MALACHI 2: 8 - 10

ONLY OUR SALVATION IS MORE LONG LASTING AND FUNDAMENTAL

CONSIDER:◦ MILITARY SERVICE?◦ EMPLOYMENT?◦ HOUSE?

IT WAS HIS IDEA IT WAS GOD WHO MADE THE RACE MALE AND

FEMALE IT WAS GOD WHO LOOKED AT THE MAN IN HIS

SINGLENESS …. AND JUDGED IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO BE ALONE, I WILL

MAKE HIM A HELPER SUITABLE FOR HIM◦ IT WAS NOT ANOTHER MAN, NOR ANIMAL, NOR ….

INTERESTING…..◦ SUGGESTS MAN SHOULD NOT BE ON THE PROWL

LEAVE IT TO GOD TO BRING THE WOMAN INTO YOUR LIFE

- SUGGESTS THE FATHER (GOD THE FATHER) WAS PRESENT WHEN THE MARRIAGE COVENANT WAS MADE

- WHAT VOWS WERE MADE?

MARRIAGE VOWS…..◦ NOTICE: EVEN IN REVELATION JUST PRIOR TO

THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB…. CHRIST THE LAMB PRESENTS HIS BRIDE TO THE FATHER …. THEN COMES THE SECOND COMING AND THE BRIDE COMES WITH THE BRIDEGROOM TO THE EARTH FOR THE 1000 REIGN (MILLINEUM) … NO MENTION OF VOWS….

◦ INTERESTING.

IS MARRIAGE A CONTRACT OR A COVENANT?◦ WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

1. -A COVENANT IS BASED ON TRUST BETWEEN PARTIES

-A CONTRACT IS BASED ON DISTRUST2.A COVENANT IS BASED ON UNLIMITED

RESPONSIBILITYA CONTRACT IS BASED ON LIMITED LIABILITY

3.A COVENANT CANNOT BE BROKEN IF NEW CIRCUMSTANCES OCCUR

4.A CONTRACT CAN BE VOIDED BY MUTUAL CONSENT

ADULTERY:

FORNICATION:

ADULTERY: VOLUNTARY SEXUAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN A MARRIED MAN AND SOMEONE OTHER THAN HIS WIFE , OR BETWEEN A MARRIED WOMAN AND SOMEONE OTHER THAN HER HUSBAND.

FORNICATION: 1. HUMAN SEXUAL INTERCOURSE OTHER THAN BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS WIFE, I.E. THEY ARE NOT MARRIED.◦ 2. SEXUAL INTERCOURSE ON THE PART OF

UNMARRIED PERSONS

ADULTERY ? Lev. 19:10

FORNICATION? Lev 19: 20

WHY ????

ADULTERY ? Lev. 19:10 DEATH

FORNICATION? Lev 19: 20 SCOURAGING

WHY: Marriage is holy (set apart) GOD LOVES IT IT IS A COVENANT

“HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER ? HAS NOT ONE GOD CREATED US (i.e.

CHOOSE US JEWS TO BE HIS CHOSEN/COVENANT PEOPLE)?

WHY DO WE DEAL TREACHEROUSLY WITH ONE ANOTHER BY PROFANING THE COVENANT OF THE FATHER?”

(DON’T YOU REMEMBER WHO YOUR ARE?)

◦ WHY ? WHAT WAS SO SPECIAL ABOUT CREATION? Answer:

◦ ONE MAN/ONE WOMAN … SPECIALLY MATCHED NOT FOR BOXING… BUT AS COMPLIMENT TO EACH OTHER

◦ FOR LIFE CLEAVE UNTO THE OTHER… (CLEAVE MEANS IN SCRIPTURE: ‘GLUED’)

- GOD MADE THEM ONE – PERMANENTLY (SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND SOCIALLY)

-GOD SAID: “BE FRUITFUL AND INCREASE IN NUMBER”GOD IS SEEKING A GODLY OFFSPRING

SAM CALOROSO WILL BE ADDRESSING WHAT TO DO WITH THOSE THAT FIND THEY ARE “UNMATCHED” AND OTHER TOPICS DEALING WITH DIVORCE.

IT IS THE FIRST….. PRIMARY …. EARTHLY INSTITUTION..◦ FROM MARRIAGE GOD GIVES GOVERNMENT, EDUCATIONAL

INSTITUTIONS, INSTITUTIONS OF CARE◦ DESTROY MARRIAGE AND THESE OTHER INSTITUTIONS WILL

FALL WITH IT.

