In Matthew 19 verses 1-12, we see Jesus teaching clearly about marriage and divorce, confronting the Pharisees’ focus on legal loopholes. He redirects them to God’s original design, showing that marriage was meant to be a lifelong union. Divorce, he explains, was permitted because of hardness of heart, not because it reflected God’s true intent. Christ calls believers back to the beginning, restoring an eternal perspective on covenant and faithfulness.
What Matthew 19 Verses 1-12 Teaches
- Marriage is God’s original covenant design
- Divorce was permitted because of hardness of heart
- Legal loopholes miss the heart of the law
- Jesus restores God’s original intent
- Faithfulness reflects eternal perspective
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Matthew 19 Verses 1-12
Okay, if you have looked over your notes, you see what an awful task I have to do tonight. We’re going to be ministering what Jesus said about divorce. And I have not looked forward to tonight. It’s been tough. Whenever a minister has to minister on this subject, you get uneasy, you’re confidence waivers because people that you love so much and you care so much about have suffered this thing. And you don’t want to hurt anybody, but yet at the same time you want to say something that will help others so that they won’t have to face this tragedy that we’ve called divorce. So I ask your prayers tonight and I ask your help. It’s tough. It really is tough. You say, I’ll be accountable for all that I say. And I’m just as accountable to those who I won’t say anything to about divorce. I’ll be just as accountable to those that I haven’t said anything to about it that I should have. I think you know what I’m trying to say. This is an area that I have to touch. This is an area that I have to minister on. And it’s difficult. And I know that you know that it is. And you know that I love you and I’m not going to do a thing to hurt anybody. But it’s tough. Are you with me tonight? Okay.
Introduction. Divorce. What an awful and fearful and delicate topic for a teacher to have to teach about. Yet today’s lesson will throw us headfirst into this avoided topic. How many has ever had teaching on divorce? I mean, really end up teaching one. It’s avoided. And the reason that it’s avoided is because it’s so delicate. And it’s tough. I called you today and I said you to pray for me. I said, I’m really battling this and I really, I don’t want you to talk about it. I don’t want to touch it. I’m going to try to call T-Boat. T-Boat was the busy. He couldn’t talk to me. I was going to say T-Boat helped me. A lot of times when I need something extra little bump or something, I’ll talk to T-Boat and he’ll give me that little something that I need. But anyway, I got into it. But it’s an avoided topic. The Pharisees of Christ Day and of our day are more interested in the escape rather than the overcoming. Divorce is no exception. How can I get out of this marriage is their mentality rather than seeking to cleave to the marriage (Genesis 2:24)? Fornication is the only reason to terminate a marriage, not adultery (Matthew 19:9). Fornication is the only reason to terminate a marriage, not adultery. Now, hang with me and you’ll see what I’m saying, not adultery, but fornication. The saddest part of this lesson is even Christ’s disciples had been affected by the present mentality of the Pharisees and say, if that is true and I cannot get a divorce for any reason, then it is better not to marry. Jesus said, there are, that should be are. They were looking at an excuse to get a divorce rather than trying to find the situation to maintain the marriage and cleave to it (Genesis 2:24). Now, the outline of Matthew chapter 19, first part, which is today’s lesson, teaching about divorce, verses 1 through 12. Second section is about the children, verse 13 through 15, and I was hoping that’s where we would get into today, but we’re not. And then the third one is the tragedy of Maman, verse 16 through 30.
Before I go into this, I want you, if you will, to turn over with me, on the way to page 271 of your notes, and I want to read what I’ve written here, and then I want to look at a scripture in Matthew 19 out of your Bible, and then we’ll go from there. At the bottom of 271, number 1, under point C, number 1, Jesus does not avoid the question (Matthew 19:3–9), and sometimes I do. Most ministers hate this question because there is no easy answer. To justify divorce is incorrect theology (Matthew 19:6; Malachi 2:16). We love our people, and do not, and it should be want to hurt anyone. In verse 10, the disciples come and further question the Lord concerning marriage and divorce (Matthew 19:10). What we’re thinking, as we will see, had been affected by the Pharisees’ doctrine (Matthew 19:3). A point I want to inject here is that Jesus loved these men and appreciated their willingness to sacrifice for the ministry (John 13:1). Yet surely some had experienced or would experience marital problems. Some of you have experienced divorce. I love you and appreciate you and your willingness to sacrifice for this ministry, which he called us to (John 15:16). I know more desire to hurt you than Jesus desired to hurt his disciples (John 11:35). It’s a tough question, with a tough answer. But please let us not avoid the question and learn so we can help ourselves and others (2 Timothy 2:15). Are you hearing my heart? I want you to hear my heart. I want you to see where I’m coming from. And then if you’ll open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 19 (Matthew 19:1–12), I’m trying to lay something good so that when we get into this thing that I won’t hurt anyone. Matthew 19, I want to read verse 11 (Matthew 19:11). After he’s spoke his peace about the question the Pharisees will ask him, he says, but he said unto them, all men cannot receive this saying, save them whom it is given (Matthew 19:11).
Matthew 19:11
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
Tonight you will be given some understanding that you haven’t had before. And as Judy and I was talking today this afternoon about this subject, we are only required to really walk in what understanding that we have. Today you’ll have understanding that you haven’t had until now. That’s why I ask you to start with who’s had teaching on this subject and nobody has. It’s avoided. Should we avoid it? Should we get this into us so that we can prepare the next generation so that they may not have to suffer some of the things that we’ve suffered? Somewhere along the line we have got to obtain the mentality that Jesus had concerning divorce. And that’s what I’m wanting to try to input into this today is coming to a place where it will have an understanding of divorce in a way that we’ve never understood it before. And I heard because some of you have suffered this thing and one is so strange because in one aspect I’m so glad that you did because I love your mate, but in another aspect I hate it because of what you’ve had to suffer, does that make sense? And so you get confused and your emotions get mixed up in this thing and you don’t know where you’re at, ain’t it? And so all I can do is bring forth what Jesus said (Matthew 19:3–9) and keep me out of it. So let’s try to do that. Verse 1 through verse 12 (Matthew 19:1–12). Verse 1 and 2 says, and it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these things he departed from Galilee and came into the coast of Judea beyond Jordan and great multitudes followed him and he healed them there.
