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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:18 Here's the title of this message as we're in a series called how to, part 4. How to be married longer or not altogether. So last week, talked about or 20:30 weeks ago, I talked about marriage. And every time I preach about marriage, I'm going to fail in not addressing something, and I was going to do parenthood today. But I wanted to clean up some stuff0:41 from the third part of the series and do an extended talk about marriage because even someone from 1 of our locations said, I'm not married, and I don't know what to do, and I wanna just talk to that person, but I0:52 believe that there are many other people like that person, and we need to do this better in the church. We need to celebrate, celibate singleness. Yeah. Not just sit1:04 the world has an idea of singleness, not that 1. We're talking about celibate, honoring God with your body, and many people in our church do that. Many people need to start doing that and we need to stop letting it come1:16 across as if marriage is the only ultimate plan of God for your life. Some of you single people, you could get into a small group with a few1:28 miserable married people and realize how lucky you are. And some of you married people can get into a small group with some miserable single people and1:40 realize how lucky you are. That fear that verse we just read, let each person lead the life. Here's my question for you. Are you leading the life, or are you following1:52 the world, or the friends, or the education system, or whatever that you're engaged in? First Corinthians chapter2:02 7 is the longest chapter in the Bible on marriage, divorce, remarriage, singleness, and sex. There is an old adage in2:14 preaching that if you want the people to pay attention, just throw out the word sex every so often. I don't know if you've heard the story about the man and the woman2:26 who were going to the priest for several years for marital counseling. The priest couldn't get across this guy's brain, couldn't get into this guy's brain, that he has to be affectionate with his wife outside of the2:38 bedroom. He's gotta hug her and touch her without sexual intent. And so he he said, you're just not getting it, sir, so I'm gonna demonstrate. So the priest got up from his desk, came around to the couple,2:50 and held the wife's hands, picked her up out of her seat, and gave her a warm, affectionate hug, and then sat her back down. And he said, sir, the father said, sir, that is what you must do with your wife,3:02 for your wife every single day until the day you die. To which the husband responded, what time should I bring her back tomorrow, pastor? Talk about3:14 missing divorce for the trees right there. Here here's the reality. No 1 aims at divorce, but it happens. No 1 gets married. Nobody comes to the church and says, I'm gonna give this3:26 marriage 15 good years. But marriages end. No nobody says, I can't wait to have a marriage where we're fighting all the time. Amen. But it happens. Nobody3:37 aims in life at, you know, being single longer than they are than they wanted to be, but it happens. And so how do we handle that? Good news. The Bible has something to say. But let me give some3:49 context to this text. I hope you do have your Bibles open. And if you don't have a physical Bible, I give you permission to look at it on your smartphone because there's a lot of verses here that we gotta talk about.4:00 It's a long chapter. We're not gonna talk about every verse, but this is gonna help you. But I wanna give some context. And in seminary, they teach you that, any text without a context is a pretext. Now I don't know what4:11 that means, but here's what it really means in layman's terms. Here's what they're talking about. You have to understand that the Bible wasn't written to you. It was written for you.4:22 So there is a there is a context to the Corinthian church. First Corinthians is not a book, it's actually a letter. It's a letter written by a guy named Paul who, came to4:34 Christ because Jesus literally brought him to himself. Jesus had to evangelize Paul. So Paul comes to Christ. He becomes this incredible evangelist, apostle, leader of the church, spreads the gospel around the world,4:46 starts these churches all around the ancient world, around the Mediterranean coasts. And 1 of them is in the city of Corinth in the first century. The Corinthian church was started. It took off with a bang, but they4:56 started to live the Christian life, and things got complicated as they always do. So they wrote to Paul. They wrote Paul a letter, and they had5:08 questions. Somebody say questions. Questions. Does anybody ever have questions about the faith? You're in good company. They had questions. They didn't know what they should do with marriage and divorce and remarriage5:20 and singleness. They're all they're con they were confused. And so Paul writes to them, and this is his response to what they wrote to him. Okay? So when we I5:32 I say that because you will miss verse 1 if you don't realize or if you don't notice punctuation. Punctuation matters5:43 in the biblical text. And yes, it's in the original Greek language in the New Testament. So look with me at