2019-01-23 Mark 10:1-10
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1 He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on him again, and as was his custom he taught them again.
2 Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 He replied to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses permitted us to write divorce papers and send her away.”
5 But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.
6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
10 When they were in the house again, the disciples questioned him about this matter.
11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
12 Also, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
There is a difference between permissible, and ideal.
There is a difference between permissible, and ideal.
2 Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 He replied to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses permitted us to write divorce papers and send her away.”
5 But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.
6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
We live in a day asking, “what can I get away with?”.
We live in a day asking, “what can I get away with?”.
2 Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 He replied to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses permitted us to write divorce papers and send her away.”
5 But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.
Illus: Whenever I come to this passage of text, I know I will always have people disagree with me.
Truthfully we are living in a time when people want to know what is the most I can get away with without sinning. What is the most God will allow me to do.
This line of reasoning hits at how broken both we, and our culture is. We do not wonder what is the ideal God desires, but instead we ask where is the line of sin that we can approach.
It shows we love sin more than we love God. We want to know how much we can get away with, not what God really desires from us.
15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!
16 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?
17 But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over,
18 and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
23 “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.
24 No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.
A redeemed heart will seek to live for the ideals of God.
A redeemed heart will seek to live for the ideals of God.
5 But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.
6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Illus: I try to be a good husband. I try to love and take care of my wife.
That said, often the conflict we have as a married couple is because I am selfish. I will often choose my own desires and wants over the wants and desires of my family.
Now you know the phrase, “Happy wife… Happy Life.”
In denying myself and choosing my wife, I may miss out on some personal doting. That aside, when I choose my wife, our relationship grows, we find joy together, and will experience a happiness that is better than had I chosen my selfish pursuit.
The same is true for God. God has allowed for us as men to pursue our selfish desires. We might find temporary relief from the difficult path of denying self in those moments. But abundant life is not found in walking the line of permissiblity , but instead it is found in finding life in God himself.
This means we must trust that even the hard teachings of scripture turn out for our good.
23 “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.
24 No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.
Always ask, what is God’s intent.
Always ask, what is God’s intent.
5 But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.
6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Jesus taught the pre-fall blueprint.
Jesus taught the pre-fall blueprint.
5 But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.
6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Illus: We don’t get to define what the family looks like. We don’t get to define sin. We don’t get to define what a godward life looks like.
God did when he created the world in perfection.
Before the sin entered the world we got to see what God intended. We got to see the original design.
Over and over, specifically when it comes to the family, Jesus and paul sight the garden of eden to explain how things should be.
What defines the ideals for our family is not our culture, nor our circumstances, but instead God. And God has communicated clearly what he intends regarding the family.
Specifically when it comes to the family, look to the original blue print...
22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
23 because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
26 to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
30 since we are members of his body.
31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
32 This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
God’s blueprint is often offensive to a broken world.
God’s blueprint is often offensive to a broken world.
(we don’t want to admit to our brokenness)
5 But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.
6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Illus: Let’s be straight… Christians look like backwards hicks in today's world.
Our teaching on divorce seems antiquated.
We live in a world that says marriage should be between any two consenting persons…and the need for marriage is evaporating as cohabitation is on the rise.
Yesterday New York passed a bill allowing abortion up to 39 weeks in some circumstances.
We are no longer defined as male and female, but can choose our genders as we please.
In the midst of all of this, we ask are we really the hateful people they say we are.
The answer is no. We should pursue the ideal of God’s design for marriage, loving people who have fallen for the lies of the sexual revolution, and giving grace to people who have seen the hollowness of broken marriages.
It is possible to stand in truth giving empathy and grace.
14 But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
15 The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.
16 For who has known the Lord’s mind, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
God gives grace.
God gives grace.
10 When they were in the house again, the disciples questioned him about this matter.
11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
12 Also, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Does your heart fight for your liberty or God’s intent?
Does your heart fight for your liberty or God’s intent?
Illus: Tonight you might be mad at me. This passage might be tough for you.
Thats ok.
Does your heart look for personal justification, or God’s ideal.
Do you look to vindicate your self, or humbly approach God embracing his grace.
What has been done, who you have been, the decisions you have made are in the past.
The question now, is whether you will continue to look for the permissiblity of a hard heart, or the abundant life of God’s ideals.
24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.