Outline Matthew 19:39

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Outline Matthew 193-9
DIVORCE

• Verse 3 Pharisees Test
• School of Hillel
• He that desires to be divorced from his wife
  for any cause whatever, (and many such causes
  happen among men,) let him in writing give
  assurance that he will never use her as his
  wife any more for by this means she may be at
  liberty to marry another husband, although before
  this bill of divorce be given, she is not to be
  permitted so to do (Josephus, Antiq. of the
  Jews, 4823)
• Verse 4-6 Jesus Answers
• Reaffirmed the Genesis 224 ideal nullifying
  divorce and polygamy

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Outline Matthew 193-9
DIVORCE

• Verse 7 Pharisees Counter
• appeals to Deuteronomy 241ff
• recognized the implication ofJesus teaching
  wasdifferent than what Mosestaught
• Verse 8 Jesus Answers
• Moses made a concessionbased upon the hardness
  of hearts
• those who came out of Egyptwere corrupt (Ex.
  327-9 Deut. 135 325, 20 etc.)
• Hardness of Heart (Acts 1730 e.g., Hos.
  139-11)
• from the beginning it was not so (cf. v.4)
• Jesus teaching is not Deuteronomy 24 doctrine
  (cf. Matt. 531, 32)!
• Jesus teaching predates Deuteronomy 24 and
  thereby nullifies that Mosaic provision

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Outline Matthew 193-9
DIVORCE REMARRIAGE

• Verse 9 The Lords Divorce Remarriage
  Doctrine
• And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife,
  except for sexual immorality, and marries
  another, commits adultery and whoever marries
  her who is divorced commits adultery

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Divorce RemarriageDIFFERENT LAWS

• Moses Law it has been said (Matt. 531)

• Jesus Law But I say to you (Matt. 532)

• fornicator put away by death (Deut. 2222)
• could divorce shy of fornication (Deut. 241,
  viz., uncleanness)
• put away woman may remarry (Deut. 241, 2)
• man she marries not in adultery (Deut. 243)
• 1st husband may never get her back after she
  remarries (Deut. 244)

• fornicator put away by divorce (Matt. 199)
• by fornication alone (Matt. 199)
• put away woman may not remarry/commits adultery
  (Lk. 1618 Mk. 1012 Rom. 73a)
• man she marries is in adultery (Lk. 1618 Matt.
  531, 32)
• 1st husband may never get her back if he puts her
  away for fornication and remarries

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Did Jesus Preach the Gospel or Moses?

• Some falsely contend that Matthew 1-27 is Old
  Testament Law nailed to the cross
• Jesus lived under the Old Covenant (Gal. 44)
• YET, Jesus taught the gospel when He came!
• Matthew 531, 32 is the gospel of the kingdom!

The law and the prophets were until John. Since
that time the kingdom of God has been preached,
and everyone is pressing into it (Lk. 1616)
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Consequences of Teaching Matthew 1-27 is Old
Testament Scripture

• Jesus CANCELLED Himself
• If what Jesus spoke and commanded prior to His
  death is Old Testament Law, then He nailed His
  own teaching to the cross!
• All of Jesus earthly teaching was only in force
  for three years!
• Why have all such teaching at the end of the
  covenant?
• NO PURPOSE for writing the gospels
• The gospels were written years after Jesus died
  (Jn. 221, 22)
• Why write books that had already been cancelled
  at the cross?
• If Matthew 1-27 is Old Testament Scripture, then
  there is absolutely NO EXCEPTION for divorce and
  remarriage today!
• Matthew 532 and 199 are the only passages in
  all the New Testament that reveal the exception
  of fornication!

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Beware!

• Matthew 199 and 532 is the doctrine of Christ
• It must be revered, defended, and obeyed
• Those who reject it must themselves be rejected
  (2 Jn. 9-11)
• False teachers can make a good showing
• Beware of false prophets, who come to you in
  sheeps clothing. . . (Matt. 715)
• For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed
  appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full
  of dead mens bones and all uncleanness (Matt.
  2327)
• Divorce Remarriage Perverts are only in power
  because men desire to cohabit in adulterous
  marriages
• For the time will come when they will not endure
  sound doctrine, but according to their own
  desires, because they have itching ears, they
  will heap up for themselves teachers (2 Tim.
  43)
• None will escape the wrath of God, fornicators
  and adulterers God will judge (Heb. 134)

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What Will You Give For Your Soul?

• For what profit is it to a man if he gains the
  whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will
  a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matt.
  1626)
• So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all
  that he has cannot be My disciple (Lk. 1433)

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Deut. 241-4 Matt. 199(NOT THE SAME LAW)

• DEUT 24
• marries
• finds uncleanness (nakedness, improper conduct)
• write certificate
• send away
• woman may become anothers wife
• second husband divorces her or dies
• first husband cannot take her back

• MATT 19
• marries
• whoever divorces wife and remarries commits
  adultery (cf. Rom. 73a Mt. 532 Mk. 1011 Lk.
  1618)
• except when divorces for fornication (ill. sex.
  immorality, adultery, homo., lesb., animal,
  incest, etc., see Strongs 4202)
• whoever marries the divorced commits adultery
  woman may not become anothers wife