verse 1 as this chapter which we just read, but it's on the screen now. Now concerning the matters about which5:54 you, what? Wrote. Now what's the thing right after the word wrote? What is that called? That's a colon. What's the next thing after the space after the colon?6:06 A quotation mark. Which means that what Paul is about to write is something that they wrote to him. Because what Paul is not saying6:18 here is it's good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. He is not saying that's the law. Okay? Because if6:30 that was the case, I think that some married ladies in this house would be like, that's my life verse right there. Amen. Older married ladies. Anyway, so he's quoting6:42 because they wrote to him questions about sex and marriage and and they said, Paul, we think that it's good for men not to have sexual relations. Why would they say that? Well, context matters.6:54 Contextually speaking to the Corinthian church, they lived in the city called Corinth. Corinth was a lot like the a combination between Boston and Las Vegas. It was highly intellectual and highly sensual and pleasure7:05 driven. It was like those 2 cities in 1. So they would, you know, brag about how wise they were, and at the same time, they were sleeping with temple shrine prostitutes in the temple to Aphrodite on the on the7:16 mountaintop. This was a confused culture. We are living in the same culture. So because of the confusion of the culture, they reacted.7:28 Look at how sexually obsessed our culture is. Maybe we should just skip sex altogether. Paul's like, no, no, can't do that. He says in verse 2, but because of the temptation to7:40 sexual morality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. In in other words, don't let the culture dictate your convictions about7:51 marriage and about sex. Secondly, there was another issue at hand in the Corinthian context, which is around AD8:02 56 when Paul wrote this letter. That's that's what most historians believe. Paul's writing this in AD 56. Well, in AD 52, just before 4 years earlier, a massive earthquake had hit the8:14 city of Corinth. It was so bad that there was a famine, a resultant famine, because the food distribution supply lines were cut off. They couldn't farm. They were just trying to regain, you know, some semblance of peace8:26 in the city, and so they couldn't feed themselves. So what Paul says in verse 26, look what it says here in verse 26, I think that in view of the present distress, some translations8:38 say, in view of the present crisis. In other words, you can't eat. You can't eat. So he says, in light of the fact that you can't eat, maybe it's better that you8:50 don't get married and reproduce. Got it? The context changes how we interpret the text. Amen? You seeing this now?9:02 Because there's a phrase the eagles gave to us in this country that we sing to each other. When we're hungry, love will keep us9:13 alive. Lies. You can't eat love. It's part of a problem with our culture.9:25 So what so what happens here? There were some contextual issues. The the culture in which this church lived was obsessed with sex, was immoral, was saturated with all9:37 kinds of degrading lifestyle, were just hideous and all about, you know, the private parts. They just obsess with it. So some Christians in the Corinthian church said, let's just avoid sex all day.9:48 It's icky. It's dirty. It's yucky. That that's not the the body is the Lord's, so let's not defile it. And some people were saying, even in the marriage covenant, let's stop having sex. Some people were telling10:00 the church to do that. Then some people were single, and they were looking down their noses at their married counterparts in the church and saying, see, I'm single. I don't have to struggle. You have to struggle. You10:09 should've stayed single like me. And then some married people were looking down their noses at single people and saying, we're really godly because we're married, and you should find a godly spouse. And isn't it amazing10:18 how things don't change? So so here's what I want you to write down right off the top. Don't let worldly distortions lead to unbiblical contortions about marriage10:30 and singleness. Worldly distortions are everywhere. It's10:42 pride month. I live in the real world with you, and there's a whole bunch of contortions going on right now. Too many10:53 churches have forgotten that they have a God ordained biblical mandate to say to this world, we ain't like you. We march to the11:05 beat of a heavenly drummer. We're on our way to a kingdom that has foundations whose builder and maker is God Almighty. And we don't belong to this world even though we live in this world. We are members of a11:17 higher world. Now, that has to apply to how we approach everything in life,11:28 including this. Because because this will get you into a whole bunch of trouble.11:36 Don't raise your hand, but if you have had if you you understand why I've I've preceded11:48 this statement with that. If you have had sex outside of marriage, how did that work out for you? I12:00 bet I'm here to heal. I I bet that many of your emotional and mental and physical regrets are tied to12:12 using this in a way that the world has distorted for you, and God wants to redeem