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May 25, 2008
Title: Making Marriage Work
Text: Matthew 19:1-12
Proposition: We have misunderstood the purpose of confrontation and reconciliation.
Application: Dealing with sin and forgiveness are the couple and the churches alternative to divorce.
Opening: Don Miller and the crashes of the 500.
I.
The Debate
What is the ground for Divorce
Deuteronomy 24:1
Shammai – Indecent
Hillell - /Something /Indecent
II.
The Issue of Focus
What about the following verses?
(v.2-4)
What is the consequence of filling out that certificate?
Teaching of multiple wives (Exodus 21:10)
Consequences – Don’t reduce her level
Contemporary Church – Biblical~/Non-Biblical divorce
There is divorce
In the understanding of marriage it is all non-Biblical
In dealing with sin - unfaithfulness leads to bonds that cannot be repaired
But this does not bind a partner to divorce.
III.
The Issue of Sin
The struggle of individual sin is the threat to marriage.
Bob Russell wrote “Someone once said that when the wedding march begins, a bride sees three things—the aisle, the altar, and him—and from that time on her motto is: ‘I'll alter him.’
And when it doesn't work that way, there is disillusionment and difficulty.”[i]
Bill Sperle, restores cars for the IMSHoF – It is challenging, but the reward is when you can drive them again
The church offers hope in the change by which the Gospel brings
Forgiving spouses
Shared experiences of others who have overcome the marriages on the rocks
Accountability for a brother~/sister in error, protection for one in danger.
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[i] Bob Russell, Take Comfort: Encouraging Words from Second Corinthians (The Living Word Inc., 1991), pp.
91-92
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