SERMONS ON DIVORCE
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Dealing with Divorce (1 of 4)
by Ernest Easley
This morning we're continuing our series of messages through the Sermon on the Mount! So take your Bible and join me in Matthew chapter 5. Now if there is one thing we have learned so far about the preaching of Jesus - it's that His preaching was practical! That is - He spoke to the issues of life! He gave them something that would help them face the realities of life! That's why I encourage you to spend time each day in God's Word! Not only does the Bible point you to Jesus for salvation - it prepares you for success: Success in your home - in your marriage, in your relationships - in your work! That's why Sunday School...
Life after Divorce (6 of 6)
by Jerry Vines
This is our last message in our series on Love, Marriage and a Baby Carriage. Divorce is a subject which touches us all. You may have experienced a divorce yourself. Your parents may have divorced. You may have children who have divorced. Whether it be by means of family or by means of friends, all of us are touched by divorce. The statistics are mammoth when you think about divorce. Over a million divorces in America today. Single parent homes are up 80%. About one out of every five children today are being brought up in a single family marriage. I haven't seen last year's statistics, but most years in Duval...
Total Commitment (3 of 4)
by Jeff Strite
A college man walked into a photography studio with a framed picture of his girlfriend. He wanted the picture duplicated. This involved removing it from the frame. In doing this, the studio owner noticed the inscription on the back of the photograph''My dearest Tom, I love you with all my heart. I love you more and more each day. I will love you forever and ever. I am yours for all eternity.''It was signed ''Helen,'' and it contained a P.S.: ''If we ever break up, I want this picture back.'' APPLY: How many of you think she was NOT totally committed to that relationship? Real commitment is a highly prized commodity and those who have experienced...
What Does the Bible Say about Divorce? (4 of 5)
by Jason Dees
Ephesians 5:1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he...
Struggling with Divorce
by Tony Nester
Today we return to a series of messages I began months ago on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. We've come to Jesus' words about divorce. The Sermon on the Mount has a short passage on divorce while Matthew 19 has a longer section on the same subject. I'm interpreting the shorter passage in light of the longer one. I suspect there are few here among us whose marriage or family hasn't been touched by divorce. Mine has. Divorce has slashed away at our parents, our brothers and sisters, our children and our grandchildren. We struggle with divorce. Divorce confronts us with the mess of broken promises, bad...
Jesus on Divorce and Marriage (40 of 70)
by Jerry Watts
One of the modern day approaches to preaching is to 'drop-shoot' preaching and do it by a topic. Candidly, that works for many, but this message highlights a reason why I believe in preaching 'through' books of the Bible. I offer you 4 reasons: a) for context, b) for dealing with unpopular issues, c) for dealing with issues when they're not really issues, and d) to preach the WHOLE counsel of God while attempting to rightly divide the truth. Reading this story I prayed through the many titles and topics which can be gleaned. I considered ''Backing Jesus into a corner'' or even ''Don't Test Jesus'' in which the outline might have...
Divorce Busters (3 of 6)
by Jeff Schreve
You know, we're calling this series, ''And They Lived Happily Ever After.'' And not everybody is living happily ever after. That marriage had some real trouble in it. And that's the case for so many marriages. And, you know, if you go down the road of trouble in marriage, and you continue to go down that road, and go down that road, and don't resolve things, you will eventually have a relationship that separates. There's isolation. There's dissatisfaction. And there could very possibly be divorce. You know, divorce is so rampant in our world today. Everybody I know is touched somehow, some way by divorce. I have three...
Is It Scriptural to Divorce and Remarry? (7 of 8)
by Stan Coffey
This morning I am going to continue my series of messages on ''How To Keep Your Marriage And Family Going And Growing.'' Today as you are finding Matthew 19: 3 I am going to speak on ''Is It Scriptural to Divorce and Remarry?'' Now, in this series on the family, I have endeavored as I always want to do to build the walls around marriage high as I can, as thick as I can, as strong as I can, and I want everybody who is married to do everything they can to preserve and protect that marriage and to build that marriage. I want to do everything I can to discourage divorce because divorce is a very serious matter spiritually, it is a very...
It Ain't over till It's over (1 of 4)
by James Merritt
If you have any reason to wonder why this message is important, maybe this letter will show you better than I could tell you. About four years ago I got a letter from a little girl in Macon, Georgia. Here's what she wrote me: Dear Dr. Merritt, Hello! I was just wondering can you help me? My Mother wants to move to Sweden. I am supposed to go, but I don't trust her. She says I'll come back. I don't know. My Daddy lives here, Georgia, USA. He's American. He is not going. What should I do? If I say Sweden, my Daddy will think I don't love him. I love my American family a lot. If I say USA, my Swedish family will be upset. I love them both...
The Final Authority on Divorce (13 of 21)
by Daniel Rodgers
INTRODUCTION: Last week we had looked (vv. 27-30), with the Lord's warning about wandering eyes. He said that to look upon a woman and lust after her is the same is if a man had committed adultery in his heart. In the following two verses, he goes on to say that it would be better to pluck out the offending eye, rather than for it to cause one to die and go to hell. Of course, cutting off the hand or plucking out the eye is only figurative, and not literal. It simply expresses the serious nature of the offence. Chances are; the man who commits adultery is most-likely unsaved, and the act of adultery is evidence that he's not...
