Can O Worms – Power Point – #5 – God, Divorce and Re

Transcript Can O Worms – Power Point – #5 – God, Divorce and Re

AIFS Stats 2010

• • • 46% of all marriages end in divorce in Oz Australia in the top 3 globally (worst) • All ages affected by divorce – esp. 25-40 Pentecostal Christians = 13.7% (3 rd of those “currently divorced” lowest) • Top 3 reasons: 1. Communication Problems - 27.3% 2. Incompatability “drifted apart” - 21.0% 3. Spouse had affair - 20.1%

Biblical Marriage:

• Between one man and one woman.

Co-Habiting without marriage is sin- fornication or adultery. Ex. 22:16-17; John 4:17-18; Deut. 22:18-29; 1 Cor. 5:9-11; 6:9-10.

• Note- The 1 Cor. Verses which seem to say sexual union = “1 flesh” are actually speaking about the corrupting of our union with Christ- it is not specifically addressing human marriage. Intercourse alone does not = Biblical Marriage • • • • Marriage = Covenant. Mal. 2:14-16. 3 Components: Words or Promises- including: -- Willingness- Gen 24:5-8 to be married – Vows- God- Ez. 16:8; 59-63 see also Num. 30:1-16 (6-8 esp) – Witnesses- Family affair in OT- God Himself- Mal. 2:14 (Also observance of local customs and laws implied- Ruth 4; Rom 13) Sacrifice- sexual? – Sacrificial living one for another- excluding all others, for life!

Seal or tokens – in our culture- rings.

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God, Marriage & Divorce

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Matthew

19:3 Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?” 19:4 He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female, 19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and

mother and will be united with his wife, and the two

will become one flesh’? 19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” NET (See Genesis 2)

God, Marriage & Divorce

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Malachi 2:

14 Yet you ask, “Why?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law. 2:15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth. 2:16 “I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the Lord who rules over all. “Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.” NET