Matthew 19:1–2
1 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;
2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.
Up into this time we’ve been talking about the retirement ministry. Remember we talked about Jesus going on vacation? We’ve been talking about the retirement ministry now and now he’s coming out of the retirement ministry and he’s leaving the areas of Galilee and on the other side of Jordan and now he’s coming back into Judea and the crowds come again and that’s the emphasis there is the multitudes come back again but somebody else comes other than the multitudes. Here comes the Pharisees and then in verse 2 it says, verse 3, and the Pharisees also came into him, tempting him and saying unto him, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause (Matthew 19:3)?
Matthew 19:3
3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
The Pharisees come and they tempt him and that word tempt really means test and really what it is is it’s not really a tempt or a test so much as it’s a trick. The Pharisees come and they lay out a trap for him and the word tempt there means to test, it means to endeavor, it means to scrutinize and tie discipline but it’s actually a trap (Matthew 19:3). The Pharisees really interested in what Jesus had to say about divorce. What they wanted to do was cause some dissension in some division (Matthew 22:15). They wanted to come and we’re going to read it in just a second because I’ve quoted a lot out of books and things that I have and because I want to have an understanding when we leave here about this topic but the Pharisees came and what they came for was to cause dissensions and divisions. There were those people who surely had suffered divorce that were under the sound of Jesus voice, just as there are people who have suffered divorce that are under the sound of Jesus. And had Jesus come down hard on getting a divorce and leaving and separating and terminating a marriage then those people would have been offended. Plus there was a school of thought that would have gotten offended because they taught a very legalistic, a very liberal school of thought about divorce is that for any reason you can get a divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1). And there was another group of people that looked at divorce as something awful and a tragedy which it is but yet still a real thing (Malachi 2:16). There was another school of people that looked at it and taught it as the most legalistic in a most legalistic way and had he said, yeah you can get a divorce for any cause then he would have gotten these people against him. And you see it’s the same way today. This is why it’s avoided. This is why this topic and this subject is so delicate and so avoided is so that you won’t get people upset with you. And I promise you I don’t want people upset with me. Now I know sometimes you wondered he must want people upset with him but really I don’t. But this is such a delicate, delicate thing and they knew this and they came to the Lord and they say, okay what do you think about divorce? And I’ve had people to do me that way. And they really didn’t care what I really thought or to glean from what I felt or knew what they really wanted to do was cause some problems. And that’s what these Pharisees can. They came to tempt him or to test him or really to trap him (Matthew 19:3). This tempting was actually a type of trap. How does one answer either way and not offend someone? If he said no, he would offend some specifically those who have suffered divorce. If he said yes, he opens a door to license. And know what the question is. Can you get a divorce for every cause? Now I want to read this, let’s look first though at Deuteronomy chapter 24. Let’s see where these Pharisees are coming from. This is from the law of Moses, Deuteronomy 24 and 1 (Deuteronomy 24:1).
Deuteronomy 24:1
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
And the entire thing is based upon the interpretation or the definition of one Hebrew word. That’s where the entire schism comes from. 24-1 (Deuteronomy 24:1). And it says when a man has taken a wife and married her and it comes to pass that she find no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her. Then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it her hand in her hand and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
Now that’s what the entire schism is about. And what the Pharisees capitalize on is that first part, they come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes. The NIV Bible says that she becomes displeasing. But the word means graciousness or beauty. All of a sudden she’s lost her graciousness and her beauty to him. Well then according to this interpretation, then you can get rid of her. And this is what the Pharisees are coming and saying (Matthew 19:3). And that word, some uncleanness, goes further than the favor, the word uncleanness. If you have a margin, it’s a matter of nakedness. And the word actually means nudity or blimish. So if he can find any reason that he doesn’t like her anymore, then he can get rid of her. Now that’s what the Pharisees are coming and they’re questioning Jesus about (Matthew 19:3). And this is the basis of their doctrine. This is the basis of the way they feel. And this is the basis of our basic doctrine today about divorce. I mean people get divorced for some of the silliest reasons. And really it’s humanistic. It’s very well. We’ll get into that in just a second.
Now if you will on page 270, the bottom of the page of your notes. I want to read this out of the commentary that I have on New Testament commentary by Hendrickson. And it will help us get an insight to the situation of the day. And also you can kind of see how it so fits in our situation of our day. Answered either way, so the Pharisees thought, Jesus would be in difficulty (Matthew 19:3). The situation was as follows. Among the Jews there was a difference of opinion as to what Moses had taught with the respect to the problem of divorce. He had written, when a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes, he has found Aroth de Blas (Deuteronomy 24:1). Now that’s that word there, that favor, okay, of Aroth de Blas in her. And he writes her a bill of divorcement (Deuteronomy 24:1). But what is meant by Aroth de Blas? Does it mean a scandalous thing? Others guess? Others guesses are some indecency. Something improper, improper behavior, something offensive, a shameful thing, and other things. According to Shemiah and his followers, the references was to unchastity or adultery. According to Hiliah and his disciples, the meaning was far broader. They emphasized the words, if then she finds no favor in his eyes. And accordingly would allow divorce for the flimsiest reasons, so that the husband could reject his wife if she accidentally served him food that had been slightly burned. Aroth at home, she talks aloud that the neighbors could hear her. She stayed on the phone too long, she didn’t vacuum the carpet. I mean this is where the Pharisees are coming from (Matthew 19:3). If Jesus endorsed the more strict interpretation favored by Shemiah, he would be displacing the followers of Hiliah. However, there seemed to have been very many who agreed with Hiliah’s liberal opinion. There’s very many that agree with it today, isn’t it? Even the disciples may have shared this view, and they did. We’ll see verse 10 after one (Matthew 19:10). Besides that the Lord sided with Shemiah, the Pharisees might have accused him, though not just of being inconsistent when he nevertheless consorted with sinners and ate with them (Matthew 9:10–11). On the other hand, if Jesus endorsed the lax, anything will do as ground for divorce interpretation. What would the disciples of Shemiah think of him? Would not the more serious, consensuous people charge him with tolerating moral looseness? And what would the female part of the population think of him? In other words, those that had suffered a divorce.
