Good morning and welcome in today. Today we’re going to take a look at some scripture from Jerimiah but before we do that I wanted to ask you a question.
Have you ever had a group of friends at school completely ditch you? Have you ever had a special pet abandon you and fail to come back home? Have you ever planned to go to prom with someone but they never showed up? It hurts doesn’t it. The same things happened to the Apostle Paul when his close companions in the faith abandoned him. Just like Lots wife, they loved the world more.
2 Tim 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
In a marriage a wife is not supposed to leave her husband’s side for any reason, just as a Christian is not to turn away from Christ. She decided to spend the rest of her life with him, and she is supposed to honor her commitment to her husband through thick and thin.
A woman was created as a helper for man, but how can she possibly help him when she leaves him? Can you imagine hiring a helper at a store, but after a while, they simply walk off the job? As an employer, how would that make you feel?
Jeremiah 3:20 – Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
This verse teaches that departing from your husband is treachery. Treachery is behavior that deceives or is not loyal to someone who trusts you. It is a betrayal of trust or treason.
In the church we are supposed to remain in a faithful relationship with Christ Jesus because it is just like a marriage. Wives are supposed to be faithful to their husbands in their marriage and respect them as you would Jesus.
Eph 5 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
If she departs a husband, she is in a state of rebellion, not only against her husband but the command of Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Take notice that this is a command of Christ Jesus. Those who love Jesus will keep His commands. Remember that the Bible teaches us God is love. For a wife to leave her husband is to reject everything that Christianity stands for.
God wants us to love one another, because this is the end of the Commandment. Love is more than just a hug or a kiss, it’s about committment. God wants us to be forgiving with each other in a marriage because He forgives us. Sometimes it can be a very bumpy ride but we just dont jump out of the car when the rough times come.
There are no perfect marriages no matter what some may say. Lasting marriages are kept together through apologies and forgiveness from time to time. In the church we are not perfect Christians from day one either. This is why we have Holy Communion, so that we can come boldly to the throne of grace in time of need.
When a wife departs from her husband she is turning away from Christs command to love one another. We are suppose to love others in our community, to love our neighbors as ourselves but most of all, we are to love the one who has become a part of our body and flesh, our spouse. That is a closer relationship then you will ever share with anybody on the face of the Earth.
To make a marriage work you’re going to have to be that forgiving with each other, as we are in the church. A lasting marriage requires work and committment rather than abandonment. It’s learning to overlook the faults of your spouse and focus on the good.
When you depart it means to completely turn your back on something or to turn away.
Even though each of us have our own faults and mistakes, the scriptures teach us that God will not leave us nor forsake us. For a wife to leave and forsake her husband is to go exactly the opposite direction of what God does for each of us every day.
That’s why I’ve always said that if you are planning to get married, you really need to think about what you’re doing before you do it. You’re making a commitment to the other person to stay by their side till death do us part. It’s just like becoming a Christian. There’s no turning back, no turning back.
Is there a perfect marriage, no. Are there going to be mistakes made during a marriage, certainly, but we learn in the church through the teachings of Jesus Christ to be forgiving one with each other so that we can move on and grow into lasting relationships.
After you get married you begin spending a lot of time with each other and learn things in the first year of marriage that you probably never even knew about the other person when you were dating, plus the fact that living with someone in such close proximity can present numerous issues as well. As husband and wife you become roommates for life.
A wife is supposed to stay by a husband’s side through sickness or health better or worse for richer or poorer. Whatever you go through in life or the issues that may come up between yourselves, the wife is supposed to stand by her husbands side and never to leave. It shows her commitment to both Jesus and her husband.
Leaving a spouse especially when children are involved shows a lack of love and committment. Granted, this happens all the time out in the world, but it’s not supposed to happen if people are a part of the Christian church and profess Jesus Christ as their Lord. There are millions of other Christians who believe the exact same things that I do.
When a woman departs from her husband she turns away from the commands of Christ and steps onto the wide road of sin. Just as we are reconciled to God through forgiveness when we come home to the Lord Jesus Christ, the wife needs to come back home to her husband and be reconciled unto him. Ultimately divorce negates this entire process, and leaves a wife stranded in a world of perpetual sin.
When a woman departs from her husband she abandons her duties to Him and to the The Lord. She must turn back to the one that she has left, just as people need to return to Jesus.
Salvation and grace awaits them.
Let’s think about those things for today and Lord willing I’ll talk to you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye-bye everybody.♥️
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