No Fault Divorce Has Been Around A Long Time

  

I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

 

Heb 13:4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

 6 So we may boldly say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

We’ve been talking about marriage, (the institution that God loves Mal 2:11) and I think it’s time we in the church fessed up to the fact that we have allowed the world to define what marriage is rather than the Word of God!

 

 

Most of us have grown up in the world of “no fault” “easy” divorce, and it gets easier every day with the advent of the internet. Maybe easier on paper, but not in reality. Divorce is hard on all parties involved, just ask any spouse or child that has been affected by it!

 

There’s a reason it’s so hard….God hates it! Mal 2:16 "For the LORD God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one's garment with violence. What had been one seamless garment put stitched together by God is ripped apart by divorce.

 

No fault divorce is nothing new, it was around when Jesus walked the planet and the subject was brought up in Mt 19:3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"

 4 And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'

 5 "and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

 6 "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

 

LET NOT MAN SEPARATE! Let those words ring in our ears BEFORE we tie the knot.

 

Father, forgive us for letting this matter slide, often for fear of man, we sidestep the issue, lest we offend, but from the beginning it was not so. Help us to lead the next generation to a right view of the institution that you love and forgive and heal those have been victimized. By divorce in the past.  Let us draw a line in the sand and be like that woman caught in the act of adultery. You did not condemn her, but you told her to go and sin no more.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word