it. Good news is12:24 this is not it's not over. You you know, you're not you're not you're not damaged goods. God takes messes and turns them into a message.12:36 God takes sickness and turns it into healing. God takes dead bodies and turns them into resurrected saviors. Come on somebody. Okay. So we're not we're12:48 not people with no hope. We're people with everlasting hope. But we're never gonna live how we should if we listen to this world. Now I want you to think about the fact13:00 that the Corinthian church, there were some people who were so spiritual, so spiritual, so heavenly minded that they even thought they even thought that marriage sex was bad. And Paul's like, don't be stupid.13:13 Don't be stupid. So point number 1, if you're taking notes, marriage is for sex. Okay. Now if you are at our churches for the first13:25 time, I want to just take you back to the previous message on this series where I where I said that marriage was for 4 other13:36 things, and they were procreation, cooperation, cohabitation, and sanctification. And I just give you those that contextual insight because I'm not saying that marriage is only13:48 for sex if you're here for the first time, but it could help. If you're not interested14:00 in sex, don't get married. Amen. I just want a friend. I just want somebody that I can talk about my day14:12 with. You can find a girlfriend to do that with you. You can find a lady friend to do that with you. I don't think that there's many guys who would be like, I just want a person that I can communicate with14:23 after my long day at work. But but if if that's you, find some bros because, you know, that's14:35 fine. Marriage is for sex. I've opened14:47 Bandera's box, Chris. Okay. Calm down. So it's it's in the Bible though. Verse 3, the husband should give his14:59 wife her conjugal rights. I don't know if everybody was in prison in Corinthians or whatever. But anyway, it's just a phrase, like, just coming together, and he says, you don't have authority over your body15:11 if you are married. Hello? I have a pastor friend who tours the world and talks to pastors all around the world, and he has ministered to several15:24 pastors who have fallen through sexual immorality. And 99.9 percent of the time, the wife stopped having15:35 sex with the pastor. I'm just telling you ladies that if he's got a problem,15:47 it's not just his problem. Because we will castigate these guys, won't we? Yeah. Oh, he is banned from ministry for15:58 life. Life over. And then the woman is almost deified as a perfect angel. How do you know? Takes 2 to tangle or in this case, not tangle.16:10 Amen, somebody. Marriage is for sex. Yes. Amen. Marriage is for sex. Yes. If you're not interested in sex, don't get married. So so, he says16:22 in verse 5, this is why, do not deprive 1 another except perhaps by agreement. Oh, I like that. Oh, yes. You gotta agree to abstain from sex in marriage if16:34 you're going to abstain from there has to be agreement. Now ladies, agreement takes 2 parties. Amen, sir. Preach back. Preach back. And and then the point16:46 of abstaining is to devote yourself to prayer. I love the fact that the only biblical rationality for denying sex is to pray.16:58 Because I know you people, you don't pray that long. Amen, somebody. Okay. So then he says, come together again. He's not talking about go17:10 have coffee. Come together again is have sex again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self control. Oh, man. I17:22 love how nitty gritty the Bible is right here. This is because we do this with things in the Bible. We say, it's so spiritual. It's so way up here. It's so heavenly. No. No. No. It's down in the muck. It's down in17:34 the mud. It deals with reality. And what I love about verse 5 is that verse 5 is saying, and this is gonna pinch some people, but it should pinch everybody. Everybody17:47 struggles with self control. Amen. Everybody gets sexually tempted, especially in this culture, especially in America 20 24. Now18:00 there might be guys in this body or in our other locations, and you're not interested in sex with your wife anymore, and your wife is looking at me like, say something because I know you need to say something about this.18:11 Yeah. I do. There's a good chance he's hooked on virtual sex. Amen. And that has to be that has to be addressed. Amen. So waters church18:23 dot org slash help. Waters church dot org slash help. Because that virtual sex will create an appetite that real sex18:35 in the bonds of matrimony does not come close to. It's a it's a abomination. It's a distort don't let worldly18:47 distortions lead to unbiblical contortions. So men or women, because it's both sexes can be tempted here. If that's your deal, we want to help.18:59 We don't want to castigate you. We don't want to judge you or condemn you. We wanna help you. And you probably need to confess to somebody, and our elders and our elders' wives are there for19:10 you to have a place to do that so that you can get this out of just you wrestling with it and help get some help. Amen? Amen. Amen. So so the point though, again, back19:22 to the thought is that this is exactly what marriage is for. It should be enjoyed between a man and a woman for life.19:34 Because when you enjoy