PT-1 "Intro into "Divorce and Remarriage" (Matt. 5:31-32)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/23/2020 9:44 AM

 

My Worship Time                                          Focus: PT-1 Intro into “Divorce and Remarriage”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matt. 5:31-32

 

            Message of the verses:  “31 "It was said, ’WHOEVER SENDS HIS WIFE AWAY, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE’; 32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

 

            There is a lot of misunderstanding about divorce and then remarriage in our culture today, and that is not because it is not clear in the Word of God, but by the fact that sin has clouded men’s minds to the straightforward simplicity of what God has to say.  The problem is that when people read God’s Word through the lenses of their own preconceptions or carnal dispositions, a confused and perplexing picture is the only possible outcome, however the confusion is not with God but with man.

 

            John MacArthur writes “British physician David Graham Cooper in his book The Death of the Family (New York: Pantheon, 1970) suggests the best thing society could do is to abolish the family altogether.  He claims it is the primary conditioning device for a Western imperialistic world view.  An advocate of women’s liberation, Kate Millet, maintains in her book Sexual Politics (New York: 1970; Ballantine, 1978) that ‘the family unit must go because it is the family that has oppressed and enslaved women.’  City after city and even some states are passing legislation that grants increasing rights to homosexuals.  From every side the family is being directly attacked or indirectly undermined.

 

            Yet the famous Harvard Medical School Psychiatrist Armand Nicoli says that

 

‘certain trends prevalent today will incapacitate the family, destroy its integrity, and cause its members to suffer such crippling emotional conflicts that they will become an intolerable burden to society.  If any one factor influences the character development and emotional stability of an individual, it is the quality of the relationship he or she experiences as a child with both parents.  Conversely, if people suffering from severe nonorganic emotional illness have one experience in common, it is the absence of a parent through death, divorce, or some other cause.  A parent’s inaccessibility, either physically, emotionally, or both, can profoundly influence a child’s emotional health.’”

 

8/23/2020 10:01 AM