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THE LAWS OF THE KINGDOM LECTURE 7.Cont.
THE TRUTH ABOUT MARRIAGE: THE TRUTH ABOUT DIVORCE.
1980.....Family households maintained by a woman with no
husband present comprise 11% of all households - a 46% increase
since 1970.
...One in seven families have no father in the home.
Divorces ... 1870 ... 1 divorce in every 34 marriages.
Divorces ... 1920 ... 1 divorce in every 7 marriages.
Divorces ... 1940 ... 1 divorce in every 6 marriages.
Divorces ... 1960 ... 1 divorce in every 4 marriages.
Divorces ... 1972 ... 1 divorce in every 3 marriages.
Divorces ... 1977 ... 1 divorce in every 2 marriages.
Russia's divorce rate in 1978 - 1 in 3. That's a country with
170 eligible women for every 100 eligible men!
Matthew 24:37-39
"For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days
of Noah. For as in those days which were before the flood they
were eating and drinking, they were marrying and giving in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did
not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so
shall the coming of the Son of Man be."
AND LOOK AT THESE FACTS ON FAMILY LIFE:
...One in three children between the ages of six and seventeen
today live with just one parent.
...One in four pregnancies ends in abortion throughout the world
each year - 30 million 'legal' abortions.
...Nowadays, a family is a group of people who have keys to the
same house!
...Our understanding of how to live with one another is still
far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
QUITTING ON MARRIAGE
Sociologist, Dr. David Mace says, "Since women have
assertiveness, independence and personhood, men no longer feel
the compulsion to provide for them. The new attitude is, "If I
walk out on my wife, she is quite capable to taking care of
herself."
THE TRUTH ABOUT IMMORALITY.
Immorality is a sin not only against the human body, but
against the Body of Christ...and it is a terribly contagious sin.
1 Corinthians 6:18 says, "Flee immorality." Every other sin
that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man SINS
AGAINST HIS OWN BODY." The Body of Christ is being splintered,
and often rendered ineffective, because of rampant divorce
within the church.
BASE YOUR MARRIAGE ON GOD'S WORD.
Matthew 7:24-27
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine, and acts
upon them, may be compared to the wise man, who built his house
upon the rock. And the rain descended and the floods came and
burst against that house; and kyet it did not fall, for it had
begn founded upon the rock. And everyone who hears these words
of mine, and does not act upon them, will be a foolish man, who
built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the
winds blew and burst against that house; and it fell, and great
was its fall."
The above passage of Scripture tells us:
1. There will be storms. Storms cause us to go back to the
Book and get God's answers for ending the storm.
2. The result of your home is your decision - reached by
whether or not you have your home built on doing what the
Word of God says to do - ACTING UPON THE WORD.
3. Hearing the Word of God without acting upon it will not
cause your home to stand. The value of the Bible doesn't
consist merely in knowing it, but in living it.
TRIAL MARRIAGES
God condemns trial marriages not only because of the immorality
involved, but because He knows the wretched hurt that comes when
one selfish partner in such a lifestyle sees the trial as a
miserable failure - while the other partner thinks the trial
is a success. Terrible heartbreak in such a situation is the
inevitable result for someone when the other person walks out.
THE TRUTH ABOUT MARRIAGE.
THREE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY INGREDIENTS FOR ANY MARRIAGE: LOVE,
TRUST AND RESPONSIBILITY
1. LOVE:
A husband is to agape his wife...Eph.5:25. AGAPE = WILL TO LOVE
"Agape" alove means choosing to do the highest good for the
wife in spite of her response. It's a love that gives and gives
and gives without requiring something back.
The association of the word "philandros", describing the love a
wife must have for her husband, finds its root in the
word "phileo" because it describes a kinsman relationship.
Because 1 Corinthians 13, 1 John and other places in the New
Testament call upon all Christians to love with "agape" love -
the wife is also to obviously "agape" her husband too.
2. TRUST:
The second absolutely essential ingredient for a merger. If
you can't trust your mate, trust God with your mate.
3. RESPONSIBILITY:
The third absolutely essential ingredient for a merger. There can
be NO excuse for not being a responsible mate. Success in
marriage is more than FINDING the right person - it's a matter
of BEING the right person!
A good question to ask yourself is, "If I were my mate, would I
like being married to me?" If not - CHANGE!
GOD HAS THREE VIEWPOINTS TOWARD DIVORCE.
1. A viewpoint toward two unsaved persons married to each other.
2. A viewpoint toward a believer married to an unbeliever.
3. Christian marriage - two that He has put together.
FIRST, GOD SAYS NOTHING TO THE UNSAVED COUPLE ABOUT DIVORCE.
The Bible simply doesn't recognize the world in the same light as
it's own.
There are the children of darkness living in the "Kingdom of
Darkness" and the children of the day "who have been translated
into the "Kingdom of Light" Col.1:13.
Lost people act lost. How long will it take the church to
realize that Christians are the only ones who can live the
Christian life? (John 15:4-5).
The Bible has only two things to say to the heathlen (unsaved
people).
1. God loves you (John 3:16)
2. God sent His only begotten Son into this world to save
you IF you'll repent and be saved (John 5:24; 2 Peter 3:9)
SECOND: GOD'S WORD DOES SPEAK TO THE CHRISTIAN MARRIED TO AN
UNSAVED MATE - FIRST AND FOREMOST, GOD SAYS, "DON'T DO IT!!!"
2 Corinthians 6:14
"Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what
partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what
fellowship has light with darkness?"
The answer is obvious - "Name!!!"
A Christian marrying an unsaved person is entering a forbidden
marriage and complete sin. 1 Corinthians 7:12-13
"But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a
wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let
him not send her away. And a woman who has an unbelieving
husband, and he consents to live with her, let her not send her
husband away."
So, Jesus taught on divorce between people who both called
themselves people of God. Paul taught on a believer being
married to an unbeliever.
THEREFORE:
1. The believer is to allow the unbeliever to live with him or
her if the unbeliever wants to do so. There's no rejection of
the unbeliever as a mate. That is, the Christian wife is to
submit to her husband whether he is a believer or not (1
Pet.3:1-6), and the Christian husband is to lovingly lead his
wife whether she is a believer or not (Ephesians 5:25-33).
2. However, if the unbeliever wants to leave the believer, the
believer is to "let the unbeliever go".
1 Corinthians 7:14-15
"For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and
the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing
husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they
are holy. Yet, if the unbelieving leaves, let him leave; the
brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God
has called us to peace."
THIRD, GOD'S WORD SPEAKS TO CHRISTIANS MARRIED TO EACH OTHER,
There is only one ground Christ ever gave two people calling
themselves "Christians" to divorce - Matthew 5:31-32, "And it
was said, "Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a
certificate of dismissal; but I say to you that every one who
divorces his wife, except for the cause of unchastity (porneia),
makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman
commits adultery."
"PORNEIA" - THE DESTROYER OF MARRIAGE
"Porneia" is the ugly Greek word that gets variously translated
in our English New Testaments by the words "unchastity",
"adultery" or "fornication". None of these English words
adequately describe "porneia". "Porneia" is a Greek word that
comes from an ancient root meaning "to sell" and it was used of
selling slaves for the purpose of prostitution.
"porneia" includes an attitude. We get our English words
"pornography", "pornographic", or "porno" from this wretched
Greek word."Porneia" embraces every kind of perverted sex sin
that's possible. It represents an immoral mind.
Jesus clearly said that "porneia" is total grounds for divorce.
If God gives such a person over to their lusts (Rom.1:28), He
doesn't expect the true believer not to give them up also.