it together, you bond together. Verse 8 though, he goes now to the other end of the spectrum. He says to the unmarried. To the now the unmarried, the word here could mean people who were formerly19:46 married or or not yet married. And then he mentions widows, which are obviously people who were married but their spouse died. So there's 3 groups, divorced, never married, and19:58 widows. He says it's better to stay single if you can. Now let us never forget this because we do this with marriage and churches. We say the ultimate Christian20:09 experience is to be married and have children. That's not true. As good and godly and as wonderful as it is, it's not the ultimate. Our20:21 faith was started by a man who remained single his entire life. Jesus. He was sinless and single. He never got married and he20:33 never sinned. In fact, some theologians believe the reason why he never sinned is because he never got married. Okay. Paul the apostle spread the gospel20:45 around the whole world. Wasn't married. Our our faith was started and was expanded by 2 single guys. And all the married people, listen to me. I have it on good authority20:57 from Jesus' own lips that marriage ends in this age. There is no marriage in heaven, which is probably why it's heaven. Amen,21:09 somebody. Let's move on. If you're not interested in sex, don't get married. Don't do it. It's not fair to the person that you're gonna marry.21:21 It's just not. But when you idolatize marriage, you will see the person you potentially marry as the means of your happiness instead21:33 of what God intended for your marriage to be. I got a secondary point here. Write this down. 0.1 b, sex is for marriage.21:45 It's the exact Marriage is for sex, but sex is for marriage. What do I mean by that? Don't get don't get sexual until you get married. Amen. Again, worldly distortions lead to biblical21:56 contortions. Yes. We we have this, we had this explosive movement a couple of years ago in this country that has shown itself to be the fraudulent movement it always was. It was22:08 the hashtag me too movement. Hashtag me too. All the ladies, me too. Me too. I was abused. Power structures. All this stuff. And our world exploded. Me too. And22:20 I remember this because, there was this conversation at a, I think it was a roundtable of women on television about consent in sex outside of marriage.22:33 The reason why you get hashtag me too is because people don't wanna get married. They just wanna have fun. And sometimes the lady wants to have fun and then has22:45 the fun and then regrets the fun. In fact, more often than not, it's the lady that regrets the fun. So me too. Hashtag me too. Okay. I'm not saying that22:57 certain atrocities don't happen. They always happen. They do happen, and they still happen. But this conversation was so funny because the ladies on this show were saying, you know what we need to really, like, resolve23:09 the consent issue? Is wouldn't it be great if both partners, like, had a written agreement, and they both signed it, and then they had sex?23:21 We call that a marriage license. Circling back. Circling right back to the Bible23:33 was right the whole time, wasn't it? So I thought I would talk about this because sex is so powerful. Some of you, your your life is damaged because of sex. I gotta I gotta make an illustration. I'm gonna bring back an23:45 oldie but a goodie, an old illustration to make this point. So just bear with me because sex is powerful. Sex is like a power tool.23:56 It's a power tool. And, what I know about this power tool is it can do it can do 1 of 2 things.24:08 This tool could build your house Yes. Or it could wreck your house. If I use it properly,24:21 I can get the materials necessary to build the structure, make the appropriate cuts, level up the boards,24:33 establish a framework, and then put the walls on the inside and the outside and decorate it up. Amen? Amen. And I thought this is such a24:45 powerful actually, it's like a perfect illustration because these things are so dangerous. When they sell them to you, you24:57 get a manual that I thought a lot of manual principles that apply to this can totally apply to sex. So25:08 I got the manual. And I thought that I would share some of the principles on how to because they're they're25:20 compatible. Number 1, keep work area clean and well lit.25:33 Number 2, do not operate power tools in explosive atmospheres. Number 3, keep children and bystanders away while operating power tool.25:47 This is for pride month. Here we go. Power tool plugs must match the outlet.26:03 Do not abuse the cord. Never use the cord for carrying, pulling, or unplugging the power tool. Stay alert. Keep watch of what you're doing. Use26:15 common sense when operating power tool. This one's big. Do not use power tool while you are tired or under the influence of drugs, alcohol,26:27 or medication. There it is right there. It's amazing. You can build your house26:40 or wreck your house with sex. I got no skin in the game for you. I'm just telling you what God says to protect you. This is your life. So26:54 I always thought about I I I need to tell some some some young people that God has programmed your body to operate, with chemicals that27:05 cooperate with your physical activity. For