Good morning and welcome in everybody. Today, we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture, but before we do that, I wanted to tell you a little story.
A few years ago, my family saw a dog that was for sale online. My children had been begging for one repetitively over the last few months so I decided to make the arrangements to drive over and pick it up. It was a really cute black lab puppy, and sat obediently on my daughter’s lap all the way back home. It seemed like a very friendly dog and developed a really good relationship with all of my children. But after a year or so, he started to get a little bit lonely, so I decided to pick up a female lab as a companion for him. We decided to call her Lucy, and would take each of them down to the lake whenever we went for a walk. But Lucy was pretty young, and tended to wander off into the woods occasionally, so I would tie her to Jack with a 6-ft piece of rope. This was to ensure that she would stay right by Jack’s side and never depart him.
This reminds me of the Christian Life.
Just like Lucy, wives need to stay close by their husband’s side, following them faithfully wherever they go, and never departing from them.
1 Corinthians 7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
A woman who has been baptized into the Christian faith, is forbidden from leaving their husband for any reason. The end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and when a woman walks off on her husband she displays hatred towards him, his authority, and the teachings of Christ Jesus. It doesn’t matter if he has sinned. It doesn’t matter if he’s a complete unbeliever, what matters is not departing from him for as long as you both shall live. If a woman cares at all about her own salvation, she must never leave him, out of faithfulness to God.
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.
When someone is treacherous, they are involved with the wicked works of betrayal and deception. A man places a lot of trust in a wife to abide in the marriage, and when she walks off on him, it is an act of betrayal, no different than what Judas did to the Lord. Both a husband and his wife might sin during their marriage, but the bond of Holy matrimony is never to be broken. As the Lord taught, it is not to be put asunder.
Mark 10:2-12 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. And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
A lot of the sins that are committed in a person’s life might be one time events, but when a wife departs her husband and then divorces him, she sins against him every single day. This is because there are no active signs of repentance in her heart. Jesus taught that unless you repent you shall perish, and women are certainly not exempt from that commandment.
Luke 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
God is a God of order, and women are to follow men, not the other way around. This is especially true in a marriage. Departing a husband is to not only sin against the commands of Christ, but defraud him of a sexual relationship with yourself, which is one of the main reasons why people get married in the first place. You become one flesh with each other, and to leave and defraud them of sexual relationships with yourself is an act of hatred, and is evil in the sight of God
1 Corinthians 7:3-5 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 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. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
When a woman departs her husband, numerous other sins can result because of her own foolishness. I call it the domino effect of sin.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Like I’ve always said, a woman who departs her husband is the same as a murderer. There is no difference because they are both sinful behavior that will reap the same consequences from God.
Galatians 6:7-8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
James 2:10-13 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Many women depart and divorce their husbands, thinking that they are going to receive mercy from God. But when they break a wedlock in such a manner, it is an unmerciful act of hatred that will be punished by God. Don’t ever leave your husband!
Ezekiel 16:38 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.
Marriage is a huge commitment, and you must never depart your husband’s side, just like the story of..
……Lucy and Jack
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