Value and Uphold Marriage

All right, there you go. All right. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to coffee and devotions this morning. We're at Deuteronomy chapter 24 verses 1 through 4. Man, that camera is really shaking all over the place, isn't it? Yeah. All right. Well, we're at Deuteronomy chapter 24 verses 1 through 4. These are laws about divorce.
So let's go ahead and have some coffee. We'll pray. We'll get into God's word. Thank you. Not gonna go for it. Yeah, let's pray. God, thank you so much for time together. Thank you for your word. Lord, we pray that you would please help us as we read your word. Please teach us. Lord, we pray that you would soften us. Lord, let us love what you love. Teach us, Lord, by your Holy Spirit to put on righteousness and to walk in your ways. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. All right. Deuteronomy chapter 24, verses one through four. And you're going to read Go ahead.
When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of this house. When she has departed from this house and goes and becomes another man's wife, if the latter husband detests her, and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of the house. For if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled. For it is an abomination before the Lord and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God has given you as an inheritance.
OK, so we've got three questions to ask ourselves. A, what is this about? B, what's the best first to summarize? Good. And C, what are we told to do? All right. So, A, what is this about? Break it down for me, girl. OK, so it's about divorce. So a man is married to a woman and there's something unfavorable that he finds in her. What must he do? He must send her away. Can he just say, get out of my house? Okay, so Doesn't sound very loving doesn't know but this is right it there has to be a legal process for actually divorcing in Israel, but if you divorce her what happens is If you divorce her and then she goes and marries someone else and that person divorces her or dies, then you can't take her as your wife.
Yeah, right. Because now she's been bound to another man. And so you can't you can't be doing that type of stuff. Right. So even in this, the Lord's trying to restrain their evil. Right. So Jesus is actually challenged by the disciples or by by the people at his time about this. Do you know that? Yeah.
So so the people in Jesus's time, the Jewish people said, well, Moses said that we just need to issue a certificate of divorce. And Jesus said, Moses told you that because of the hardness of your own heart. But it wasn't so from the beginning. This is where Jesus instructs us on marriage, right?
Who married Adam and Eve? God did. And that's that picture for marriage. And so what God has joined together led Like, no man tear us under, right? Rip apart, right? So yeah, so Jesus says that Moses is giving us this commandment, not because this is the perfect scenario, but women still needed protected. Marriages still need to, you couldn't just dissolve a marriage easily. And so they were God was restraining the and the evils in their hearts Trying to teach them that marriage was supposed to be this beautiful picture and not something where you just pass around women like trading cards Yes, we don't really have trading cards. They do leave Maybe passing them around like memes texting each other I don't know what you but but that women are supposed to be valued marriage is supposed to be highly valued There's a point right?
So what do you think is the best verse to summarize this section? Probably the first verse. OK, yeah, that's good. Good. Yeah. So it's kind of two parts, but yeah, the first the first part is important. Well, let's talk about see calling. So what are we called to do? What is this talking about with covenant? And how does this show us Jesus Christ? Good one.
It's the same one I ask every day. um probably that divorce isn't easy and you don't really have a second chance hmm Oh, I think there are times for a biblical divorce. Right. Jesus even talks about that. Right. If any man divorces his wife except for sexual immorality. Right. And so I think there's a sexual immorality. And then Paul also tells us in the book of First Corinthians about a unbelieving spouse who deserts their husband or wife. Right. So if if you're married to a non Christian and they say, I don't want to have anything to do with you and they leave, then you're free from that marriage.
Right. So so there are there seem to be two legitimate reasons for divorce. Right. And so we can talk about those implications some other time. Right. But you're right that we should try to as much as we can hold to lifelong marriage. Sometimes you don't have a second chance. That's true. But I think the point is that it's upholding marriage How does that have anything to do with Jesus? I'm thinking You can't just divorce Jesus from your life OK, you can't just divorce Jesus from your life. I haven't thought about that way. You want to know what picture Jesus uses for how he loves us? Husbands, love your own wives. As Christ loves the church. Jesus loves his people like a husband loves his wife. And is Jesus just going to go get away from you?
I don't care about you. Yeah. Oh, he bought us with his own precious blood. And so what he just like, oh, I don't want them anymore. No. Right. So this is this is this beautiful picture of even how Jesus loves us. And so I think this is actually a good picture for why I would encourage young women. Find somebody who loves Jesus because hopefully they'll love you like Jesus loves the church Right and so I think there's all sorts of applications from this don't marry a guy who would Want a prenuptial agreement because he's worried that maybe he'll divorce you someday Sound good All right, you ready to pray yeah, do you want to or you want me to You wanna pray? Sure.
Okay, go ahead. Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for marriage. Please let us use it wisely and not just go from one thing to another. In Jesus's name, amen. Amen. Well, may the Jesus Christ who loves us, loves you perfectly, comfort you and care for you. May you love him all your life. And we'll see you next time. Say what? Bye.