instance, when I'm feeling depressed and I get depressed or stressed, I know what the answer is. And some of you27:17 guys say, prayer. Yeah. That's true. That's true. But what I do is I go to the gym. I get a sweat on. It's phenomenal, and I have27:29 to force myself to do it. And I come out of the gym, and I feel so much better. What happened was my physical body released chemicals that changed how I felt. Do you understand that there27:41 is an explosion of chemicals in your brain when you have sex? The the chemical that gets the most released in your brain during sex is27:52 oxytocin. Oxytocin. The synthetic hormone oxytocin is called a drug called pitocin. If anybody's been struggling in labor, they shoot you up with that, and28:04 then you give birth. And and the reason why is because oxytocin is released usually when a woman is giving birth as well. But oxytocin is released in both male and female brains at an explosive rate during the climax of28:16 sex. And and the reason why I bring that up is this, because oxytocin is a hormone and a neurological transmitter that is associated with empathy, trust, relationship28:28 building, bonding, listen to this, relaxation, and psychological wellness.28:39 Psychological wellness. I have had it with a culture that basically throws the wheels28:51 off when it comes to sex, being the same culture that the church gets its cues from on mental health. They use their bodies29:03 like a playground, and then they lecture us about how to get mentally healthy. It's anathema. You wanna be mentally healthy? Don't have sex29:15 outside of marriage. Amen. Amen. You wanna feel bonded to somebody for life? Only have sex with them because you're you29:26 can't stop the chemicals from being chemicals. So if you want a healthy marriage, and if you want a relationship that you can trust, and if you want to relax,29:38 have sex inside of marriage between a man and a woman for life. Isn't that something? It's that simple. It's that simple.29:51 Don't let worldly distortions lead to unbiblical contortions. It's your life. It's your body. Treat it right, and it will reward you. Point number 2, marriage30:03 is for surrender. Marriage is for laying down your life even unto death. This is why when you come face me or 1 of our pastors to get married,30:15 we're gonna talk about your death. Do you promise to take this woman into your life and to have him to hold until Death. Death. And30:30 you, do you promise to love him until death? Blah. Like, why are we talking about death at marriage, at a wedding? Because marriage is supposed to kill you.30:44 This marriage is killing me. Amen. That's what it's supposed to do. The 2 shall become 1 flesh. Your marriage is surrendering. What are you surrendering? I'm surrendering my heart and my30:56 emotions. Nope. You're surrendering your body. Verse 4, what does it say? The wife does not have authority over her own body.31:07 Her husband. The husband does. Yes. And the wife has authority over the husband's body. Yes. Oh. Amen. So ladies,31:19 it's not your body. Not biblically. And men, it's not your body. It's my body. I get to do with what I want. No. It's not your body. First31:31 off, it's God's body. And if you get married, it's God's body and their body. Amen. And how you treat your body affects the body of the other person that you have covenanted together with. So your marriage will31:43 come together. You will, you know, consummate it. You'll create babies, and here's what's gonna happen. Write this down. Marriage is gonna take me places I may not want.31:55 Surrender comes standard. So if you're not interested in surrendering your body or will or dreams or passions to32:06 somebody else, don't get married. Amen. Because it's going to happen. Yes. Oh, if I32:18 only knew what this woman was going to do to me. Well, yeah. You now. You need to stick with it. I can't believe who I am now. Yeah. That's right. They're shaping you. You're shaping32:30 them. You're becoming different. You're not the person that married them. Now you're totally different, and you're different because of them. So that's how it works. That's life. You're gonna go places. You're gonna have32:40 children. You're gonna, you know, do things you don't want. Sometimes you're gonna do things you do want. You're gonna have to compromise almost every single day about every single thing, and you're gonna have to learn32:50 how to negotiate, and you're gonna have to learn how to fight, and you're gonna have to learn how to express yourself without killing each other, and you're gonna have to do what the Bible talks about all the time.32:58 Discipline the self to the glory of God. And the person you're married to is is the person that you have agreed to partner with to learn the process of33:10 surrendering your life. Write write this down. Wanna really bear this down. Marriage in marriage, I am not free to be the me I want to be.33:22 The Disney doctrine. I'm just gonna be the me I wanna be. I just want nobody to get in my way, on my dreams. I wanna chase. I want this career. I want this, you know, house. I'm gonna33:34 I'm gonna wait until my Instagram followers are 1900000.0. I'm gonna be, wonderful for you. Don't get married. Because marriage blows that33:46 to smithereens. Just