DIVORCE.


DO WHAT GOD SAYS NOT WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.
When people wonder what causes divorce, they say faults could come from either the husband or the wife – it could be infidelity or adultery and this goes on from generation to generations in this manner. What bothers is that, what happens in one place is similar or the same in other places.
The figures are mind-blowing especially in the US, Europe and other regions of the world. Back in the days when Jesus was on earth; the Pharisees asked Jesus about this subject2 but people misinterpreted what Jesus said about divorce. There were two things Jesus said, He pointed out what Moses told them to do which was according to the hardiness of the people’s heart which said that they can file a certificate of divorce on the bases of adultery2: secondly He said God plan marriage for both the man and the woman who are two people to become one flesh2 – one flesh. And then said anyone who divorces his wife or anyone who divorces her husband commits adultery.
One flesh, the man shall leave his father’s and mother’s house so also the woman (the cling to the man) and becomes one flesh1. One flesh is inseparable, that is the plan of God for marriage. To this end, God created us in His image; in His image He created man and woman1: He as God is trinity which can’t be separated from – The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit is one. As we are God’s images, Jesus emphasis is that as the man is one with the women they should not be separated at all, they should remain one ever – no divorcing each other4, that is why it is important to know who actually is your “born of my bone” (as Adam said)3. You will notice that Adam didn’t marry any other wife but Eve.
Divorce is as a result of immorality of the suspect either the wife or the husband. Immorality is begotten from sexual lust desires of the flesh (the sinful nature indwelling in man). And as God’s children born of Him, saved by Him; we are dead to sin and alive in righteousness8.how can we who are born of God dead to sin live in sin? Not anymore9. This case of sexual immorality is serious, that, God said we defile our bodies when we commit sexual immoralities5. Keeping the body safe from sexual immorality (which are enormous in today’s world) is to glorify God who is holy. The couples who are legally married is considered not defiling themselves because God instituted marriage but this should not lead to sexual immorality to themselves.
If we who born of God6 how can we accept to be unclean in this manner. For we know that God is love and He is holy in His entirety and for that reason we should be as He is, because he has bought us with a price into His7. Jesus is the bridegroom and Christians are the bride (Christians here are one body altogether); Jesus will never divorce His bride at all, it is the bride that should not divorce her bridegroom at all.



References: 1Gen. 1:27, 2Matthew 19:8-9, 3Gen. 2:23-24, 41 Cor. 7:10-11, 51 Cor. 6:15-20, 6John 1:13, 71 Cor. 6:20, 8Rom. 8:1-11, 9Rom. 6:2


Other reference: Mark 10:11, Deut. 21:10-24; 24:1-4, Ezra 10:1-16, Nehemiah 13:23-30, Jeremiah 3:1, Malachi 2:14-16, Luke 16:18

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