Marriage A Joke

 

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The enemy of our God has made marriage a joke. He has made it a punchline. It began in the sitcoms and stand-up comedy routines. We laughed it right into our homes, minds, and hearts.

The enemy of our God made marriage a joke and then he enticed the world to make divorce easy and acceptable.

America bought it… and the church accepted it.

Now those who don’t want lumped in with the divorce for “incompatibility” or “inconvenience” or “I’m just not in love with them anymore” suffer shame, abuse, and condemnation to hold together a dangerous life-threatening marriage or suffer these because they finally did choose divorce.

And all those who bought the lie, that divorce was a quick, easy, harmless solution to a rough patch in life have now given the enemy his perfect tool to justify in the minds and to entice the world to believe another lie. The lie that there is nothing wrong with homosexual relationships.

America has bought it… and the “church” is accepting it.

The enemy of our God now uses the divorce rate of one-man-one-woman marriage to condone and promote homosexual relationships.

From lie to lie… the enemy of God has taken his time, spun his web, laid down his crumbs, and those who walk not by faith have followed their flesh and fell right into the miry clay pit of death.

To condone and accept homosexual marriage is to condone and accept a person’s eternal condemnation. Christ did not come to this earth and die for the sins of the world to send people to hell… He came to offer them truth and life. He did not condemn the sinner, but He did not walk away and tell them that it was okay either.

He spoke truth… then they had to chose to accept it or ignore it. He remained kind. He maintained compassion. He still offered salvation but He did not bow down to the lie. He willingly suffered the shame of the cross, the cursings of the masses, the plottings of society’s powerful, the betrayal of friends in order to stand on truth and not be moved or swayed… no matter the cost. Our eternal souls were worth it to Him.

Marriage belongs to God.

He created it.

Not the state. Not the federal government.

It was not until the last century that the state got involved in any marriage. Their was no state tax to pay, no legal paper to sign and put on file at the courthouse, no blood test required. It was two people going before God and standing publicly before the witness of their families, that they would become one flesh… until death did them part.

No law had to be passed to make it binding.

God put it together and no man or court could separate it. Personally I think the church needs to separate and return to the covenant. The states and federal government might put together whatever unions their sad little laws can concoct but those who carry the name of Christ need to remember their union is one created by God, not man, it is one man and one woman for one life, it is a covenant not a contract.

Divorce was acceptable in the Old Testament because of the hardness of our hearts. There was no indwelling of the Holy Spirit… there was only the looking forward to the cross. Divorce was allowed as a picture to illustrate God’s divorce from Israel when the hardness of their heart led them to be unfaithful, uncommitted, unloving, and adulterous to their God.

When you look at the saints of God, how many of those recorded in Scripture were divorced? There was only one estranged marriage and that was Hosea… and God had Hosea return to his unfaithful wife and draw her back into faithfulness with his forgiveness toward her, his grace for her, with his unconditional love for her.

Just as God will do with His Israel.

If you carry the name of Christ, you fully possess Him and the power of God dwells within you and your heart is no longer hard… if you indeed belong to Him. You have the power to love, the strength to forgive, the faith to trust, the wisdom to be sure of a commitment before a covenant is formed… counting the cost before you say “I do” and continuing to count that cost as you live out your covenant in faith.

Yet fully desiring to say “I do” because in the bonds of marriage the image of Christ can be clearly displayed to a dying world.
Church… those who carry the name of Christ… you paint a picture with your life. You lead with your life… where are you leading those who watch you?

Do you claim to be a Christian yet have sex outside of the bonds of marriage? Where are you leading that one you are choosing to have sex with? Can you really claim to love them… can you really claim to love God… while grabbing hold of a hand and dancing them straight towards the pit of eternal death for an orgasm?

Especially if that one you are with claims not to be a Christian… is this how you think you can actually lead them to Christ and life… when you are the one who is supposed to know that sin leads to death… and only death?

Come on people, its quite simple.

Either God’s Word is God’s Word or it is not… if you believe Him then obey Him. Your eternity depends on it and the eternity of all those watching you.