ask J Lo. You know that 1 of the most popular Disney movies of all time is33:58 Frozen, which gave birth to 1 of the most popular songs of all time. Let it go. It's amazing how many people think that let it go is the theme of the movie, but it's not.34:10 The the song let it go is in the beginning of the movie where Elsa decides, I'm gonna let it go. And she literally says, I'm gonna be me. I'm gonna live my life. I'm gonna make this frozen mountain a paradise to34:22 self. She even says, no rules, no right, no wrong, just me. And our culture says, yes. Yes. And they sing it way too much.34:37 But the movie's main event is not when Elsa chooses to live for herself, but when her34:49 sister sacrifices herself for the sake of others. It's kind of crazy how that song becomes the theme35:01 in so many people's hearts about the movie when the movie's actually a picture of Christ who said, I am not gonna be the me I want to be. I'm gonna lay down35:13 me so that you can become the you God wants you to be. Got it? This35:24 is what marriage is though. Now, so he says in verse 7, to the married I give this charge, not I but the Lord. The wife should not separate from her husband. Don't divorce. If you're married,35:36 don't divorce. Do whatever you gotta do to not get divorced, and the husband shouldn't separate from the wife. Now, this is difficult. This is difficult because again, we think marriage should make me happy. Marriage35:47 should make me happy. Marriage should make me happy. Okay. Let me find that bible verse for you where it says that marriage should make you it's not there. So would it be great if we35:59 said instead of looking for something that we want out of marriage, what if we look for what God wanted out of marriage? Oh, good news. I got a verse about that. I got a verse in the Bible that talks about what God is36:10 looking for from your marriage. But you're not gonna like it because it's gonna deal with next week. Malachi chapter 2 15, did not he make them 1 with a portion of the spirit in their union? In other36:22 words, the Holy Spirit gets involved in this. And then it says this, and what was God seeking? What is God looking for out of your marriage? Not your happiness. Yes.36:33 Godly offspring. Yes. Your children are at stake. The next generation is at stake. It's not all about you. So if you're not36:44 interested in laying down your life regularly, negotiating daily, communicating when you don't wanna communicate, having sex when you don't wanna have sex, going on vacations where you36:56 would prefer not to go on vacation, don't get married. Amen. Amen. Just live as you want. Yes. But understand that singleness is not so you can live37:08 as you want. It's so that you can give yourself wholly to what God wants. And he says that in this in this chapter later. He says, if you're single, rejoice because now you can give all the energy that you would have37:18 spent on a spouse, now you can give it to the Lord, and the Lord can exponentially use you. Because marriage is for life. And this is such a hard thing that the disciples themselves who walked with Jesus,37:30 even they had a problem with it. Matthew chapter 19 verse 3, this conversation starts with the Pharisees coming up to Jesus, and they say, is it lawful to divorce a wife for any reason? And the Pharisees were very37:42 conservative Jews. So they believed what what 1 rabbi taught was only sexual morality gave you permission to to be divorced. The Sadducees were kinda like on the political left, the very liberal side of the aisle. And37:54 the Sadducees believed in Jesus' day that if the woman just looked at you wrong, you could divorce her. And and so Jesus is Jesus enters into this culture war in the first century, and and here's what he38:06 says. He doesn't take them back to the law. Verse 4, he says, have you not read from the beginning? I'm not going back to the law. I'm going back to paradise as God intended. God made them male.38:18 God made them female. 2 sexes made for each other. And he says, therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother, and hold fast to his life. The 2 shall become 1 flesh. They're no longer 2 but 1 flesh. Whatever God has38:28 put together, don't let man separate. Yeah. So the Pharisees like, I woah woah woah woah woah Jesus. We found the verses in the Bible. And it's in Deuteronomy chapter 24, and they38:40 quote it here. And it says, well, then why did Moses why did Moses verse 7. Why did Moses command that 1 could just give a certificate of divorce and send her away? And that's true. In38:52 Deuteronomy 24, God said to through Moses, if you're gonna divorce your wife, give her a certificate and send her away. And the reason why Jesus will say this in just a moment. But the reason what what was going on in39:02 Moses' day when they were wandering in the wilderness was that men were doing what was not right. They were taking second and third wives, and, they were then ignoring their first wife. And the39:14 first wife was bound legally to the man. She couldn't marry again even though he ignored her. So God, in grace for the woman, says, give her a certificate. Since you're not interested in her anymore, give her a paperShow more
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