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Only one Kingdom will last forever
Jesus was full of grace and truth
Matthew 5:27-28
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 lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Religious minimums will never lead to Kingdom maximums
Matthew 5:31-32
31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 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 19:3-6
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.”
God’s Intention for Marriage: one man + one woman = strong bond
Matthew 19:7
They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”
Matthew 19:8-9
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 19:10
The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”
Matthew 19:11
But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.
Marriage is more given to us for sanctification than satisfaction
Neither romance nor sexuality will satisfy your soul
