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- MacARTHUR, JOHN F. 1939
"Jesus' Teaching On Divorce"
SERMON 1 - Part 1 of 2 - Matthew 19:1-6
SERMON 2 - Part 2 of 2 - Mathew 19:1-6
SERMON 3 - Matthew 19:7-9
SERMON 4 - Matthew 19:10-12
SERMON 5 - Matthew 19:1-12, 1 Corinthians 7:1-
7
SERMON 6 - Matthew 19:1-2, 1 Corinthians 7:8-
40
""But while there are some different things and maybe some things that we'd like to recapture, there are
some things about that early church that are identical to today. There are some things that they
possessed that we also possess, namely the same message, the same Christ, the same Holy Spirit and
the same Word of God with the same teaching, the same principles, and the same demands and
blessings for our life. That doesn't change. And so, as we go to the Word of God and we touch life in
the time of our Lord and life in the time of Paul the Apostle, we must hear what they say and
understand that it is a direct truth for this generation. One of the really tragic things that happens in our
time in the church is that people take the cultural standards and try to back them into the Bible, and
eliminate anything in the Scripture that doesn't fit the way we think we need to live today. We can't do
that to the Word of God without desecrating its purity. We must hear what it says; we must affirm its
principles to be timeless for every generation. Now, one of the areas in which the Bible gives very clear
teaching is the area of divorce and remarriage. We cannot alter that. We cannot change it to
accommodate our quote/unquote "sophisticated day." We cannot back into the Bible with
contemporary ideas and change the Scripture or eliminate the ones that we feel are an intrusion on our
life patterns. We must objectively, openly hear what the Bible says. And our Lord gives us a very clear
statement in regard to divorce."
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