Homerton Baptist Church
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1 Timothy 4:6–16HLYBBLOTNT1895
- Hymn 320 - NAME OF ALL MAJESTY
Psalms 66.1-4NKJV
- Hymn 772 - Amazing Grace
Ephesians 1:1–16NKJV
Song of Solomon 6:4–10NKJV
Deuteronomy 1:1–8NKJV
- Hymn 1294 - NO GREATER LOVE
1 Timothy 4:6–16HLYBBLOTNT1895
Matthew 5.31-32NKJV
Matthew 19.3-5NKJV
Matthew 19.6-8NKJV
Matthew 19.9NKJV
- Order of ServiceWelcomeHymn - NAME OF ALL MAJESTY (320)Psalm Reading
Psalm 66:1–4 ESV Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you. All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” SelahPrayerTeen TalkHymn - SHOUT WITH JOY TO GOD (66)NoticesPrayer Meeting - 7:30pmFriday 7pm - OnlineSunday Morning 11am & 6pmTithes & Offerings - £Main PrayerBirthdaysPrayer ItemsHymn - NO GREATER LOVE (1294)Sermon SearchReadingMatthew 5:31–32 ESV “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Matthew 19:3–9 ESV And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”SermonMatthew 5:31–32 ESV “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Pharisees & Scribes: Debated endlessly, resulting in a Certificate of DivorceThey had become flipant over divorce, not seeing it in light of ScriptureProblem in the modern professing churchSelf-righteous attitude amonst professing believersMany are affected and hurt by sinSin is against GodSin is against the victimJesus equates it to infidelity and adulteryMarriage OrdinanceGenesis 2:24 ESV Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.7th CommandmentExodus 20:14 ESV “You shall not commit adultery.Faithless to each other & to God (Losing touch with God)Malachi 2:14–16 ESV But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”Paul highlights that Marriage is symbolic of the relationship between Christ and the ChurchEphesians 5:31–32 ESV “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.Hebrews 13:4 ESV Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.A faithless attitude towards marriage (each other) reflects a faithless attitude towards GodPharisees Questioned JesusMatthew 19:3–9 ESV And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”NB: Same account in Mark 10:1-12from the beginningOne man & one womanImplication that death alone is able to part themRomans 7:2 ESV For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.Exception: Infidelity permits divorceMatthew 5:32 ESV But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Allowance, not expectation or a rulesexual immorality: extramarital, unlawful or unnaturalMarital unfaithfulness rises in rebellion against the very essence of the marriage bondPaul affirms that even an unbelieving husband/wife is not grounds for divorce1 Corinthians 7:13 ESV If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.Forgivness2 Corinthians 2:5–11 ESV Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.Certificate of Divorce:Deuteronomy 24:1–4 ESV “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then 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 of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter man hates 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 man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.Moses while not forbidding it, had greatly discouraged itHusband, think twice as you cannot have her back once she remarries even if that marriage endsScribes & Pharisees: greatly exaggerated the importance of “the exception”Indecency implied catching her with another man, being in a state of undress“Makes her commit adultery”Matthew 5:31–32 ESV “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Do not misintepret !She has been wronged, and it is the Husband who does the wrongHe is responsible for the offenceBoth are responsible for commitment to the marriage1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.Jesus & Moses teaching inferes...The erring husband should be given an opportunity to correct his error and go back to his wifeAlso, warning to others rushing in to take the deserted wife as they face committing adulteryJesus...discourages divorceRefutes the misinterpretation of the lawreaffirms the law’s true meaningcensures the guilty partydefends the innocentthroughout upholds the sacredness and inviolability (not to be broken) of marriageHymn - GREAT LORD AND GOD, WE GREET THE DAY (1223)Closing PrayerDoxology Matthew 5:31–32NKJV
Genesis 2:24NKJV
Exodus 20:14NKJV
Malachi 2:14–16NKJV
Ephesians 5:31–32NKJV
Hebrews 13:4NKJV
Matthew 19:3–9NKJV
Romans 7:2NKJV
1 Corinthians 7:39NKJV
Matthew 5:32NKJV
1 Corinthians 7:13NKJV
2 Corinthians 2:5–11NKJV
Deuteronomy 24:1–4NKJV
Matthew 5:31–32NKJV
1 Corinthians 7:5NKJV
- Hymn 1223 - GREAT LORD AND GOD, WE GREET THE DAY
- Doxology 151 v3
2 Corinthians 13:14HLYBBLOTNT1895
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