So that’s from the New Testament commentary by Hendrickson on page 713 and 714. But the point that I’m wanting us to get here is that any time ministry is questioned concerning divorce, it becomes a very delicate situation (Matthew 19:3). It was then and it is now. But I believe that tonight we’re going to learn some things and we’re going to see some things.
Because the situation that they were facing is the same situation that we’re facing. And there needs to be just a clear understanding of what Jesus said (Matthew 19:4–9). And no matter what our past has been or our understanding has been concerning the marital relationship, no matter what it has been, we need to get a new perspective and a new vision and get in line with his word from this day on forward and line up with that (Romans 12:2). Do you agree with that? That’s the whole purpose of it. You say, I don’t care what your past has been. What I want to know is where you’re going and I want to know that you have the right thing and the right understanding and that you can teach your children the right things and the right understanding (Deuteronomy 6:6–7). If I can get some right things into you, it’ll save me a whole lot of counseling time. And I won’t have to be ministering to, most of my counseling I do right here. And then you can minister to your children or to other people. You can open the Word of God to them. That’s what these notes are for. You’ll have something now that you can take and show somebody and say, hey, here’s what the Word of God says.
Now he says, is it okay in every cause to give the wife the writing of divorcement, every cause, the word every past, it means all, any, every, the whole, anything (Matthew 19:3). And today’s English Bible is for any reason he wishes, NIV, any reason Phillips Bible says any grounds, Jerusalem Bible says any pretext, revised Bible says any cause, the new English Bible says any and every ground. You see, their end time mentality was in the wrong direction. The thrust of their thinking was in the wrong direction. They were looking at an excuse to get a divorce rather than trying to find the situation to maintain the marriage and cleave to the marriage (Genesis 2:24). Their end to our thrust was trying to find a reason to get out of the marriage rather than to stay in it and make it work and cleave to it (Genesis 2:24). Divorce is a last resort (Matthew 19:8). And when we get married, that shouldn’t even be in our mentality, in our thinking. But it’s so sad to me today that the mentality that are in people who, people’s mind that they get married today, well, if it doesn’t work, we’ll get a divorce. That shouldn’t ever enter in. The question is, can a man or a woman in from Mark 19, now Matthew 19 is dealing with a man, but in Mark, Mark deals with it with a woman also, but that’s Mark 10, not Mark 19, Mark 10, 11 and 12 (Mark 10:11–12).
Mark 10:11–12
11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
When a man get out of a marriage, simply because he or she can find some reason. Now what is the answer to that question? Snow. I mean, I’ve got it there for you, but you just need to know that. There is no reason to get out of a marriage and it should work out (Matthew 19:6).
Now we’ve read a great deal of this bottom of 271, but let’s read the scripture verses 45 and 6. And he answered in the Senate of them, have you not read? This is what Jesus answered to them, have you not read? That he which made them at the beginning, say them at the beginning, that is the key point in this whole context, because he’s going to say it again at the end of it. The beginning (Matthew 19:4; Matthew 19:8). He that made them at the beginning, made them male and female (Genesis 1:27) and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh (Genesis 2:24). Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore, God have joined together, let no man put a sunder (Matthew 19:6).
Matthew 19:4–6
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Who can tell me what where he’s quoting from? Genesis, Genesis chapter 2,
Genesis 2:24–25
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
and once you turn there, we’re going to be reading this. What Jesus does is he doesn’t even mention Moses. He knew that that was where they were coming from. He knew that was where they were achieving their doctrine from and their philosophy from. He goes back beyond Moses, and he goes back to what the Lord God said. He goes back to the beginning (Genesis 2:24). He goes back to the eternal (Genesis 2:24). He goes all the way back, and he says, don’t you know what it said in the beginning (Genesis 2:24) or at the eternal (Genesis 2:24)? Don’t you know? Don’t you understand the purposes of God? The purposes of God is what Jesus is interested in. He says at the beginning (Matthew 19:4), the Pharisees built their entire doctrine on Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 24:1). But Jesus went past that, he bypassed to Moses. He went beyond Moses. He went to a greater authority than Moses. He went to the Father to get his doctrine. Moses doctrine must align with God’s doctrine. Do you think that’s right? The Lord Jesus Christ doctrine must align with the Father’s doctrine (John 5:19).
