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Verse 32, can a maid forget her ornaments, maid referring to a virgin, or a bride her attire, yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Now that's an important verse because when the Bible talks about the attire of a bride, this is something that God talks a lot about in the Bible. He uses this symbol a lot about the bride and about the wedding gown and so forth. Now of course in the New Testament, the Bible talks about Jesus Christ coming back on a white horse and it talks about how the armies which are in heaven followed him, clothed in white linen. And then the Bible talks about the fact that, you know, the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife had made herself ready and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. So when we think of a wedding that we go to today, the woman who's getting married, she wears a white wedding dress, right? And what does that white wedding dress symbolize? Well here's the thing, it comes from the Bible. That is a Christian tradition of having the wife wear a white wedding dress because if you went to other countries, she would be wearing other colors than white. That is a Christian tradition and the reason why the bride wears white is because of the fact that in Revelation 19, it talks about at the marriage supper of the lamb, his wife is arrayed in white fine linen, clean and white. And it says what that symbolizes, the righteousness of saints. Now many people have misunderstood this because the righteousness of saints is not referring to all of the good deeds that we do, all the good stuff we do. See look what the Bible says here, can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire, yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Now think about this, what does the attire represent? If the bride forgets the attire, who are they forgetting? They're forgetting the Lord. He is the attire. Does everybody understand? Because the Bible says here, you know, a bride is not going to forget to put on the wedding dress. I mean can you imagine if it's the wedding day and everybody's excited and you know, the bride gets there and she's just about to walk down the aisle and it's like, oh whoops I forgot something. You know, I'm wearing street clothes. I forgot to put on the wedding dress and everything, that never happens. There are all kinds of things that go wrong at weddings. That's not one of them because of the fact that brides pay a lot of attention to their wedding dress. It's a big deal to them. Spend a lot of time making sure that that dress is the right dress and that they look their best. And so the Bible's saying there's no way that a bride's going to forget her wedding dress but yet my people have forgotten me. Now look at this. Flip over in Jeremiah to chapter 23 verse 6 and look at this important phrase. In Jeremiah 23 verse 6, in his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called. Watch this. The Lord our righteousness. The Lord our righteousness. Now go to chapter 33 verse 16. Chapter 33 verse 16. We're cross-referencing scripture with scripture right here in the book of Jeremiah itself. Chapter 33 verse 16, in those days shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith ye shall be called, the Lord our righteousness. Now the apostle Paul said, and be found in him not having my own righteousness, not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. The righteousness which is of God by faith. Not having my own righteousness. Why? Because there's none righteous, no not one. Why? Because our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. I mean to sit there and say, oh the fine linen is the righteousness of saints, that's going to be an ugly wedding dress because if you think it's your righteousness because your righteousness is filthy rags. When the Bible says that the fine linen is the righteousness of saints, it's the Lord our righteousness. We've washed our robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. It's not that we worked hard and earned it. That's why I take a stand on this. Any wedding that I perform, the bride wears a white dress because there are some people who have other traditions where they say things such as, well if she's had a child out of wedlock or if she's not a virgin or if she's been defiled in the past, then she has lost the right to wear the white wedding dress. This is where some people would stand, but I would say to that, you're missing the whole point of the symbolism. It's not about her righteousness. It's about the righteousness of Jesus. That wedding is a picture where the husband represents Christ and she represents one who is redeemed by Christ and who's clothed in fine linen and white by the grace of God, not according to her works or her clean life. When women say to me, well I'm going to wear some other color because of my past, I'm not going to participate in a ceremony that doesn't do justice to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I only perform Christian type ceremonies that follow the traditions that we've gotten from the word of God. Again, I'm not saying that I'm the only one who has a right to an opinion, but I have the prerogative to perform whatever weddings I want. If someone wants to do something else, then they can go somewhere else and there are plenty of other pastors and preachers and just to the peace to perform their ceremony. When I perform a wedding ceremony, it's important to me that the bride wears a white dress because of the fact that I love the grace of God. I feel it's such a wonderful picture of the gospel of Jesus Christ.