Christ teaches clearly that divorce is an accommodation to man’s sin that violates God’s original purpose for the intimate unity and permanence of the marriage bond (Gen. 2:24). He taught that God’s law allowed divorce only because of “hardness of heart” (Matt. 19:8).
Divorce is a complicated and controversial issue, yet it cannot be ignored. The nature of this topic should require us to approach it with a lot of grace.
Whether the actual act of divorce is a sin, every divorce is a product of sin. If there was no sin in the marriage relationship, divorce would not be needed. Surely Jesus knows our weaknesses and understands our needs.
From the beginning, God created marriage, and He blessed it. Genesis 2:24 says, “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.” Once a man and woman get married, they become one flesh.
Later in the Bible, Jesus tells us directly, “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate” (Matthew 19:6). This means that God does not want married couples to get divorced.
Title: IS DIVORCE A SIN?
– Dr. Olumide Emmanuel // Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo
Size: 37MB
Duration: 1:46:40