One verse doctrine is dangerous. Has anybody ever faced somebody that had a one verse doctrine? A one verse doctrine is dangerous. You need to be able, whenever you’re showing someone something out of the Word of God, to give them more than one verse (2 Corinthians 13:1). And when you’re looking at something and you’re trying to grasp something out of the Word of God, you need to make sure that you’ve got several verses that back up your chain of thought. Because we are very prone to read something and see something in the Word that really wets our appetites and sounds good and tastes good, so we’ll grab it. And that’s what these Pharisees had done (Matthew 19:3). They didn’t want to stay the rest of their life with one woman. That’s the bottom line. And so when they got tired of one, they’d get them another one (Deuteronomy 24:1). And that’s what’s happening today. We’re at a place in society where we’re fed sex off the television, we’re fed sex off the magazines, we’re fed sex and everything we go, they can’t sell a Jeep without showing a naked woman on it. We’re fed these things, we’re fed these things, and so we get tired of one one another. And this is where the society is, so they grab a scripture that will justify what they want (Deuteronomy 24:1). This is 218-25, let’s try to get the fall of what Jesus is trying to say here from the beginning (Genesis 2:24). We know Adam and chapter 1, we’re not going back there, chapter 1, verse 27, 26, 27 and 28. Adam is created. Now when Adam was created, was he created male or was he created female? When Adam was created, was he created male or was he created female? Okay, there’s that, so he was created both. He was in the image of God, but male and female made he them. He was a plurality being, but he was Adam. And he had male and female qualities, male, I can’t get into all of that, that’s not what I’m emphasizing, I just want to give you that and you know that it’s true because we’re going to read in 20 and chapter 2 where the female aspect of Adam is removed and separated from him.
And chapter 2 verse 18, and the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him and help me for him. And out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every file of the air and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them and what so ever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle and to the foul of the air and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found to help me for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. Now the word rib, you need to look on page 72 of your notes. Number three there, I have rib. Rib means it’s a door that is a side, that is a quarter, that is a timber, a plank, that is a flooring, it’s translated chamber, corner, leaf, or side chamber. It really doesn’t mean rib at all. It really means a part of Adam, a door of Adam, an aspect of Adam, a quarter of Adam, a part of Adam. God took a part of Adam and he took it in the verse 22. And the rib which the Lord God or the part that which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man. She made, that means build it, aren’t you glad he built it, you want it? And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. She’ll a man leave his father and his mother and she’ll cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh (Genesis 2:24) and they were both naked, the man in his wife and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2:18–25
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
I’ve always wanted to deal with 25, I don’t guess I ever really have, but it deals with sex and that’s a good time to talk about that a little bit. Do we understand that sex is holy, it’s not something ugly and nasty unless we take it and make it something ugly and nasty (Hebrews 13:4). Unless we perverted it, it was created beautiful (Genesis 1:31). We shouldn’t be ashamed of it when it’s in its right place. No time you should be ashamed of it is when it’s not in its right place. They were both that way, the man in his wife and they weren’t ashamed (Genesis 2:25). It’s an intimate relationship, it speaks of a totality of nothing was covered up. They were totally opened to each other and it should be the type of relationship that we have with Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:31–32), that’s what I really wanted to speak to us about. Down somewhere inside of each one of us, there should be a place where we’re not ashamed of him (Romans 10:11). There should be a nakedness inside of us that he can totally see us and that we have a relationship in a very, very intimate way (Hebrews 4:13). But let’s get back to my thought here and what I’ve got to cover. Adam was created in God’s image, was he not (Genesis 1:27), but he was created with the divine purpose of becoming both male and female. He was created, he was created both male and female (Genesis 1:27), but he was created in the divine purpose of being two, of being male and female and thus God separated those entities. And then in verse 24 we see that man is singular, shall cleave to his wife which is singular. They shall be singular flesh or one flesh (Genesis 2:24). The divine purpose is one woman, he brought to one man and the two then become one again (Genesis 2:24). That word again is the whole trick. If you say that, then you got what I’m trying to get to us.
I believe that the scriptures teach and we’ll see further when Jesus, when we get into some of Jesus’ thoughts, I believe that this woman was created for me and that I was created for this woman and that we become, we can create life when we come together (Genesis 1:28). That’s the only time, I can’t create it by myself. When are we the most like God? Well we can create life and you have to come together (Genesis 1:28). So the purposes of God was to replenish the earth, to take dominion over it (Genesis 1:28). And to do this, he made his man but he was lonely, he didn’t have anybody to comfort him and to talk with him and to be a help meat to him (Genesis 2:18). The purpose of a woman is to be the help meat to the man, to help him, to comfort him, to console him (Genesis 2:18). Adam didn’t have that, all the animals had it, Adam didn’t have it. So God fixed it and he took that part and he made it woman and he brought them together (Genesis 2:22). So they could be one together, one again (Genesis 2:24). Jesus says that in the beginning, the whole purpose of God in the beginning was that one man had one woman and they come together and be a God (Matthew 19:4–6). He says in the beginning, that’s the way it was (Matthew 19:8). The purpose of marriage is to become one again. That’s the whole purpose of marriage (Genesis 2:24).
It seems to me that God’s divine purpose concerning marriage is that every man who is to marry, and notice how I’m saying that because we’ve got to deal with the unix here in a minute, every man who is to marry has a woman created for that man which he, God, will join together (Matthew 19:6). And every woman who is to marry has a man created to be joined to. They are divinely designed for each other (Genesis 2:18). You know, I wrote that and I didn’t cry outwardly but inwardly I did. I just don’t know who else could put up with me. I really don’t and I’m serious. I mean, I look back, I look back at some of the bummers I’ve pulled and she’s put up with me and she’s such a comfort to me and she’s such a help mate to me (Genesis 2:18). And I believe, I really do, I believe God created her for me. And then he says this, what, therefore God have joined together, let no man put a son there (Matthew 19:6). Now this is what Wycliffe Bible commentary says, since God’s purpose called for man and wife to be one flesh, any disruption of marriage violates God’s will, can you see that? Can you who have suffered divorce see that? Can you see that the enemy got in there (Ephesians 6:11)? Can you see that your flesh got in there (Galatians 5:19–21)? Can you see that something got in there that violated God’s will? Can you? The living Bible says that no man may divorce what God has joined together. Today’s English Bible says, man must not separate then what God has joined together. The NIV Bible says, therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate. Phillips translation says, no man therefore must separate what God has joined together. And Jerusalem Bible says, so then what God has united, man must not divide (Matthew 19:6). Do you see that God’s purpose is violated. His will is being messed with when divorce occurs (Malachi 2:16).
