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Monday Jul 16, 2018
Jesus On Divorce-The Delicate Dilemma
Monday Jul 16, 2018
Monday Jul 16, 2018
Jesus on Divorce – the delicate dilemma
Matthew 5:31-32
July 15, 2018
31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
The purpose: or why divorce?
- It brought c________l to a situation that was out of control.
- It was a protection for w__________ of the time.
The word that is translated here “divorce” is the Greek word apoluo”,
“luo” = to loose;
“apo” = away from.
It is the same word that is used for being set free from bonds.... the idea of a p________ ...
Moses laid down three basic principles:
- First of all, divorce was to be l_________ to certain causes.
- Martyn Lloyd Jones states, “It was only to be permitted henceforth when there was some natural, moral or physical defect in the wife.”
- Principle number two was that a man who had so divorced his wife, had to give her a w____________ of divorcement.
- The third control was that a man who divorced his wife is not allowed to m_______ her again.
- The idea is to show that marriage is not something that is open to walk into and out of at leave! Divorce was a p________ enactment.
What the Pharisees taught:
- Their basic idea was that the Law of Moses c__________ that a man divorce his wife under certain conditions. (Matthew 19...)
- They actually taught that if a man ceased to l_____ his wife, or for any reason found her to be unsatisfactory to him, that, in a sense, was ‘uncleanness’!.... and as such, grounds for divorce...
Genesis 2:24: the Biblical idea for marriage:
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh!
Cleave= to glue, or connect, to literally “grow into”…. (Think, grafting a tree)
why did God allow Moses to make the idea of divorce available??
- “Because of the h________ of men’s h_____.”!!
- The permission for divorce in the O.T. economy was designed to meet the unique, practical problems of an i____________ s_________ people!
There was utter chaos -- these rules brought at least a semblance of order... but in no way was he advocating divorce
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