The Institution That God Loves

 

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

 

Nu 25:6 And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

 7 Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;

 8 and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.

 

This telling event in the history of Israel gets another mention in the Bible in Ps 106. This Psalm highlights some of the sins committed in the history of God’s people, and this was one of the notables!

 

Ps 106:28 They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices made to the dead. 29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them. 30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.

I referred to this incident as a “telling” event because God is trying to tell us something  here. He’s trying to tell us that “marriage is the institution that He loves.” And the marriage bed is to be “undefiled.”

 

Mal 2:11 Judah has dealt treacherously, And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, For Judah has profaned The LORD'S holy institution which He loves: He has married the daughter of a foreign god.

 

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

 

Now, no one is going to run any such sinners through with a spear, but may the Word of God in this matter pierce our hearts and lead us to  right view of marriage. It is God’s institution not man’s and He loves it!

 

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