'Til Death Do Us Part

Introduction

Series: Marriage, Divorce, Singleness, and Dating

Week 1: Origin of marriage

Week 2: Order of marriage

Week 3: Marriage is until death

Text: Matt 19:1-12.

Made to be joined.

Matthew 19:4–6 NASB95

4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from 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 they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Genesis 2:21–24 NASB95

21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” 24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Vows and Consummation

Moses permits divorce.

Matthew 19:7 NASB95

7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

Deuteronomy 24:1–5 NASB95

1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that 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 from his house, 2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, 3 and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, 4 then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance. 5 “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

v. 1 - indecency - nakedness

Matthew 19:8 NASB95

8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

Man’s hard heart.

Matthew 19:8–10 NASB95

8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. 9 “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.” 10 The disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”

Matt 1:18-19.

Deut 22:13-29.

Fornication vs Adultery

Matthew 19:9 “9 “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.””

Matthew 15:19 “19 “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.”

Adultery - moichaō (me-how) - commit adultery

Fornication - porneia (poor-knee-ah) - sexual immorality; fornication

Matthew 5:31–32 NASB95

31 “It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’; 32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:27–28 NASB95

27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Conclusion

Hosea 3