We're in Psalm 128 this weekend and we are in a three-week-long message that will wrap up next week,

so you've got to come back, especially if you're a parent or you ever want to be.

We're going to talk next week about some of the nuts and bolts of parenting,

but today we come to the subject of marriage. And the title of my message is the secret to a fruitful

marriage. The secret to a fruitful marriage and what we're doing in this message series is we're

basing our time and attention on Psalm 128. It's one of the Psalms that we know for a fact, like we know

Jesus has read all of the Psalms, but we know this is almost positively one he had committed to memory

because it was one of the Psalms that the Jews would sing coming and going from Jerusalem when

they would travel there three times a year for the feasts that Jesus we know and his disciples

would go to. It was just a part of the cultural life of living in Israel. And so this is a song that

was in the mouth of Jesus. We've committed to memorize it as a family. I'm trying my absolute

hardest to see how I could do today. I'm not all the way there yet. We're most of the way there.

I think you could follow along, see how I'm doing. Blessed is everyone. You probably think I'm

watching on IMAG or a teleprompter. I know the comments I'll get on the YouTube, right? No ear

pieces in, no witchcraft, no Wikipedia, all right? Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord who walks

in his ways. When you eat the labor of your hands, you shall be happy and it shall be well with you.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the heart of your house, your children like all of plants

all around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you

out of Zion. May you see the goodness of Jerusalem all your days. Yes, may you see your children's

children peace be upon Israel. These are words that were in the mouth of Jesus. Words written by

the mouth of Jesus and when we focus our attention on them, we get a glimpse of the bright vitality

that God intends to be, our experience, all of us in this gift of marriage. And it's almost

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