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Setting: New Ministry Area
(vv.
1-2)
Implications: Why did Jesus move ministry areas?
Where did he go and why?
Conflict: The Pharisees Test Jesus
(v. 3)
Why do the Pharisees continue to test Jesus?
Turn the people away from Jesus?
Try to get Jesus arrested by Herod (it was John’s preaching about divorce that got him arrested and beheaded)?
1) God’s Plan Is Good, People Make A Mess Of God’s Good Plan
(v. 3)
Why do the Pharisees try to show themselves righteous when they divorce based on Moses’ teaching?
Jesus’ Response: “God Decides What Marriage Is, Not Man”
(vv.
4-6)
(vv.
4) Back to Creation (which trumps Dt.)
(vv.
4-5)
(vv.
4) God the Creator instituted marriage
God created men and women to be together, not to be divorced.
(vv.
4) Marriage belongs to God, but He gave it to humanity
(v.
4) God created male and female, so the genders belong to God
(v. 5) God created the process whereby people leave their parents and are joined to their spouses.
(v. 5) Marriage is a joining of the flesh
(v. 5) The two become one
(v.
6) God did not intend divorce from the beginning
(v. 6) We humans should not be in the business of undoing God’s creation
We humans should not be in the business of undoing God’s creation
Pharisee’s Response: “Moses Said We Could!”
(v.
7) Pharisees again test Jesus as to whether he follows Moses or not.
Pharisees again test Jesus as to whether he follows Moses or not.
Jesus’ Response: “You Have Hard Hearts!”
(vv.
8-9)
(v.
8) Moses allowed divorce, God does not will divorce to happen
(v.
9) Can divorce be justified?
Only because of hardness of hearts.
Malachi 2:
while divorce is allowed in the Torah, it is not really God’s actual will.
The “two” were to be “one,” end of point!
(v.
8) Divorce was not God’s original plan, but is the result of humans living and interacting in a fallen world.
while divorce is allowed in the Torah, it is not really God’s actual will.
The “two” were to be “one,” end of point!
When sinful humanity “separates” what God has “joined,” it can only point to sin, the antithesis of what God wants.
It is not whether people have a “right” to divorce (the legal aspect) but rather whether such can ever be in accordance with God’s will (the moral and spiritual aspect).
(v.
9) Jesus permits divorce (“I say to you”) only on the grounds of sexual immorality.
() Paul permits divorce based on abandonment (a sign of an unbeliever)
1) (v.
10) To believers, Paul’s commands come from God
a) (v.
10) Do not divorce
b) (v.
11) If you do divorce, remain unmarried or reconcile to your husband (impossible to reconcile if other spouse has remarried based on )
c) (v.
11) Men and women are the same regarding these commands
2) (v.
12) To mixed (believer and unbeliever) couples, Paul commands (not God; thus a recommendation?)
a) (vv.
12-13) If an unbelieving spouse consents to live with a believing spouse, do not divorce just because you are not both believers
b) (v.
14) Believing spouses are a blessing to their unbelieving spouses.
In some way, which I don’t understand, the unbeliever is “made holy” because of the believing spouse.
So also the children are “holy” because of the believing spouse.
c) (v.
15) If the unbeliever abandons and separates from the believer, the believer is no longer yoked to that unbelieving spouse (it is as if they were not married in the first place)
i) An implication of this “abandonment” is that the believer who was “abandoned”by an unbeliever is free to re-marry.
ii) If the believer who was abandoned re-marries, they cannot reconcile with the former spouse.
Likewise, if the unbelieving spouse re-marries and then later divorces that spouse and wants to reconcile, they cannot.
(v.
9) Divorce and remarriage on any other grounds is adultery.
(Except in the case of the death of a spouse, according to Paul)
Re-Marriage () Paul permits a woman to re-marry after the death of a spouse, yet believes that a widow is better off to remain unmarried.
Re-Marriage () Paul, in describing our relationship to the Torah describes the relationship as similar to a wife and her husband.
If her husband dies, she is free from the law.
If her husband is alive, she is an adulterer if she re-marries.
2) Disciples Draw Near to Discern the Deeper Meaning
(v.
10) If divorce and remarriage is so bad, people should just not risk it and not get married.
If divorce and remarriage is so bad, people should just not risk it and not get married.
Jesus’ Response: The Gift of Singleness is Not For Everyone
(vv.
11-12)
(v.
11) Not everyone can handle being single
()“It is not good for the man to be alone”
() “If you burn with passion, then get married”
(v.
12) A Case Example: Eunuchs (an aspect of human sexuality as a result of living in a fallen world)
(v.
12) Some eunuchs are born that way
(v.
12) Some eunuchs are forcibly made that way
(v.
12) Some eunuchs voluntarily make themselves that way “for the kingdom of heaven”
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