HEART EXAM
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LAST WEEK HELL, THIS WEEK DIVORCE....DON’T LOOK AHEAD,
DON’T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW, FOR TODAY HAS ENOUGH TROUBLE OF IT’S OWN. ESPECIALLY FOR 49ers MT. 6:34
Mark 10:1–2 (ESV)
1 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. 2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
c. Testing Him: The Pharisees tried to get Jesus to speak against Moses or against popular thought; they hoped to catch Him in a trap.
Herod----roman tetrarch -John the baptist
James 1:2–3 (ESV)
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
WE DON’T LIKE TESTS, BUT WE KNOW THEY’RE GOOD FOR US....AND SO DOES GOD!!
IF JESUS WAS TESTED YOU CAN BE SURE
John 15:18 (ESV)
18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Tests show you where you’re at (humbling, ENCOURAGING) WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF!!!
EXAMPLES SEIZE THE MOMENTS, SEE THEM AS OPPORTUNITIES, YOUR FATHER IS WATCHING...
TIRED------GENTLE RESPONSE
LADY WEARING THE SUPER INAPPROPRIATE OUTFIT AND U HAVE SUNGLASSES.....NO ONE WOULD KNOW HOW YOUR EYES LINGER, YOUR FATHER DOES. MAKE HIM PROUD.
COWORKER----HARD QUESTION----FIND THE SCRIPTURE CAUSE YOU JJUST STUDIED IT IN LIFE GROUP
TESTS ALL AROUND US
JESUS WAS TESTED. HE PASSED.
BE LIKE JESUS.
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SO WHAT IS HIS TEST....WHAT DO THEY ASK
Mark 10:2(ESV)
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” MATTHEW’S ACCOUNT Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason? (Matthew 19:3)
TOUGH SUBJECT THEN AND NOW: CONTROVERSIAL
ISRAEL HELD MARRIAGE IN VERY HIGH ESTEEM......TORN BETWEEN 2 IDEAS ON DIVORCE AND MARRIAGE
i. The debate centers around the Mosaic law that gave permission for divorce in Deuteronomy 24:1
Deuteronomy 24:1 (ESV)
1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
2 lines of thinking 2 prominent rabbis based off their interpretations
The debate among the rabbis tried to answer the question “What constitutes uncleanness?”
conservative: only sexual immoralty valid reason
more liberal: anything goes
iii. William Barclay described the teaching of Rabbi Hillel on divorce and the term uncleanness in Deuteronomy 24:1, “They said that it could mean if the wife spoiled a dish of food, burned breakfast, if she spun in the streets, if she talked to a strange man, if she spoke disrespectfully of her husband’s relations in his hearing, if she was a brawling woman (who was defined as a woman whose voice could be heard in the next house). Rabbi Akiba even went the length of saying that it meant if a man found a woman who was fairer in his eyes than his wife was.”
WARPED IDEA------ The rabbis of that day had a saying, “If a man has a bad wife, it is a religious duty to divorce her.” Jesus went against this way of thinking.
3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
JESUS POINTS THEM NOT THE OPINIONS OF THESE RABBIS BUT TO GOD’S WORD....AND OBVIOUSLY JESUS KNEW THE WORD!!
EPH 6 ARMOR OF GOD TO STAND FIRM........word is our SWORD
17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
HOW SHARP IS YOUR SWORD?
SOMETIMES WE DON’ T HAVE ANSWERS OR WON’T EVEN GET INTO THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE THE ONLY THING WE’RE CONFIDENT OF IS THAT WE DON’T KNOW GOD’S WORD ENOUGH
JESUS WAS READY FOR THEIR QUESTIONS
1 Peter 3:15 (ESV)
15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
What did Moses command you? Jesus emphasized the heart of the matter in Deuteronomy 24:1. God did not command divorce; through Moses he permitted it.
GOD GAVE PERMISSION BUT IT WAS NOT HIS INTENDED PLAN
BOYS AND 1 MORE MINUTE
OUT OF NECESSSITY BECAUSE OF, WHAT JESUS SAYS, THEIR HARD HEARTS......GOD’S GAVE A SPECIFIC PERMISSION GOD’S GRACE, LOVE AND MERCY IN THIS PERMISSION The law of Deuteronomy 24:1 was really given as a protection to the divorced wife. “Moses permitted divorce providing a certificate of divorce was given to the wife… Its primary function was to provide a degree of protection for the woman who had been repudiated by her husband.” (Lane)
JESUS KNOWS THEIR HEARTS ARE THE ISSUE!!!
9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10 “I the Lord search the heart
and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
GOD IS AFTER YOUR HEART MORE THAN YOUR HABITS
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JESUS TELLS THEM THE ORIGINAL PLAN, GOD’S DESIGN FOR MARRIAGE
Mark 10:6–9(ESV)
6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
JESUS DOESN’T CHANGE FOR CULTURE.
JESUS IS OUR CULTURE.
STATE DOESN’T MARRY YOU....LEGALLY IDENTIFIES, BUT MARRIAGE IS ORDAINED BY GOD.
“BY THE POWER”......GOD THAT JOINS TWO AND BECOME ONE
Irreconciable differencs....okay cool....your not married. NOT ACCORDING TO GOD
SUPER GLUE!! YOKED TOGETHER....2 OXEN
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
JESUS DOES CLARIFY EXTREME CASES....NOT SO EXTREME NOWADAYS
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.
GOD GRACE....WHERE YOU ARE NOW
EXAMINE OUR HEARTS....MARRIED OR UNMARRIED
PRODIGAL SON....DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE OUT OF SITE FROM GOD
BE IN A PEW EVERY[ SUNDAY BUT YOUR HEART FROM GOD
MY DAD....STONE....NEVER PHYSICALLY, BUT HARD HEART
ARE YOU STRONG ENOUGH TO LET GOD PERFORM SURGERY ON YOUR HEART?