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Marriage and Divorcein the
Kingdom
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Peter:
• Strangers in the world (1 Pt 1:1)
• Live your lives as strangers here (1 Pt 1 :17)
• As aliens and strangers in the world, I urge you, to abstain from sinful desires which war against your soul (2 Pt 2:11)
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HOW DIFFERENT ARE WE (WHO CALL OURSELVES
CHRIST-FOLLOWERS) FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD?
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Matthew 19:3-9
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
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“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one.
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Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
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Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
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Deuteronomy 24:1-4
If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house
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she becomes the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled.
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That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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Matthew 5:31
It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’
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JESUS CHANGES THE FOCUS
emphasises the
PERMANENCY OF MARRIAGE
Jesus says that it’s important to have a correct view of marriage before trying to
have a correct view of divorce.
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Matthew 19:3-9
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
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and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one.
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
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Malachi 2:13-16
Another thing you do: You flood the LORD’s altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, “Why?”
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It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.
Has not the LORD made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one?
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Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
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“I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel, “and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,” says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
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1 Corinthians 7:10-16
To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
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To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. …
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But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances.
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Matthew 19:7-8
“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
Malachi 2:15-16
So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,” says the Lord Almighty.
So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
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Malachi 2:15-16
So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, …. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
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WHAT IS
• Hardness of heart? … • Unguarded spirit? …• Broken faith? …
A REFUSAL TO FOLLOW GOD’S WILL AND GOD’S WAYS
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HARDNESS OF HEART
NOT GUARDING YOUR SPIRIT
RESISTANCE TO GOD AND HIS WAYS
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Jeremiah 3:8
I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.
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1. We need to always hold a high view of Scripture
2. We also need graciousness towards those who struggle ... and maybe fail
3. We need to continue to promote a high view of marriage and it’s permanency
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4. We need to encourage and enable one another to work on our marriages
5. We need to love and support those who are struggling through the divorce process
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People who have been divorced are not in any way
2nd class citizens
or Christian failures
DIVORCE IS NOT AN UNFORGIVABLE SIN
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4. We need to encourage and enable one another to work on our marriages
5. We need to love and support those who are struggling through the divorce process
6. We need to guard against hard-heartedness ourselves