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Let The Beauty Of Jesus
The Commands of Christ – 16a
A Christian's Righteousness: In Marriage
December 15, 2021

Open: What does the world believe about marriage today?
Optional for sexual relations.
An antiquated human-instituted (church) institution
Is not restricted to one man and one woman for life.
It is a contract, not a covenant.
You need to “try-out” several partners before you get married to see if you are compatible (sexually, etc.).
Procreation and marriage are not necessarily linked.
My spouse will (must) make me happy
My spouse can and must (will?) change
My Private Immorality Does Not Affect My Marriage
Love controls our feelings instead of our Spirit-renewed minds controlling our feelings

Storms: So here’s the problem: How do I honor and esteem marriage without dishonoring and defaming those who have experienced divorce? And how do I encourage and affirm divorced people without appearing to minimize the importance of honoring one’s marital commitment and vows? If I magnify the value of marriage and stress the importance of faithfulness to one’s marital vows, divorced people will feel judged and rejected and unfit for ministry and service in the church. But if I express compassion and love for divorced people and remind them how much God really does love them, others will think I’m glossing over their failures and that I’m contributing to the very devaluation of marriage that I earlier denounced. How do I stress the permanence of marriage without condemning the divorced? And how do I love and affirm the divorced person without condoning sin and failure?

Storms, S. (2016). Biblical Studies: The Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5:31–19:12). Edmond, OK: Sam Storms.

Read: Matthew 5:27-32 and Matthew 19:3-9.

1. What does Matthew 5:27-32 teach us about marriage?
Matthew 5:27–32 NASB95
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 “If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 “If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell. 31 “It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’; 32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Lust is a sin that is countered by marriage. It prevents self-maiming.

Marriage is a commitment that cannot be ended except by sexual immorality. It is intended for life.

Vs. 27-30 teach about shunning lust. How does marriage contribute to a believer’s ability to do that? 1 Corinthians 7:1-9; 1 Timothy 5:13-14; Matthew 19:10-12

Lust is destructive:

1 Corinthians 6:12–20 NASB95
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.” 17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 7:1–9 NASB95
1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3 The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of command. 7 Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

A gift from God:

Matthew 19:10–12 NASB95
10 The disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.” 11 But He said to them, “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 “For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”

The battle against lust:
1 Timothy 5:13–14 NASB95
13 At the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention. 14 Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach;

2. Jesus points back to the first marriage in Genesis. What does the first marriage teach us about God's original design for marriage (Matthew 19:3-6)?
Matthew 19:3–6 NASB95
3 Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?” 4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

What was true about the first marriage that has never been true since?

No rivals
No parents or in-laws
No distractions (although there was still work)
Now we have screens to distract us, before that TV (sports)
Work could have been a distraction for Adam, but I think not
Children distract women especially?
No sin to corrupt anything in marriage:
Temptations
Communications
Relationship
Dangers

LifeGuide Topical Bible Studies - Sermon on the Mount.
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