KBM Standing Against Divorce

Today, we are picking up where we left off in the series on being a “Defender of the Faith.” In this episode we will be looking specifically at “Standing Against Divorce.” Now, before I dive into this, I want to make it clear. God certainly does not consider divorce to be a sin. He hates it without a doubt (Malachi 2:16) but God himself did divorced Israel (Isaiah 50:1). So, divorce is not a sin but that doesn’t mean God allows anyone divorced, just because it isn’t sin, to remarry whoever they want. The only divorced person that can remarry is the one that divorced their spouse for fornication as Jesus declared in Matthew 19:9; Mark 10:11-12; Luke 16:18; Matthew 5:31-32. Because God hates divorce the punishment for it, if fornication is not involved, is a life of being single. Now with that out of the way, let’s get to what I want to talk about today, specifically.

Unfortunately, because divorce has become so “common place” in our world and because many Christian parents today “are divorced”; they don’t talk with their kids about how divorce should “not even entering the minds” of their children when they get married. Outside of fornication or threat of life, parents should be making it abundantly clear that divorce should never enter the equation. This is God’s desire and what must be taught.

Matthew 19:4–6 NKJV

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.”

Why, should parents teach and train their kids from the beginning that divorce cannot enter their children’s mind, if they want their marriage to be successful?

If divorce is not an option the only other option is working out the marital problems.

Ephesians 4:1–3 NKJV

1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Romans 14:19 ESV

19 So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Colossians 3:13 NKJV

13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

If children learn from a young age to “Stand Against Divorce” and make that clear to the one they are dating and then engaged to then our children will not have to suffer the pain and suffering divorce brings on a family.