Matthew chapter 19.

I've got a very heartwarming, Christmas-y sort of sermon tonight.

Wednesday, Bible study on divorce, remarriage, singleness.

Sounds like fun.

All right. All right.

Interesting that Jesus is going to have to deal with this issue of divorce and remarriage.

And I like it that one of the things we left off on last week in chapter 18 was this idea of forgiveness,

you know, 70 times seven.

Jesus telling us to forgive one another.

And man, if you're married, one of the things you're going to learn to be good at,

you really need to.

If you're going to have a good marriage, learn to be forgiving.

That's one of the best tips I can give you, you know, as far as marriage goes, is to be those

who are forgiving and like to forgive and are quick to forgive and not keeping long lists of

wrongs and stuff like that that have been done against you.

You know, making sure forgiveness is part of what you do is something the whole Bible really talks about.

And it's really the way the Lord is for us. Lamentations 3, 22, and 23 says it is of the Lord's

mercies that we're not consumed because his compassion's fail not.

They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is mercies are new every morning. Don't you love that?

I think that's why morning time is good. You know, well, I really messed up yesterday. But when you get up

in the morning, you can remember this verse. The Lord's mercies, his forgiveness is new every morning,

and great is his faithfulness in that area of being merciful continually. His mercies endure forever.

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