Now let me go and put this in here because I need to. In this entire context of chapter 19, nowhere does an individual lose his salvation because of divorce. No way does an individual get even kicked out of the kingdom because of divorce. So I want to make sure that we understand that. But at the same time I want us to get the principle that without proper teaching and understanding of the marriage will never be able to impart this into a generation that can overcome divorce (Deuteronomy 6:6–7). But Jesus did not so agree, so regard marriage, namely, this is from Hendrixen again, that Jesus did indeed, that Jesus did indeed so regard marriage, namely as an undesirable union, a union until death, a union until death parts the two, a definitely divine institution that must not be tampered with (Romans 7:2). And I don’t know how. Only way I know to do it is to begin teachings such as this one, where we’re honest, but yet try to be as easy as possible. But somehow, no matter what we have faced or been taught, we must all come to this point of view. Marriage is created to last an eternal union (Matthew 19:6). Without doubt, this is how the Lord Jesus used marriage and so must we, excuse me. Marriage is to be uninterrupted until death do us part (Romans 7:2). But therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put a sunder (Matthew 19:6).
You still love me? I want you to know this is hurting me because I know that it’s hurting some of you, and you’re saying, my, where am I standing? Where am I at? Well, I’m going to touch that. I’m going to get that in a second. Point C. Now, I literally wrote, I might skip this on my notes right here. But I don’t want to skip, but I want to go on with it. Those who decide to marry must be taught that it is a divine institution which brings two people into an eternal union. Not only sexual (Genesis 2:24).
If you only get married for sex, you’re getting married in a humanistic society. If you’re only understanding of marriage’s sexual gratification, then your marriage will not last. What we have to understand and begin to teach people and to teach our young people is that not only are they marrying in the natural, she’s not, it’s not only marrying in the natural, we just didn’t marry on earth. We married in the spiritual. We married in heaven. If we come together holy, body soul spirit, first that’s long in 523 (1 Thessalonians 5:23), if we do that, body soul spirit, the body in the soul can unite on earth, but where’s that spiritual union going to be? It’s a heavenly union. It’s a spiritual union. It’s something not of this earth. And what Jesus is saying here is you can tear up that paper. You can tear up that paper that’s on earth. But what are you going to do about the one that’s in heaven? Marriage is not only recorded on earth, it is recorded in heaven (Matthew 19:6). If we are body soul in spirit, then our body and soul unite in the earth realm, but the spirit and the heavenly are the spiritual realm. The divorce paper on earth can be a note. But what about the one which really counts? The one in heaven? What God has joined together, man cannot put a sentence (Matthew 19:6).
Now what that’s probably making some of you think, am I still married to that person that I was married to? I hope not. I hope you had the right reason for the divorce. That’s what I’m hoping. We’re going to touch that in just a second. They say unto him the disciples, no, I’m still in Pharisees, aren’t I? The Pharisees still say, they say unto him, why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement and to put her away (Matthew 19:7)?
Matthew 19:7
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
Notice now the way the Pharisee mind works is they’re still wanting to emphasize the legalities of divorce. Jesus wants to emphasize the eternalness of marriage. The Pharisee and each of us at times want to find a way out of our marriage. Well, how many in here have never wanted to get out of your marriage? That’s the Pharisee in us. That’s that earth person, that’s that person that you want to kill and destroy. But the Christ in you (Colossians 1:27), the Christ in you, sees the eternalness of that marriage and sees it going forever and forever. That’s why you’re still there. The Pharisee emphasizes the termination, the Christ emphasizes the eternalness.
So they said, Jesus, you must be wrong. Moses said it’s all right. Jesus said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives (Matthew 19:8). But where does he go back to again from the beginning? It was not so (Matthew 19:8).
Matthew 19:8
8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
His whole grounds is built on Genesis chapter 127
Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
and chapter 218
Genesis 2:18
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
through the end of that chapter (Genesis 2:24–25). His whole emphasis, the Lord Jesus Christ, his emphasis is in the book of Genesis chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 2, concerning marriage (Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:24). He says, because of the hardness of your heart, hardness means a hard, hardedness. That is a destitute of spiritual perception, a destitute of spiritual perception (Matthew 19:8). If you have spiritual perception, you won’t get a divorce. Not if it’s at all possible not to give it. If you have spiritual perception, you’ll see the eternalness of the marriage (Matthew 19:6). But when you lose, when a person comes to the point of divorce and they want a divorce, then what they are really seeing is no spiritual perception. They’re seeing only the earthly realm (2 Corinthians 5:7). That’s why tonight you’re hearing something and you’re seeing something in a brand new way and you’re going to be challenged to walk in this now. You’re going to see there is no way out. A marriage is for eternity (Matthew 19:6). All they saw was the flesh marriage. They couldn’t see the spiritual union and it’s that way today.
It is this way today. People don’t see what happened in the spirit realm when they were married. All they see is what happened at that church altar or at that place wherever they were married in that little piece of paper. And they just say, well, if I can kill that little piece of paper, then I can kill this marriage. That’s not what Jesus says (Matthew 19:6). You can kill it on earth. But from the beginning, the eternal purposes you can (Matthew 19:4–8). Because the people have no spiritual perception, they did not understand marriage, was consummated in the spiritual of the heavenly realm as well as the earthly (Genesis 2:24). They only saw… But the law allowed them to divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1). But Jesus said this was not God’s purpose from the beginning (Matthew 19:8). And the Lord’s emphasis is always on the eternal purpose, point F, verse 9 (Matthew 19:9). And I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication (Matthew 19:9). Say fornication. Fornication. And shall marry another committed adultery (Matthew 19:9). Say adultery. Adultery. Do you see the two words for fornication and adultery? Do you notice that they’re not the same word? Fornication and adultery.
