MARRIAGE, DIVORCE

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WORLDLINESS
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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
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GOD'S WILL FOR MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

• GODS ATTITUDE TOWARD DIVORCE
• ELIGIBILITY FOR SCRIPTURAL MARRIAGE
• GODS WILL FOR THE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE COHABITING OUTSIDE
OF MARRIAGE

• A. It is God's will for those who are merely
  cohabiting to
• 1. Repent.
• Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed
  undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God
  will judge. (Heb. 134)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE COHABITING OUTSIDE
OF MARRIAGE

• A. It is God's will for those who are merely
  cohabiting to
• 1. Repent.
• Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
  Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor
  thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
  kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But
  you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you
  were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and
  by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 69-11)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNSCRIPTURALLY
MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the unscripturally
  married to
• 1. Divorce.
• "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." (Matt.
  199)
• Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed
  undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God
  will judge. (Heb. 134)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNSCRIPTURALLY
MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the unscripturally
  married to
• 1. Divorce.
• Therefore put to death your members which are on
  the earth fornication, uncleanness, passion,
  evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  Because of these things the wrath of God is
  coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which
  you yourselves once walked when you lived in
  them. (Col. 35-7)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the scripturally married
  to
• 1. Be married for life.
• And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on
  Adam, and he slept and He took one of his ribs,
  and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the
  rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made
  into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And
  Adam said

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the scripturally married
  to
• 1. Be married for life.
• "This is now bone of my bones
• And flesh of my flesh
• She shall be called Woman,
• Because she was taken out of Man."
• Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother
  and be joined to his wife, and they shall become
  one flesh. (Gen. 221-24)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the scripturally married
  to
• 1. Be married for life.
• And He answered and said to them, "Have you not
  read that He who made them at the beginning 'made
  them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason
  a man shall leave his father and mother and be
  joined to his wife, and the two shall become one
  flesh'? So then, they are no longer two but one
  flesh. Therefore what God has joined together,
  let not man separate." (Matt. 195-6)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the scripturally married
  to
• 1. Be married for life.
• Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to
  those who know the law), that the law has
  dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the
  woman who has a husband is bound by the law to
  her husband as long as he lives. But if the
  husband dies, she is released from the law of her
  husband. (Rom. 71-2)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the scripturally married
  to
• 1. Be married for life.
• Satisfy one another's desires for affection.
• Let the husband render to his wife the affection
  due her, and likewise also the wife to her
  husband. The wife does not have authority over
  her own body, but the husband does. And likewise
  the husband does not have authority over his own
  body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one
  another....

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the scripturally married
  to
• 1. Be married for life.
• Satisfy one another's desires for affection.
• ... except with consent for a time, that you may
  give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come
  together again so that Satan does not tempt you
  because of your lack of self-control. (1 Cor.
  73-5).

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• A. It is God's will for the scripturally married
  to
• 1. Be married for life.
• Satisfy one another's desires for affection.
• Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed
  undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God
  will judge. (Heb. 134).

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• But I want you to know that the head of every man
  is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head
  of Christ is God. (1 Cor. 113)
• For the husband is head of the wife, as also
  Christ is head of the church and He is the
  Savior of the body. (Eph. 523).

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• 2. Lovesee to the needs ofhis wife.
• Therefore, just as the church is subject to
  Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
  in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as
  Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for
  her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with
  the washing of water by the word,

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• 2. Lovesee to the needs ofhis wife.
• that He might present her to Himself a glorious
  church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such
  thing, but that she should be holy and without
  blemish.

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• 2. Lovesee to the needs ofhis wife.
• So husbands ought to love their own wives as
  their own bodies he who loves his wife loves
  himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but
  nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does
  the church.

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• 2. Lovesee to the needs ofhis wife.
• For we are members of His body, of His flesh and
  of His bones. "For this reason a man shall leave
  his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
  and the two shall become one flesh."

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• 2. Lovesee to the needs ofhis wife.
• This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning
  Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one
  of you in particular so love his own wife as
  himself, and let the wife see that she respects
  her husband. (Eph. 524-33)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• 2. Lovesee to the needs ofhis wife.
• Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter
  toward them. (Col. 319)

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• 2. Lovesee to the needs ofhis wife.
• Give honor to his wife.
• Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with
  understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to
  the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of
  the grace of life, that your prayers may not be
  hindered. (1 Peter 37).

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GOD'S WILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCRIPTURALLY MARRIED

• B. It is God's will for a scriptural husband to
• 1. Be the head of his wife.
• 2. Lovesee to the needs ofhis wife.
• Give honor to his wife.
• Provide for his family.
• But if anyone does not provide for his own, and
  especially for those of his household, he has
  denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  (1 Tim. 58).