Our paragraph topic is: (The question of divorce) Part 4.
From the beginning he made them according to his plan. He made them male and female. And his purpose was that they should be joined together as one flesh not as two separate flesh. He made them that they should be joined together for life and not that they should separate. For God told Adam to go forth and multiply. He wanted man to be fruitful. He wanted man to live in peace. He wanted man to reproduce and have dominion over the earth and all that was within it. But evil entered the world through deceit.
So we live in a world today that has changed. We live in a world that makes its own way. For God, our Father, created and set life in motion. But man through deceit of his wit and his own will has changed what God willed into what man wills. For it is through deceit that we exist in the world. It is through deceit that we live. It is through deceit that we think and believe, express our hopes and dreams, live out our passions and desires. For we do not the will of God our Father. Christ left us with this message: "Therefore now they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder."
Our Father in heaven gave us bonding. He gave us the rules. He gave us the reason. He gave us his purpose so that we would cleave to one another as male and female. He did not give us divorce. He did not give us separation. He did not give us strife, and anger, and frustration, and fear, and mistrust, and hate. Those things came from and through deceit. For it is through deceit that we live and breathe and act. It is through deceit that we believe in the world that we live in. It is through deceit that we are raised from childhood to believe in the world around us. And it is through deceit that we throw out the purpose of God and insert our own purpose.
Our purpose was to grow and multiply. Our purpose was to have dominion over the earth. Our purpose was to live in the knowledge of the Creator and give thanks and glory to him who made us. For through his love he gave man life. Through his love he created us. Through his goodness he brought us forth from nothingness and gave us existence. And it is through that knowledge of who we are in him that we find our purpose in this world.
Deceit opened the door to evil and through that open door came death. And since that time we have lost the knowledge of who we are. But Christ came that we may reclaim what we lost. Christ came that we may now reclaim the life that was lost. He came that we may rekindle the fire that was given to us from the beginning, the fire of truth, the fire of love, and the fire of peace. For we are children of God our Father. And it is he who we adore. It is he who we worship. It is he who we give all the praise and glory. And it is he who has given us the rules of life and not the world. For we were created male and female. For this cause we cleave to one another and become one flesh. What God our Father has joined together and let no man put asunder.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