Matthew 19:9
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Fornication, number one, 42.02, look at that word (Matthew 19:9). Look at that Greek word. Tell me what word does it remind you of? K, point A. And then look at the next one, that the root word of that, point U. And then finally, 42.04, point A. We’re talking about pornography type things. We’re talking about something of a very illicit matter and statute, point A. The root word is 42.03. And the word actually means a harlotry. It includes adultery. It includes adultery, but it goes beyond adultery and goes on into things such as incest (1 Corinthians 5:1). It goes beyond adultery. The word that is taken from point U. It means to act a harlot. That is to indulge in unlawful lust of either sex (Romans 1:26–27). You see what fornication involves. Fornication is involving a lesbianism, fornication is involving homosexuality, fornication is involving the vialist of things (1 Corinthians 6:9–10). Now it does include adultery. And probably a fornicator is an adulterer. But it goes beyond simple. It goes beyond adultery. 42.04, point A. Stumpet. Now I had to look at my fucking diagonals to find out what Stumpet means. But a Stumpet is a whore or a harlot (Revelation 17:1).
Now in Matthew 15, let’s turn there, Matthew 15, again, I want to show you that in Matthew 15 and also in Mark 7, you’ll see that the words are separated. They’re not the same word. Matthew 15 and 19 (Matthew 15:19). For out of the heart, proceed evil thoughts, murders, what? Adulteries? What? Fornications, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.
Matthew 15:19
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Now do you see that the two words are separated? Did you see that adulteries and fornications are not the same word? All right. And it’s the same way in Mark 7, 21.
Mark 7:21–23
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Adultery is not the same as fornication (Matthew 15:19). The two words are separated in these verses and also in the verse we now look at in Matthew chapter 19 (Matthew 19:9). Now adultery, what does adultery mean then? Adultery, 34-30. It means adultery. But it’s taken from a 34-32 with the base word of that, the root word. It means a paramour. I had to look up thunken wagons again to find out what a paramour is. But a paramour is a lover, especially one who unlawfully takes the place of a husband or a wife (Proverbs 6:32).
The key word is one. A fornicator is plural in his lust, in his incest, in his sexuality, in his vileness (Romans 1:26–27). An adulterer is one. An adulterer has fallen in love. An adulterer has a lover. An adulterer is somebody who has emotionally allowed themselves to get involved with a person. And then that person begins to take the place of the husband or the wife (Exodus 20:14). Adultery speaks of an unlawful relationship which has happened because of love or the emotional state of love (Proverbs 6:32). Two people allow themselves to fall into an emotional relationship which the woman takes the place of a man’s wife or a man takes the place of a woman’s husband. This could include sexual intercourse but not necessarily. Now, what do I mean there? I mean that when a woman needs to be going to her husband for answers and situations and she goes to somebody else’s husbands for answers and situations, that is the form of adultery (Exodus 20:14). Put it in the spiritual realm. We need to come to the Lord Jesus Christ for our answers and for our conclusions and for all of our answers in life but yet we go to the world (James 4:4). That’s the form of a spiritual adultery where having an adulterer’s relationship with the world when we should be dedicated and locked in to find all of our answers in the word of God (James 4:4). Is that right?
So we go to another woman or we go to another man to let him or her replace our spouse. Two people allow themselves to fall into an emotional, I’ve already read that. It could be sexual intercourse but not necessarily. The emphasis on this word is it is in an involvement with one person, it’s a lover. And that it differs from the fornication, fornication is perverseness (Matthew 19:9). It is one given to our baptized into, given over to, totally taken into sexual immoralities (Romans 1:24). It includes incest, homosexuality, lesbianism and other sexual violence (1 Corinthians 6:9–10). It is unlimited sexual relations with no law involved only sexual gratification design. It is unlimited partners in unlimited, unlawful and lawless sexual conduct. You see the difference in adulterer and the fornicator. A fornicator is only after sexual gratification or some sort of gratification, possibly not only sexual, but there’s a gratification that comes in an adulterous relationship. But a fornicator is only after sexual gratification, after sexual, he’s baptized into it. The adulterer has fallen into an emotional trapment. Both words are used in verse 9 and according to Jesus (Matthew 19:9).
Now tell me, according to Jesus, what is the only thing that permits a divorce? Fornication (Matthew 19:9). When your marital partner has got so vile and so wicked that you’re going to have to turn him over to destruction of the flesh anyway (1 Corinthians 5:5). Not adultery, oh, but Delber, I know but Delber, that Jesus said fornication didn’t he? And then he clearly says that the reason that you can get a divorce is by the fornicator (Matthew 19:9). If he or she is a fornicator, then you can get the divorce. You have my permission too, he says. But then you become an adulterer, if you marry again (Matthew 19:9). You allow yourself to get emotionally involved with somebody else, unless this person was a fornicator, you weren’t separated from that person. Am I saying that you have to live with an adulterer? No, because if he continuously or she continuously remains an adulterer, she’s in fornication (Matthew 19:9). You say she’s baptized or he’s baptized into that. But I do know this. I know that adulterer can be forgiven and I know that the marriage can be restored to its eternal purposes (John 8:11). And that’s what God said and Jesus says from the beginning is to have the eternal purposes of the marriage (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6). Do you agree with that? Do you believe adultery can be forgiven? Yeah, I’m seeing this.
