Adultery
Blue v1-27 Ch 10 MarkDownload | Duration: 00:12:54
People get divorced for various reasons... finances, character flaws, misunderstandings, sexual immorality, butting heads - can't get along... but all this is not because people needed to start off perfect, because the fall didn't permit that, separation is linked to a hardened heart more so than the flaw itself that helped the decision to separate come about. If to reasonably agree that people every where have need for more personal improvement than why do we give up when being made to feel inconvenienced? We want mercy given to us if we cause the problem but when time to suffer for someone else's mistake we are willing only to take it so far, and don't practice the 70 times 7 rule flawlessly. So what's the deal? What God has joined together, let not man separate (v9). This is true even in my own marriage, where there have been countless things that have tried to separate Mike and I but when God decided the 2 shall become 1 flesh (v8), then that's just the way it is. Adultery isn't just being married then getting caught sleeping around, it is also divorcing then marrying someone else because your heart is hard (v11-12). For it is better to take time deciding that once you're married you intend to suffer with your partner's weaknesses with the intention of helping them overcome, then to have two and three divorces under your belt... since who doesn't need help overcoming weaknesses in the world we live in today? And whether it is a money problem, sexual problem, or personality conflict problem, why haven't you taken this to Christ? With God all things are possible (v27).
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