Satan is attacking our families!
Satan is attacking our marriages!
He is convincing men and women that they are not happy in their marriage.
He is playing on the emotions of "I don't want this life anymore" or "I feel trapped".
There are endless selfish reasons that you can come up with but let me be clear it boils down to sin.
Men and women are so wrapped up in self that they can't see the lies that Satan has planted in their hearts.
They do not heed the warnings that are rooted deeply in their spirits about how destructive sexual sin is.
People think that divorce is fine.
The kids will rebound.
The parents will move on.
Not true, divorce has a lasting detrimental effect on kids.
It gives them a sense of loss that can never be fixed.
It ruins women's self esteem even though they were never the problem.
The problem was a self absorbed man who never grew up.
It wrecks men's hearts because they know they gave everything they had to a selfish vain woman who could never be pleased.
There is no difference between a Jezebel and a prostitute.
They are both deceitful, cunning as a snake and lead men down the path to destruction.
As for men who dive into sexual sin, grow up, learn to commit your life to God and His plan for a monogamous lifelong marriage.
It is possible!
There will be times where you will not like each other and that is ok.
You pray about it asking God to correct your selfishness and He will.
And make no mistake, it is selfishness.
Divorce came about because of the hardness of man's heart.
Men and women, will you repent?
Prostitutes and adulteress:
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
28 She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind. - Proverbs 23:27-28
Sexual Sin Defiles the Body
12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything.
13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"-and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Sexual Sin Defiles the Church
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-
10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler-not even to eat with such a one.
12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
13 God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you." - 1 Corinthians 5
Hard Hearts:
2 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"
4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
5 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'?
6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
7 They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?"
8 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.
9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery." - Matthew 19:2-9
Repent:
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. - 2 Peter 3:9