From the previous definition of the words Jesus then is saying the only permissible cause of divorce is when a marital partner has become so vile that he or she is given her baptized to fornication (Matthew 19:9). Does this mean that even adultery, a loving tanglement, is to be forgiven? If this is indeed what the Lord is saying, it does. I do know it can be forgiven and the marriage restored on earth and in heaven, which is the eternal purpose (Genesis 2:24). Now the point is in the next verse, the whole point that I feel that the Lord’s coming to and has built here and what we have got to grasp tonight is this. If every avenue has not been exhausted to restore the marriage forgiveness, the restoration truly attempted and they divorce a marry then both a man and a woman if ever married has committed adultery and an awful love affair (Matthew 19:9). Not on earth, but in the spiritual or heavenly realm. These two hours shall put away as one and shall marry another committed adultery (Matthew 19:9). Now here what I feel the spirit saying and the Lord saying and what I’m hearing in my spirit is that when marital conflicts arise, is that every avenue must be explored and examined to maintain that marriage, every single one (Matthew 19:6). Unless the individual is so baptized into his perversions that he cannot be helped (1 Corinthians 5:5). Until that point, every avenue must be sought after to maintain the marriage. And then Jesus says after that, then it’s alright (Matthew 19:9).
Marriages are very, very special things. Marriages are very, very important to God (Hebrews 13:4). They’re important to Jesus. And I think that we’re living in a society and in a day where we come to an altar and we say, well, if it don’t work, I’ll get another one. And I know that we’re not that way, so please don’t think I’m talking to you or anyone here. I’m just talking to our society. Do you hear what I’m saying to say? It’s not. I’m not talking to anyone. I’m just saying that we live in a society that thinks this way. The disciples came then and they said to him, and you can look in Mark and the Pharisees that they left and they had gone to a room and the disciples came and said to him, in the case of a man be so, if the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry (Matthew 19:10; Mark 10:10–12).
Matthew 19:10
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
And I think he says, if this is the situation between a husband and a wife, it’s better not to marry (Matthew 19:10). Phillips Bible says, if that is a man’s position with his wife, it is not worth getting married. In other words, if I’ve got to keep these vials that I’m saying, and if I’ve got to live this thing out for eternity, then it’s really not worth getting married. I’ll just live with somebody (Hebrews 13:4). Do we live in a society like that? You see, the disciples have been affected by the mentality of the people (Matthew 19:10) and we live in an age where the key people of God, somebody greatest evangelist and people of God, have been so affected by a society that they’ve got to pervert in mind (Romans 1:28). We live in the same mentality to do.
But he said to them, all men cannot receive this thing, save they to whom it is given (Matthew 19:11).
Matthew 19:11
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
How many people can receive what I’ve told you tonight? What if I preach this on Sunday morning? What if I went to one of the other fellowships in the city and they can’t receive this? This is a hard word (John 6:60) and I ask you Lord in the last Sunday morning, don’t make me hard, I don’t want to be hard. This is hard and not a whole lot of people can grab a hold of this and see the eternalness of your marriage (Matthew 19:6). For there are some unix, which were so born from their mother’s womb, and there are some unix, which were made unix of men, and there be unix, which have made themselves unix for the kingdom of heaven’s sake (Matthew 19:12). He that is able to receive it, let him receive it (Matthew 19:12).
Matthew 19:12
12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Now what’s he say? A unit is a castrated person (Matthew 19:12). He gives us three examples and what is here is in the context of marriage and divorce and he’s answering their question and he says, here it is, fellas, you’ve got two options. You can get married and understand it and walk in an eternal state of marriage or here’s your other option, you can become a unit for the kingdom (Matthew 19:12).
There are some unix who were born with a physical, genital disability (Matthew 19:12). Some people were born and could not reproduce. Some people were born with a disability, birth defect. Some people were made unix, castrated by men (Matthew 19:12), and I’ve got you some examples there that happened in the Old Testament where individuals kept heroms and they castrated them (2 Kings 20:18; Esther 2:3). It was thought that Daniel was a unit (Daniel 1:3–7), but he says there are others, and because they don’t want to go through the heartache and pain and trouble of a marriage, possibly because they don’t know if they can maintain it or maybe it’s because they just never sense to get married. They make themselves units for the kingdom’s sake (Matthew 19:12). The Lord tells us there are two directions that a person can travel in the kingdom of heaven. The first is to have a marriage built on eternity from the beginning (Matthew 19:4–6). The second is abstinence from marriage and the relationships involved, body, soul, and spirit (1 Corinthians 7:7–8). You can’t even unite your spirit with the opposite sex (1 Corinthians 6:17), and then this is what I’m talking about. If a person cannot correctly enter the first, then the second is the only alternative. If a person cannot enter the marriage with the understanding that it is forever, then he or she needs to become celibate and need to become a unit (Matthew 19:12).
Now there are some scriptures there about that, and 1 Corinthians 7 and verse 7 and 8 talks about Paul, how he had been given the gift of celibacy (1 Corinthians 7:7–8).
1 Corinthians 7:7–8
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7, 1, and verse 25, and verse 26, and verse 32, verse 34, verse 35, verse 37, chapter 7 will open up to you now (1 Corinthians 7:1, 25–26, 32, 34–35, 37). You go home to night and read chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians (1 Corinthians 7). It will just explode to you now, particularly if you read it in our V translation or one of the other translation. It will just erupt in your mind now. In those verses, he says marrying is good, but celibacy is better (1 Corinthians 7:7–8, 32–35). Then in 1 Corinthians 7 too, and then through 5, 2 through 5, and then verse 9 and verse 27, he says it’s better to marry than to burn (1 Corinthians 7:2–5, 9, 27). He says, you then that are not married and you who are widowed, then what is it about you? He says, I would rather that you didn’t marry (1 Corinthians 7:8). He says that I would rather you marry than to burn (1 Corinthians 7:9).
