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Where do people get their concept of marriage?
3. Mainly from our culture which, frankly, isn’t much help!
4. We need God’s perspective because He is the One who created marriage and knows what it means to honor it.
5. God gave us the Bible so that we may have insight into His heart about marriage and about divorce as well.
6. Tonight, we will discover what it means to be One in marriage as we study the words of Jesus from Matthew 19:1-12.

Matthew 19:1-12

Context
1. In Matthew 19 were told that Jesus left the Sea of Galilee and headed south to Judea, east of the Jordan River.
2. Huge crowds followed Him, and Jesus healed all who came to Him.
3. While there, some Pharisees sought to test Him. They challenged Jesus to enter a raging debate that divided the religious leaders as well as the nation of Israel. Their question involved the topic of divorce.
4. Basically, there were two leading rabbis, Shammai and Hillel, who held opposing views on divorce.
5. The debate centered on the proper interpretation of Deuteronomy 24:1-4 where Moses gave instruction about divorce.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4, When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

6. The battle lines were drawn around the interpretation and application of the word indecency, also translated uncleanness.
7. Rabbi Shammai taught that divorce was permissible only in the event of adultery.
8. Rabbi Hillel held a very liberal view and taught that a man was permitted to divorce his wife for any reason at all. In other words, if a man’s wife made his coffee too strong, or burnt his toast, or didn’t please him the way he wanted to be pleased, it was grounds for divorce.
9. So, the Pharisees presented the debate to Jesus, hoping He would alienate Himself by taking one side.
a. If Jesus chose the extremely liberal interpretation, He would be accused of not taking God’s Word seriously.
b. If Jesus chose the conservative view, He risked losing His popularity with the people.
10. But Jesus did not take the bait. Instead of talking about divorce, He talked about God’s original purpose for marriage.

I. The Two Shall Become One

• Notice how Jesus literally brought the Pharisees back to the beginning when He quoted from Genesis, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, and said, ‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH’?” (4-5)
• The idea of one flesh clearly suggests the beauty of sexual intimacy between a man and a woman in the context of holy matrimony.
• But the Bible makes it clear that there is more to oneness, such as the oneness of soul and spirit.
• That’s why the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth to not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. (2 Corinthians 6:14)
• According to the Bible, there are four purposes for marriage:
o Continuation of the human race – “Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28).
o Companionship and enjoyment – “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18).
o Protection against sexual immorality – “Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body” (1 Corinthians 6:18).

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