*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Fri/28th/Jan/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS (42)*
_"It was also said, Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce. But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery"_ (Matt 5:31-32). Despite the fact that the Mosaic law included provisions regulating divorce, the Old Testament makes it clear that divorce falls short of God's ideal. It is not surprising, then, that when asked about divorce and remarriage, Jesus took His listeners all the way back to the beginning, reminding them that God created humanity as male and female and stipulated that the man, upon marriage, was to leave his father and mother and be united to his wife in one-flesh union before God that people ought not to break: _"So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."_
Jesus once again demonstrates God's true and original intent. In this case, God means for marriages to be for life. Rather than agreeing that marriages can and should be dissolved for any petty reasons, Christ describes divorces motivated by something less than sexual immorality to be invalid. The primary point is that a man may not legitimately divorce his unless she violates the marriage through adultery. Because the divorce is invalid, the man is guilty of causing his wife to commit adultery when she remarries another man. In the same way, a man who marries a woman whose divorce was not for valid reason also becomes guilty of adultery.
From Jesus' view, false divorces - no matter how legal the religious leaders and people say they are - lead to more and more adultery. It's because God instituted marriage, and deeply values it for its own sake. Marriage is not only the fundamental relationship of every culture; it is meant to be a representation of Christ and the Church. (Ephesians 5:25-33).
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_Rather than seeing divorce as a loophole, Jesus indicates that we ought to see marriage as a sacred union._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
#1406 ELK.
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