Our paragraph topic is: (The question of divorce) Part 9.
Christ told his disciples that they should not commit adultery. He told them that anyone who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery. Moses allowed the Jews to give a written notice in order to divorce their wives or husbands. Accordingly, anyone could give any reason, in written notice, and divorce their spouses. Anyone could give any excuse to separate from their spouses so that they could marry another.
Christ told his disciples that this is not the case. God created them male and female for a purpose. He created them that they should be together and not to separate. This how he created them. And Christ told them that the only reason for separation, the only reason for a divorce is, for immorality. So if one decides to remarry to one who has been put away by written notice except for immorality, then one commits adultery. And he told them: "And he who marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery."
God created them male and female that they would bond together for a purpose. He created them in his image and likeness. What is it about this commandment that marks us? What is it about this rule that prohibits us, that binds us, that creates a boundary that we must not cross and why? Two people, male and female, come together for a reason, for a purpose, for love, for happiness. For it is in the moment of commitment that we are most happy to be joined together. So this commitment to stay together, has meaning, has purpose, has happiness? Why is it that we find reasons to separate when there was such a cause to come together?
We live in a society that brings male and female together. We grow up, become adults, set out into the world to secure a place for ourselves, and then we have strong physical drives to mate, to bond, to become one. We are driven physically, both male and female. We are compelled, both male and female. Our physical makeup, both male and female, drives us to come together. And it is that internal drive, that physical compulsion, that hides, that overshadows, the spiritual being that we are. For when we are fully engulfed in the physical, when we are fully experiencing the physical nature of bonding, we are consumed in the physical pleasure of our physical beings, like a drug that takes us to a height of pleasure that we have never known. And it is that full experience of the physical that compels us to want more physical, to want more pleasure, to want more passion. And it is that physical passion that turns us away from the spiritual beings that we are.
We are spiritual beings experiencing the physical realm through our physical bodies. We live in the physical and we die in the physical and transition to the spiritual. We leave the physical behind and become the spiritual beings that we are, transforming into butterflies from our cocoons. Yet the physical holds us. The physical binds us. The physical wants to keep us, even though we are spiritual. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not transgress this rule least you commit to the physical and surrender the spirit. For through this transgression one becomes engulfed in the physical. Through this transgression one crosses the line into passion, to live in the physical experience of bonding. Through this transgression one opens the door to the physical experience of the world and closes the door to the spirit, putting it in the closet away from the truth of the knowledge of who you are.
We are created in his image and likeness. But evil wants us to deny our spirit and accept our physical as reality. We are created by God our Father who wants to love us and protect us. But evil wants us to deny him. He is a loving God. He is a merciful God. He is a forgiving God and Father. Our hearts must be open to his love, to his mercy, to his forgiveness. Come! Find the truth of who you are in Christ. He forgives those who have transgressed. He is merciful to those who seek repentance. He is loving to those who seek his love. He is joyous to those who rejoice in his words. And he is bountiful to those who know him and seek to do his will here on earth. Seek the truth of who you are and you will know the light of the Holy Spirit that will be your guide. Open the door to your heart and he will come and reside with you all the days of your life.
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.
Christ told his disciples that they should not commit adultery. He told them that anyone who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery. Moses allowed the Jews to give a written notice in order to divorce their wives or husbands. Accordingly, anyone could give any reason, in written notice, and divorce their spouses. Anyone could give any excuse to separate from their spouses so that they could marry another.
Christ told his disciples that this is not the case. God created them male and female for a purpose. He created them that they should be together and not to separate. This how he created them. And Christ told them that the only reason for separation, the only reason for a divorce is, for immorality. So if one decides to remarry to one who has been put away by written notice except for immorality, then one commits adultery. And he told them: "And he who marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery."
God created them male and female that they would bond together for a purpose. He created them in his image and likeness. What is it about this commandment that marks us? What is it about this rule that prohibits us, that binds us, that creates a boundary that we must not cross and why? Two people, male and female, come together for a reason, for a purpose, for love, for happiness. For it is in the moment of commitment that we are most happy to be joined together. So this commitment to stay together, has meaning, has purpose, has happiness? Why is it that we find reasons to separate when there was such a cause to come together?
We live in a society that brings male and female together. We grow up, become adults, set out into the world to secure a place for ourselves, and then we have strong physical drives to mate, to bond, to become one. We are driven physically, both male and female. We are compelled, both male and female. Our physical makeup, both male and female, drives us to come together. And it is that internal drive, that physical compulsion, that hides, that overshadows, the spiritual being that we are. For when we are fully engulfed in the physical, when we are fully experiencing the physical nature of bonding, we are consumed in the physical pleasure of our physical beings, like a drug that takes us to a height of pleasure that we have never known. And it is that full experience of the physical that compels us to want more physical, to want more pleasure, to want more passion. And it is that physical passion that turns us away from the spiritual beings that we are.
We are spiritual beings experiencing the physical realm through our physical bodies. We live in the physical and we die in the physical and transition to the spiritual. We leave the physical behind and become the spiritual beings that we are, transforming into butterflies from our cocoons. Yet the physical holds us. The physical binds us. The physical wants to keep us, even though we are spiritual. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not transgress this rule least you commit to the physical and surrender the spirit. For through this transgression one becomes engulfed in the physical. Through this transgression one crosses the line into passion, to live in the physical experience of bonding. Through this transgression one opens the door to the physical experience of the world and closes the door to the spirit, putting it in the closet away from the truth of the knowledge of who you are.
We are created in his image and likeness. But evil wants us to deny our spirit and accept our physical as reality. We are created by God our Father who wants to love us and protect us. But evil wants us to deny him. He is a loving God. He is a merciful God. He is a forgiving God and Father. Our hearts must be open to his love, to his mercy, to his forgiveness. Come! Find the truth of who you are in Christ. He forgives those who have transgressed. He is merciful to those who seek repentance. He is loving to those who seek his love. He is joyous to those who rejoice in his words. And he is bountiful to those who know him and seek to do his will here on earth. Seek the truth of who you are and you will know the light of the Holy Spirit that will be your guide. Open the door to your heart and he will come and reside with you all the days of your life.
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.
