Is it not amazing how the word of God just simply and clearly speaks to the issues of life?

Jesus was faced with some really critical people in Matthew chapter 19 that really thought

they were going to confuse him. And yet Jesus, as he always did, took the simple word of God

and showed them, God is always right, and we are the ones

that are really confused. Find out what he meant today as it relates to marriage and divorce. Listen

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Okay, guys, welcome back. We're in Matthew chapter 19, and we're tackling a

kind of a controversial topic today. So just listen in and let's see what the Bible has to say.

Matthew 19 in verse 1, the Bible says, and it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these sayings, so we've been

talking a lot about the teaching of Jesus. Remember all the red letters we've covered here

in the last chapter. But now in verse number one of chapter 19, when he had finished these

sayings, he departed from Galilee and came into the coasts of Judea

beyond Jordan. So if you were to look at a Bible map today and look at Judea, which is the region

where Jerusalem is, the lower part of Israel, just to the west of the Dead Sea, and you were to go

toward the Dead Sea, like toward Jericho, and get to the Jordan River, which actually empties

into the Dead Sea. The other side of that is a region that was called Perea. Now, today it's part of the country of Jordan,

but it was called Perea. In fact, Amman, Jordan today is in biblical Perea. And Jesus went to this area.

This would be about maybe three months or not even that long, maybe six weeks, seven weeks before Jesus'

crucifixion. So these are the latter months of Jesus' life, and he's over in Perea. What's

interesting is that Herod Antipas, who was the ruler of Galilee, that area of Israel,

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