Keeping The Vow 5

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Prayer:

define vow: solemnly promise to do a specified thing. :oath, pledge, bond, covenant, commitment, affirmation, assurance, guarantee;

The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 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’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

MARRIAGE VOWS:

THE MINISTER TO THE MAN:

(Name) , do you take this woman to be your wedded

wife? And do you earnestly promise, before God and these witnesses, that you will love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health; and that, forsaking all others for her alone, you will perform unto her all the respect that a husband owes to his wife, until God,

by death shall separate you? MAN: "I will"

Forsake: abandon (someone or something): • renounce or give up, desert, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with; jilt, strand, leave stranded, leave in the lurch, throw over

1 he forsook his wife: abandon, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with; jilt, strand, leave stranded, leave in the lurch, throw ove

Alone: Separated, Detached, No One Else

Number One priority is your spouse...

Why do some marriages fail? wrong priorities

Malachi 2:10–16 GW

10 Don’t all of us have the same father? Hasn’t the same God created us? Why are we unfaithful to each other? And why do we dishonor the promise given to our ancestors? 11 Judah has been unfaithful! A disgusting thing has been done in Israel and Jerusalem. Judah has dishonored the holy place that the Lord loves and has married a woman who worships a foreign god. 12 May the Lord exclude anyone who does this, whoever he may be. May he exclude them from Jacob’s tents and from bringing offerings to the Lord of Armies. 13 Here is another thing you do: You cover the Lord’s altar with tears. You moan and groan because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them from you. 14 But you ask, “Why ⌊aren’t our offerings accepted⌋?” It is because the Lord is a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been unfaithful. Yet, she is your companion, the wife of your marriage vows. 15 Didn’t ⌊God⌋ make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. And what does the same ⌊God⌋ look for but godly descendants? So be careful not to be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. 16 “I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel. “I hate the person who covers himself with violence,” says the Lord of Armies. “Be careful not to be unfaithful.”

Mal 2:10-

First issue God has is: the priest won’t listen & won’t give honor to God’s name, So God says he will curse the blessing that they give, God states in verse 3 he is going to punish the priest descendants and cause them to have manure splattered on their faces from festival sacrifice. And then he would throw them out with the Manure pile.

God then explains in verse 5 he has made a promise to Levi of Life and Peace, so that Levi would respect God, And That Levi respected God and stood in awe of his name. And the Teaching form his mouth was true. Nothing unjust was found on his lips. He lived in Peace and honesty and turned many people away from sin.

Verse 6-9

Malachi 2:6–9 GW

6 The teaching that came from his mouth was true. Nothing unjust was found on his lips. He lived with me in peace and honesty and turned many people away from sin. 7 “A priest’s lips should preserve knowledge. Then, because he is the messenger for the Lord of Armies, people will seek instruction from his mouth. 8 “But you have turned from the ⌊correct⌋ path and caused many to stumble over my teachings. You have corrupted the promise made to Levi,” says the Lord of Armies. 9 “So I have made you disgusting, and I have humiliated you in front of all the people, because you have not followed my ways. You have been unfair when ⌊applying⌋ my teachings.”

4. At this Point Malachi moves into the issue of People breaking their marriage vows

question asked Why are we unfaithful to each other

Judah ( has been unfaithful) he states because he married a women who worships a foreign god.

Malachi then states may God exclude anyone who does this.. whoever they may be..

13 verse: 13 Here is another thing you do: You cover the Lord’s altar with tears. You moan and groan because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them from you. (GOD’S WORD Translation. )

GOD’S WORD Translation. (1995). (). Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group.

Why don’t he except our offerings?

GOD’S WORD Translation The People Break Their Marriage Vows

It is because the LORD is a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been unfaithful. Yet, she is your companion, the wife of your marriage vows.

The One that you should have forsaken all others for.

verse 15

15 Didn’t ⌊God⌋ make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. And what does the same ⌊God⌋ look for but godly descendants? So be careful not to be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

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⌋ enclose words that the translation team supplied because the context contains meaning that is not explicitly stated in the original language.

The Message Chapter 2

16  “I hate divorce,” says the GOD of Israel. GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies says, “I hate the violent dismembering of the ‘one flesh’ of marriage.” So watch yourselves. Don’t let your guard down. Don’t cheat.

⌊ enclose words that the translation team supplied because the context contains meaning that is not explicitly stated in the original language.

God hates the violent pulling apart of Marriage

⌋ enclose words that the translation team supplied because the context contains meaning that is not explicitly stated in the original language.

Don’t let your guard down (forsake everything for your marriage)

Don’t cheat (forsake everything for your spouse)