're just gonna continue. We're in Romans chapter

Seven and he's gonna use this analogy of Mary. So how many of you are married?

I'm gonna be married. Okay. This is a good time to hold hands and

If you're single, there's hot cocoa in the back afterward. Good luck. Okay

Now let me show you my wife Grace and I literally today's sermon is are you married to the law or married to Grace?

I already made my pick you can make yours. So this is when Grace and I got married. I'm on the I'm on the right

I'm on the right. I know it's hard. We look alike people say as you get married

And or together you start to look alike. I just want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from that not being true

And I always like to say that men and women aged differently women age like why not we say men age like milk and this is

This is how it's going for us. So we were married. We were 21 years of age and when we got married

We didn't really understand marriage

How many of you you're married and you could testify to that right and marriage is hard. You know why?

You're both in it. That's why it's hard, okay?

And what he's going to do he's going to use an analogy of marriage and he's going to compare contrast the Christian life

So let me tell you a little bit about marriage and then we're going to get into relationship with Jesus

Marriage is supposed to be

Covenantal the two of you in a very exclusive very unique very loving relationship

Unlike any other all of our other relationships are contractual

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