1 Corinthians 7:9
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Now, the thought is that that burn there is talking about burning in the lust area (1 Corinthians 7:9), but I believe it transcends that. If you read chapter 7, you’ll find out that the woman’s body is not her own body, it’s also the man’s body is not her own body, but it’s also the woman’s (1 Corinthians 7:4). When a marriage can come to that kind of an understanding, when a marriage can come to that kind of a place and understanding of each other’s needs and what each other has to have to keep yourself out of seeing, you’ll understand what a wonderful thing is God given us if we’ll come to an understanding of that. The woman helps the man stay out of seeing and the man helps the woman and reads it in chapter 7 and you’ll see it (1 Corinthians 7:2–5).
The principle is this, if Paul wishes to remain unmarried, let him do so (1 Corinthians 7:7–8). But if Seface or Peter prefers to take his life along in his travels and first Corinthians 9 and 5, let him do so (1 Corinthians 9:5), but there are the two options.
1 Corinthians 9:5
5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Marriage with an eternal perspective or celibacy (Matthew 19:4–6, 12). Once Christ did not marry and the natural, and the natural, he was a unit for the kingdom sake (Matthew 19:12). Then the spiritual, he’s married to the church (Ephesians 5:25–32). So you can go with the way with him, as you’re two ways with him. The principle in this section is if we marry, we need to understand that marriage is for eternity with the exception of fornication (Matthew 19:6, 9). If a person cannot marry forever, then to Jesus there is only one alternative. That alternative is to become a unit for the kingdom of heaven’s sake (Matthew 19:12). There is no other ground in the kingdom. Marry for life or be a unit. It is that he that is able to receive it. Let him receive it (Matthew 19:12).
Now I’ve gone over, but I just couldn’t quit on this. I think everybody understands I was never at a place where I could quit. On page 276, I have a paragraph that I felt impressed to write. It’s just kind of trying to, I know that you know where my heart is, but you’re maybe sitting there and you’re saying, well, where am I at in the kingdom now? This thing’s got me a little confused. Well, I want you to understand that you’re at a place of understanding now that you haven’t been before and that from this day on you are accountable now for the actions that you take (James 4:17). Don’t get divorced (Matthew 19:6). I just feel I need to say something in the way of Sav. To some of us who have suffered divorce. Perhaps you did not have scriptural right to divorce (Matthew 19:9). Perhaps you were the fornicator or the adulterer (Matthew 19:9). Perhaps you could not forgive at that time in your life and that should be now you are not remarried and you ask, where am I concerning the kingdom? It is evident you do not have the gift to be a kingdom unit (Matthew 19:11–12). So you have done the next best thing. It’s better to marry than to burn (1 Corinthians 7:9). Whatever has happened in the past has happened. Make peace with the past (Philippians 3:13–14). If you have not forgiven, you must (Ephesians 4:32).
How many know if you have been hurt by a previous spouse or a previous anybody and you’re still hurting about that thing, you better forgive it (Mark 11:25). Right? You got to forgive it. If you need to ask forgiveness, you must (James 5:16). But then, that should be go. But then go on. Now you understand God’s eternal purpose from the beginning (Matthew 19:4–6). Talk now in what you know. Release yourself of all guilt and give yourself totally to your mate (Romans 8:1). This is the person that you will be with for eternity (Matthew 19:6). There is no other answer. Many people, once they see the truth of the purpose of God from the beginning, fight with the fight of returning to the first mate. Now, this was a teaching not too very long ago and it got to be a big thing in the church world. People were wanting to leave the woman that they had gotten married to and go back to their first wife and try to reconcile the marriage. What good is that? That’s not accomplishing anything. That’s not the answer. That’s in the past and that’s done. If you read in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, if you’ll read that tonight, you’ll see where Paul says, wherever you are at, when you were called and that’s where you’re to walk (1 Corinthians 7:20, 24).
1 Corinthians 7:20
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
You’re where you are right now and God’s revealing this to you, so now walk in this (1 Corinthians 7:20, 24). That’s impossible to go back. Let me turn to that first mate. Take the first mate, but more importantly, forgive yourself and work his purpose into your children and others (Romans 8:28). You are saved and forgiven now walk in your understanding (Colossians 2:6).
Now I hope I have freed you and not put you in bondage with that paragraph, but I wanted you to see. I knew that that could possibly bring some situations and questions. Now I want your head’s bound and I know you’re pretty good and I know who I’ve been talking to and I know who I’ve possibly offended and I know what I’ve said and I just, but I just, I’ve got to have peace when I leave here (Colossians 3:15). I love you people and I love you with more than a sloppy agape love of the Lord (John 13:34). I mean, I’ll lay down my life for you and you know that (John 15:13), but this is the word of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 2:13). And I just know, I just know that in some of you who have suffered the tragedy of divorce, that you have never been released from that situation and I don’t want us leaving here tonight, unreleased (Luke 4:18). Now I want eyes squinched tight, okay, I don’t want nobody looking around. This is between these people and me and God. This is you. You haven’t totally released that person. You’re not totally released from that thing. You’ve been in a bondage because of divorce (Galatians 5:1). You felt put down in the kingdom. You don’t feel like that you ought to be where you’re at and doing what you’re doing. But tonight I’m trying to give you some liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17). I’m trying to show you you’ve got understanding now and now you can walk in it (Ephesians 5:8). If that’s you denied and that you’re seeing tonight, that you can be free and you can go on in the kingdom of God and God has an eternal purpose for you (Philippians 1:6). And if you’ll pick it up right down and walk in it (Colossians 1:10), if that’s you, I want you to lift your hand and just let me know that you’re free from this thing now (John 8:36).
Matthew 19 Verses 1-12
Matthew 19 Verses 1-12
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