Sermon Tone Analysis

The Sanctity of Marriage

Narrative, Pronouncement 9:33–10:45

2 Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” 5 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.

6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’

So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Controversy 1–12

10 Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.

11 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.”

Allusion, Old Testament 4

Saying, Legal 5–12

Allusion, Old Testament 6

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989).

Quotation, Old Testament 7–8

Divorce — Legally dissolving a marriage.

Exported from Logos Bible Software, 2:36 AM March 22, 2018.

Marriage — The state of being united to another person as husband or wife.

Focus of the Session: In this session I would like to communicate

Divorce Is Most Common During the Early Years

An estimated 80% of couples are headed in the direction of divorce within their first four to five years of marriage.

This startling, however common, trajectory is often because of decreased passion and excitement in the relationship.

As more financial, professional, and familial demands jockey for attention, maintaining that “spark” you experienced while dating can diminish in record time.

Avoid this pattern during those first critical years of marriage by prioritizing emotional connection and physical chemistry on a regular basis.

https://www.wevorce.com/blog/6-surprising-divorce-statistics-divorce-2017/

Objectives: As a result of their participation in this session I would like to help the congregation to be able to

Identify the possibility of when the divorce rate doubled in America?

Explore the cause of high Divorce rates doubled

Explain why remarriage after divorce is classed as adultery

Describe from the bible where remarriage may be permissible

Invite

5 Minutes: The teacher will show the audience a violin without the strings.

Then asked them can music be played as a violin without the strings.

Everyone will get a partner and discuss their findings.

Then we will look at the detached strings and ask if music can be played with the strings without the attachment to the violin?

The resources: A violin with no strings, Strings unattached to the violin, Tools to put the violin back together, the science of how long the process of repair of the violin to get it restored to normal.

15 Minutes: INFORM

Adultery, Creation, Education, Family: Husbands, Family: Parents, Family: Wives, Homosexuality, Law, Scripture, Sex

Activity each person take 2 minutes and write what each person is saying.

Get into groups of 4-5 people and discuss these 3 questions.

Resources: Pen, paper,

Between 1960 and 1980, when the number of women in the work force doubled, the divorce rate did, too.11

Divorce has opened a Pandora’s Box as many women have experienced a significant drop in family income and an abrupt change of lifestyle, not to mention a backlash from the rise of crime linked to broken homes.

The view of Scripture is clear (see ; ).

Dorothy Patterson, “The Impact of Feminism on Church & State,” Conservative Theological Journal Volume 3 3, no. 9 (1999): 211.

What are the alternative to women in the work force?

Is there a better solution to women in the work force?

What are the pros and cons of Divorce?

We will now get 3 people to come and share 1 answer from themselves or someone from the group.

Dorothy Patterson, “The Impact of Feminism on Church & State,” Conservative Theological Journal Volume 3 3, no. 9 (1999): 211.

15 Minutes: Investigate

Resources: Pen, paper, Bibles using tablets or cell phones to get multiply versions.

Get back in groups of 3’s and each of you find this scripture in a different version you have 2 minutes each.

Purpose of marriage

Now read in 3 different versions of the bible

Synopsis

Marriage is part of God’s intention for humanity from creation and forms the basis for the family which is the primary unit of society.

Where marriage flourishes it blesses both the couple and the wider community.

Marriage is part of God’s plan for the human race

From creation

(KJV 1900) — 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

See also ; Man and woman are not independent of each other.

(KJV 1900) — 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

(KJV 1900) — 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

It is to provide companionship

(KJV 1900) — 18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

See also ; ;

(KJV 1900) — 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

It is to be a committed, exclusive relationship

(KJV 1900) — 10 Who can find a virtuous woman?

For her price is far above rubies.

11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, So that he shall have no need of spoil.

12 She will do him good and not evil All the days of her life.

It is to be a committed, exclusive relationship

(KJV 1900) — 23 And Adam 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 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

See also ; ;

15 minutes: Illustrate

(KJV 1900) — 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

(KJV 1900) — 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

It is a lifelong partnership

(KJV 1900) — 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

See also ;

(KJV 1900) — 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

(KJV 1900) — 39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

It is the intended context for raising children

(KJV 1900) — 15 And did not he make one?

Yet had he the residue of the spirit.

And wherefore one?

That he might seek a godly seed.

Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

See also

(KJV 1900) — 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

It will not exist in the life to come

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(KJV 1900) — 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

(KJV 1900) — 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

Marriage as a covenant relationship