During my childhood, some of the most favorite things that I used to play with were magnets. I had tiny magnets from a toy magnet set that I had received as a gift, and I would connect them all together to form all sorts of designs and creations. I also had some larger, stronger magnets and I would hold onto the magnet and place it underneath the kitchen table at home, and then find something metal, such as a spoon, and place it onto the top of the table. Wherever I moved the magnet while it was under the table, the spoon would follow too, like an invisible hand was making it move.
And then I had a really, really big set of magnets. I don’t know where they came from, but they had an incredibly strong magnetic force. If you held one of these up to the metal door of a building they would literally pull you towards it, and once they attached to that door it was nearly impossible for me to pry them off. In fact, one day I had set those two magnets on the ground just a little bit too close to each other and quick as a blink they had snapped to each other and I was never able to separate them again, their bond was too strong.
This example shows how some things, which when joined together, just stay together. Just like how a marriage between a man and a woman should be, and remain.
It is the bond of love that causes a man and a woman to enter into marriage. Marriage is an institution that God created all the way back in the Garden of Eden, when God created Adam and Eve. But what some people do not seem to understand is that God doesn’t want a husband and wife to become separated by divorce. This is the subject of a conversation between Jesus and some Pharisees in Mark 10.
Mark 10:1-9 “And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
What Jesus was explaining is that it was because of the hardness of the heart that Moses had suffered a letter of divorcement to be written. Because of the lack of love in the heart. But divorce is not what God created; He created marriage. He created love.
Because God created a marriage to join two people together (man and a woman) in a lifelong commitment, why would it seem right to break up what God has created? It’s just not right to do. That’s not love.
If it was somehow possible, do you think it would be a wise idea to move the Earth 1,000 miles closer to or further away from the sun? I can assure you that that would be a terrible idea. God in His wisdom created everything according to His plan, including the institution of marriage.
These are words from the Lord Himself. “What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” Yet many people today who claim to be Christian seem to disregard this. Let no man put asunder. It is prohibited.
What is the main reason why divorce happens? A lack of what? Love. That is really what it comes down to. A lack of love. Are not we called to love one another? Isn’t it what Jesus said was the greatest commandments, to love God with your heart, soul, and mind, and your neighbor as yourself? Then how can one claim to love Christ if they cannot even love their spouse enough to stay with them?
Those who don’t believe in the teachings of our Lord, sure, they might divorce each other out in the world, but that is not what God wants. Divorce is wrong. Plain. And. Simple. Just don’t do it. Just like those magnets, a marriage needs to stick together until the end. Do you love Christ? Then hear His words. Let no man put asunder.
In Christ
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 