Third day, Read Matthew 19:1-9
Q6
a. What did the Lord teach about divorce
and remarriage in Matthew 19:1-9?
Jesus said, God has joined together, let no
one separate except for sexual immorality. Otherwise, the husband remarry to
another woman will commit adultery.
b. Read Mark 10:2-12; Luke 16:18. How do these passages add to your
understanding?
The command is not only
given to men also for women as well.
c.
Read 1
Corinthians 7:10-16. What principles do you find about marital separation?
* To 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.
** If we Christian whose
spouse is
not a believer and willing to live with us, we must not divorce them.
*** For the unbelieving
husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been
sanctified through her believing husband.
**** But if the unbeliever
leaves, let it be so.
Q7,
a. Read Malachi 2:13-16. What
is God’s attitude toward divorce?
God’s merciful attitude was to command the
husbands not to divorce their wives of their youth and marry the other young
wives for stopping the tears and grieve from those abandoned wives.
b. Why did God lead the
prophet to make such a strong statement?
“The man who hates and divorces his wife,” “does
violence to the one he should protect,” Because
only if our bodies and sprits all belong to God, then we can have the Godly
offspring that is what God seeks.
c. Read Ephesians 5:21-33. How
does this passage help you understand God’s attitude toward divorce?
For we are members of Jesus’
body, man must love his wife as he loves himself just as Christ does the church,
and gave himself up for her to make her holy, and to present her to himself as
a radiant church. And the wife must respect her husband for the husband is the
head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. So
marriage likes Christ and the church. Mutually
submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
d. How does this teaching from
Ephesians deepen your love for Jesus Christ?
Ephesians deepen your love for Jesus Christ because Jesus loves us and gave himself up for us to
make us holy, cleansing us by the washing with water through the word, and to
present us to Himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any
other blemish, but holy and blameless.
e. (Challenge) What scriptural
promises could you use to advise or encourage a person who divorced and remarried and is troubled by
these passages?
Since the relationship of
marriage likes Christ and the church, so we have been told not to get divorce
but mutually submit to one another. However, in real world, sometime
to reach the goal mutually could be difficult. Because the husbands’ actual
behaviors are not always perfect like Jesus, even the wives are just like the
church, however, the churches are not always being good,
e.g., those bad Pharisees who hated Jesus.
God knew the people would not
obey the law. God created a new covenant and built the new church. And He
cursed the one doing Lord’s work deceitfully in Jeremiah 48:10. Also He
declared in Jeremiah 23:1-4, when the church turned evil, “Woe
to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!”
"You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have
not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your
deeds,"
Also in Ezekiel 34:2, “Woe to
you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! “
1- God did create a new
covenant and build the new church. God will allow us to have the second chance as well. But we must-
2- Repent and accept the
cleansing from the blood of Jesus. For Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6:8-11
8 Instead, you yourselves
cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. 9 Or
do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor
men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor
the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom
of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you
were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and by the Spirit of our God.
3- Move on with the new life
because the situation of divorced or remarried was assigned to us from God. For Bible says in 1 Corinthians 7:17
Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer
in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called
them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.