On Marriage and Divorce
by Jesse Hendley
A lady who listens to this broadcast writes, "I know the Bible teaches that unfaithfulness is valid grounds for divorce, but what does it mean when it says that whosoever marrieth her who is put away doth commit adultery? The way I understand it is that if I remarry, the one I marry would be committing adultery since I am put away." Now, she is referring there to Jesus' words in Matthew 5:31, where our Lord is quoting Moses: "Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement. But I say unto you, Whosoever putteth away his wife, except on account of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery...
The Bible On Divorce And Remarriage
by Jim Henry
One of our men handed me a clipping from the April 20, 1981 issue of the Little Sentinel. In that particular issue, the report showed that there were 76 marriages and 125 divorces filed in that particular week. This means that at that particular time there was a 2:1 ratio in Orange County. A few years ago it was one out of every three, then it became one out of every two, and now it’s becoming two out of every three marriages are ending in divorce courts. The movie, “Kramer vs. Kramer,” recently won many awards because it spoke to the heartache and touched the heartstrings of so many people who are going through the trauma of divorce...
Divorce and Marriage (2 of 7)
by Robert Dawson
The Christian community has not been immune to the disintegration of the home and the dismantling of marriages due to divorce. With the divorce rate rising and at times as high within the church as it is without (That is a shame. Of all the people in the world we should know sometimes of forgiveness and grace). Because the number of divorces and second marriages are seemingly on the rise both outside and inside the church creates a very sensitive and at times complicated issue for the church and its leaders. There is a tension the church feels between its responsibility to bear God's standards and its pastoral responsibility and desire...
Divorce: Dealing With the Big 'D'
by Brad Whitt
I want you to take God's Word now this morning, and I want you to be finding your place at Matthew chapter 5 if you will. We are continuing this morning in our short, simple, and loosely connected series of messages on hot topics that we have entitled, "You Asked For It." And since this is a series on hot topics, this morning I need to be wearing an asbestos suit, because this morning we are going to be "Dealing With The Big 'D.'" We're going to be looking today at what the Bible says about marriage and divorce. ILLUS: A couple of weeks ago, as I was preparing for this message, I came across a list of the top 50 country music...
Marriage, Divorce and Jesus (2 of 8)
by Zach Terry
Marriage points to the Essence of Who God is - Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV) 26 Then God said, ''Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'' 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Remember God is Trinity, that is there are 3 distinct persons in ONE GODHEAD. Marriage relationship was the first unit of organized human existence that God ordained...
When Divorce is Scriptural and Marriage is Unscriptural
by Dr. J. Vernon McGee
The Old Testament prophecy of Malachi reveals an age deadened to sin. The people of Israel had been drugged to an unconsciousness of sin. They were in a spiritual stupor with no conviction, which is the lowest state of sin. They mouthed surprise that God would find fault with their lifestyle. They were peevish and petulant children who affected ignorance of God's standards. The sins of which Israel was guilty sound as familiar as the morning newspaper. You and I and our contemporary society need to hear again God's words of reproof, spoken through His man, Malachi the prophet. Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination...
Before You Head to Divorce Court (4 of 8)
by Jeff Lynn
If there were ever a topic that was hotly debated or where the reverence is diminished, it is the topic at which we are going to look this morning. My goal this morning is certainly not to condemn anyone, but to see what Jesus says about divorce and remarriage. Because Jesus also addressed this issue later in Matthew 19, we are going to look at the complementary passage as well, in order to shed light on this issue. TEXT: Matthew 5:31-32; Matthew 19:3-9 As we've seen the past couple of weeks, Jesus is contrasting what the religious element of His day were teaching and doing, versus what God desires.Remember, that Jesus...
Divorce and Healthy Remarriage (7 of 10)
by Bob Ingle
Turn to Matthew 19. Chuck Swindoll said that there are two processes that should never be entered into prematurely: embalming and divorce. In a way, those two things are similar. They both include the death of something important. I'm confident that most of us know how God feels about divorce. In Malachi 2:16, God tells us plainly. He says, ''For I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel.'' The word for 'hate' here is a very strong word that means 'to become an enemy of', or 'to be opposed to'. God says, ''I'm an enemy of divorce. I'm opposed to divorce. I hate divorce.'' Notice God doesn't say He hates divorced people...
Adultery, Lust, and Divorce (6 of 12)
by Will McGee
If you have been here the last few weeks, you know that at this point in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is going back and forth with the Mosaic Law... He is affirming the 10 commandments, and then expounding upon them. Here, he affirms the seventh commandment. Which says, ''Thou shalt not commit adultery.'' Jesus also, affirmed earlier the entire OT sexual ethic. ''I didn't come to abolish the law.''For Jesus to affirm the OT sexual ethic is for him to say: Sex is meant to be shared within a marriage covenant of a husband and wife. Anything outside of that, God does not endorse or bless. In fact, is categorized as adultery...