◦ WDC OPINION…..◦ NO MATTER WHAT SOME HOMOSEXUAL FEDERAL JUDGE FROM

SAN FRANCISCO SAYS (MAIN-STREAM MEDIA DID NOT REPORT HIS “SEXUAL PREFERENCE”)

◦ IT IS SO AMAZING TO ME THAT many MILLIONs of PEOPLE CAN VOTE ON AN ISSUE… AND THE OPPONENTS CAN ALWAYS FIND ONE JUDGE THAT WILL DECLARE IT “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” … IN CONTRAST, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT MANY IN THE CURRENT CONGRESS HAVE NOT EVEN READ THE CONSTITUTION.

MARRIAGE VERSE 11: “JUDAH HAS DEALT TREACHEROUSLY, AND AN ABOMINATION HAS BEEN COMMITTED IN ISRAEL AND IN JERUSALEM, FOR JUDAH HAS PROFANED, THE HOLY INSTITUTION WHICH HE LOVES”◦DID YOU CATCH THAT?… GOD LOVES MARRIAGE

VS 11 (CON’T) “HE (THEY) HAVE MARRIED THE DAUGHTER OF A FOREIGN GOD”

NOTICE: HE DID NOT SAY “FOREIGN WOMEN”◦ WHY? FOREIGN WOMEN BROUGHT THEIR

FOREIGN GOD’S TO THE ISRAELITES…. (MIXED MARRIAGES) REMEMBER BALAAM? REMEMBER SOLOMON? REMEMBER Ai ? (ACHAN - Joshua 7) In Contrast: Remember Ruth … and also the “mixed

multitude” that came with Israel out of Egypt

Paul in 2 Cor. 6 says there is NO possibility for people in the two kingdom to be bound together in common spiritual work,

NO PARTNERSHIP, NO FELLOWSHIP NO HARMONY NO COMMONALITY NO AGREEMENT CAN EXIST

ALL RELATIONSHIPS WITH UNBELIEVERS ARE SUPERFICIAL…◦ NOT WITH THE JOY AND BLESSING AND

INTIMACY THAT GOD GIVES WITH OBEDIANCE.

“DO NOT YOKE TOGETHER AN OX AND AN ASS”

THEY HAVE DIFFERENT STRIDES/GAIT DIFFERENT NATURES/DIFFERENT

DISPOSITION/DIFFERENT STRENGTH THEY GO IN CIRCLES … I COR. 7: 39

◦“MARRY ONLY IN THE LORD”

2 CORINTHIANS 6: 17-18◦ “DO NOT BE BOUND TOGETHER WITH

UNBELIEVERS” (ASSUMES HIS AUDIENCE ARE BELIEVERS) AND BE YE SEPARATE”

◦ CONTEXT INDICATES THIS IS NOT ABOUT MUTUAL FUNDS, SCHOOLS, sports WORK PLACE, NEIGHBORHOOD, HOSPITAL PLANS, ETHNICITY, ET AL

MARRIAGE …. (Mark Twain) EVANGELISM Selection of CHURCH

◦ REASONs: 1. It is irrational (verse 14) 2. It is sacrilegious (verse 16) 3. It is disobedient (verse 17) 4. It is unprofitable (verse 17) 5. It is ungrateful (verse 1, Chap 7)

1. COMPANIONSHIP .. Amos 3:3 2. ENJOYMENT .. Heb 13: 4 (the bed is

undefiled) 3. COMPLETENESS .. Gen. 2:23 4. FRUITFULNESS … Gen 1:28, I Peter 3:7

◦ “and being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered” incl. PRODUCING GODLY OFFSPRING

• 5. PROTECTION .. Eph. 5:25• 6. TYPIFY CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.. Eph 5:31

EVEN WHEN ONE HAS MARRIED AN UNBELIEVER…. GOD’S GRACE SOMETIMES BRINGS THE UNBELIEVER TO HIMSELF… OR WHAT IF ONE BECOMES A CHRISTIAN AFTER THEY ARE MARRIED…◦ COME NEXT WEEK

GOD WILL JUDGE SIN. VS 12: “May the LORD cut-off from the tents

of Jacob, the man who does this, being awake and aware, yet who brings an offering to the LORD OF HOSTS.”

i.e. GOD will reject the sinner who thinks that by bringing an offering… everything is OK with GOD. He will cut-off your offspring…so none will exist to pass on this horrible sin.

DON’T SET ASIDE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOD OF CREATION… THE ALL POWERFUL ONE, THE SOVEREIGN ONE, THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU….

THE ONE WHO DESIRES TO BLESS YOU SO WHAT: OH CHRISTIANS, DON’T MARRY

AN UNBELIEVER; GET OUT OF A CHURCH THAT DOESN’T TAKE THE WORD OF GOD LITERALLY; and DON’T EVANGELIZE WITH UNBELIEVERS.