Amen and amen.

Who was that young man in that video?

Good. Dr. Paul looks the exact same. I have aged like a banana.

So blame you. You people did this to me, okay?

So, hey, if you got your Bible song of Solomon chapter 7, we got a lot to cover.

This week we are going to talk about maturing in love. We have followed

our couple. They met, they courted, they got married, they went on the honeymoon, that was fun.

Last week we talked about how they fight, and the reason is because your marriage is worth

fighting for, and the reason you fight for your spouse and not with your spouse is because

we were, we were enemies of God

and he fought for us and now what we're going to get in chapter seven is is the moment from they get

home from the honeymoon they have their first conflict they solved that and then how they mature

in love until death do they part you see because we live live in a world that is very different than what the Bible lays out.

You see, we live in a world where it's very easy to fall in love.

In fact, I don't even like the word, the term fall in love.

Sounds like an accident.

I didn't mean to.

I fell in it, it got on me.

And the problem of that is if you fall in it, then you can fall again and fall out of it. And it doesn't take much to fall in love these days.

All you need is a finger in an iPhone. There are 1,500 organizations right now that will take

your money to help you fall in love. Did you know that? It's crazy. But what the Bible talks about is something very, very different. It's not only do we love

our spouse in the beginning with a whole bunch of energy and effort, but also we are supposed

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