Good morning and welcome in today. Today we’re going to take a look at a passage of scripture but before we do that I wanted to tell you a little story.
Many years ago I had a job where I had to work late Into the night. I used to start at about 5 p.m. in the afternoon and worked until 1 a.m.
After work one warm summer evening I left work and headed for home, stopping briefly at the gas station to get a pop for the trip. I was so tired that I forgot to get gas while I was there. I grew way out in the sticks, and got about 13 miles before my car slowly stopped on a completely deserted highway because I had ran out of gas. I was very thankful there was a full moon that night so I could see as I locked up my car and started the long walk home.
It took me a little over an hour to get back to our homestead in the woods that night, and I hadn’t seen a single vehicle.
Exhausted I jumped into bed planning to bring a full gas can with me to get my car in the morning.
After breakfast, I caught a ride with someone from home out to my car on the highway only to find that the lock on the door had been broken and someone had taken everything inside.
Not only did they take my stereo and speakers but they took personal belongings like my Elementary School scrapbook that contained all my pictures from when I was a child. Someone had broken the lock and I was furious.
Furious means full of anger violent or intense. Did you know that at times our Lord Jesus Christ gets furious? Just as I was angry at someone breaking the lock on my car the Lord Jesus Christ gets angry with a woman who breaks the lock of marriage.
Ezekiel 16:38
38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
Wedlock is when a man and a woman are joined together as husband and wife in the Holy bond of marriage. Marriage is Gods heavenly lock that He does not want broken. What God has brought together he does not want put asunder or separated. To put asunder means to break it apart.
Matthew 19:6 – Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Just like a padlock, God doesn’t want wedlock to be broken. This is why I counsel women today to think about what they’re doing before they enter into the bond of marriage because if they break wedlock they anger the Lord Jesus Christ. Marriage is till death do us part not till when I decide to part. That is a philosophy of the world, not a professing Christian woman.
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.
The definition of treacherous is someone who is guilty of dishonesty or betrayal, and done something that is dangerous or hazardous to a close confidant. An example of treacherous is someone you thought was your friend who shares your secrets with everyone else and then turns on you.
A secret is something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others or kept from their knowledge or view. Its kept from public knowledge and private.
Remember that God is love so if you choose not to love your spouse through thick and thin you’ve turned away from what is divine, and His eternal commandment to love one another. Why do you think it angers God so much? Breaking wedlock means to divorce your spouse and no longer cling to them or love the one that you committed to when you got married.
Since the very beginning, God has always meant a man and a woman to remain by each other’s sides, and love one another as he commands. Breaking wedlock happens because somebody does not have love for their spouse anymore. It happens because of the hardness of the heart.
Matthew 19:8 – He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Marriage in the Christian realm is supposed to display to the entire world that true charity in Christ Jesus never fails.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 – And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Remember that this is a command of Jesus Christ. The wife is not to depart from her husband under any circumstances.
1 John 2:3 – And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Although this is a direct command from Christ it doesn’t mean that all women are going to obey him. People in their human nature are prone to disobey God.
Sometimes it doesn’t matter what He says, they will simply disregard his commands because they don’t love Him or the teachings of scripture. God is Not mocked because whatever you sow, that is what you will reap. It’s like the old saying, what goes around comes around.
Your body in marriage belongs to your spouse. That’s just one reason why separating is a sin in the eyes of Christ.
1 Corinthians 7:4 – The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
when you marry someone else you are in the bond of wedlock until death do you park. God truly hates divorce and is angered when wedlock is broken. He hates the putting away of the spouse. The reason why is because God is love and breaking wedlock violates everything that he is.
Malachi 2:16 – For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
My counsel to any married couples today, get filled up with the Holy Spirit and love and remain with your spouse.
Let’s think about those things for today, and Lord willing we’ll talk to you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye bye everybody.❤
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