New Testament Doctrine On Marriage, Divorce, Marriage

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New Testament Doctrine OnMarriage, Divorce,
Marriage

• What did the Old Testament Law Of Moses teach in
  the Old Testament age?
• What does the New Testament of Christ teach today?

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Gods Universal Law For Marriage

• Gods original and universal law for marriage was
  first revealed in Genesis 2.
• This non- covenant law has reigned over all men
  in all nations since Adam Eve.
• This law has been repeated in all covenant laws
  revealed in the Patriarchal, Mosaical and New
  Covenant ages.

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Gods Original And Universal Law For Marriage Had
No Divorce Law

• Contained no law for divorce in the Patriarchal
  age of Genesis 2.
• First covenant law for divorce was given by Moses
  to Israel in Deuteronomy 241-4.
• This Old Testament Mosaical law for divorce was
  not given to any other people. It was for Old
  Testament Israel only!

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What did the Old Testament Law of Moses teach
on divorce?

• Deuteronomy 241
• When a man hath taken a wife, and married her,
  and it come to pass that she find no favour in
  his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness
  in her then let him write her a bill of
  divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send
  her out of his house. 2And when she is departed
  out of his house, she may go and be another
  mans wife.

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What was uncleanness?

• Strongs definition
• H6172
• ????
• ?ervah
• er-vaw'
• From H6168 nudity, literally (especially the
  pudenda external female sex organ, vulva) or
  figuratively (disgrace, blemish) - nakedness,
  shame, sexual unclean (-ness).
• (Expanded definition from other language
  authorities.)

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Moses And Christ Taught SameOld Testament
Doctrine On MDM

• Matthew 199 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall
  put away his wife, except it be for fornication,
  and shall marry another, committeth adultery and
  whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit
  adultery.
• Uncleanness fornication both words
  mean/include sexual immorality.

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What is fornication?

• Strongs definition
• G4202
• p???e?a
• porneia
• por-ni'-ah
• From G4203 harlotry (including adultery and
  incest) figuratively idolatry - fornication.
• Webster any unlawful intercourse

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Difference between fornication and adultery

• Fornication -- sexual intercourse between
  unmarried persons.
• Orsexual intercourse between one unmarried
  person and one married.
• Unmarried people commit fornication.
• Married people commit adultery.

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Difference between fornication and adultery

• Adultery is a sin against ones own marriage
  covenant/vows or spouse.
• Adultery unlawful sexual intercourse by a
  married person with another person married or
  unmarried. When one sexually adulterates his
  own marriage covenant.
• Adultery can only be committed by a married
  person.

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Why Matthew 19 Belongs To TheOld Testament Law
Of Moses

• Because Jesus the Jewish Messiah -- was
  promised only to Old Testament Israel (Isaiah
  96).
• Because Jesus was sent in the flesh to teach
  only the Old Testament nation of Israel (Matt.
  1524).
• Because Christ was born under the Old Testament
  law of Moses (Gal. 44).
• Because Christ lived his whole life (33 years)
  under the Old Testament law of Moses.
• Because everything he taught was under and a part
  of the Old Testament law of Moses.
• Because during his lifetime he fulfilled all of
  the Old Testament law of Moses (Matt. 517-18
  Luke 2444-45).

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Why Matthew 19 Belongs To TheOld Testament Law
Of Moses

• Because Jesus declared 14 times in MMLJ/BC that
  he was teaching the Old Testament law of Moses
  not the New Testament gospel.
• Because more than 100 times in MMLJ/BC Jesus
  declared that he was teaching the Old Testament
  law of Moses.
• No once, in MMLJ/BC, while Jesus often
  prophesied of the coming of the New Testament
  age, he declared he was teaching the Old
  Testament law of Moses, henever stated that he
  was teaching New Testament doctrine.
• In MMLJ/BC, Jesus was an Old Testament prophet
  and Old Testament Israelite he was a member
  of the Old Testament kingdom of Israel, for at
  that time, because the New Testament kingdom had
  not yet been established on earth, he was not a
  member of the New Covenant kingdom or church of
  Christ.
• During the time of MMLJ/BC, Jesus was not a New
  Testament Christian, he never used the word
  Christian. He was not a New Testament
  evangelist, he never preached the New Testament
  gospel, he never produced one Christian before
  the cross for the New Testament age had not yet
  begun.

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Matthew 193-12 like 1916-22 is Old Testament
teaching of the law of Moses!

• Matthew 193 Is it lawful according to the Old
  Testament law of Moses.
• The question for every cause taught by the
  rabbis
• 1917 keep the commandments
• Every word of Matthew 19 is speaking about the
  Old Testament law of Moses!

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Christs New Testament law for Marriage, Divorce,
Marriage

• 1 Corinthians 727-28 after the cross -- is
  simple and easy to understandif it is not first
  confused by his Old Testament teaching before
  the cross -- in Matthew 19. And
• If it is not complicated by our 15 false
  brotherhood doctrinal traditions on MDM
  generated over the past 100 years.

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Moses And Christ Taught The Same Old Testament
Law or Doctrine On Marriage, Divorce And Marriage

• Moses original law on divorce and marriage in
  Deuteronomy 241-2.
• Rabbis false interpretations and traditions
  corrupted Moses law between 580BC and time of
  Christ in 33AD.
• Christ defends Moses original law on divorce in
  Matthew 19 in answering the Pharisees questions
  about divorce and marriage under the law of Moses.

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What Jesus declared about his teaching in MMLJ/BC

• Jesus testified that his teaching in Matthew,
  Mark, Luke and John before the cross was not
  his revelation of New Testament doctrinebut the
  continued revelation of his Fathers Old
  Testament doctrine of the law of Moses.
• John 716 Jesus answered them, and said, My
  doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

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Christ continued to teach that MMLJ/BC is not New
Testament doctrine

• John 434 My meat is to do the will of him that
  sent me, and to finish his work.
• John 638 38For I came down from heaven, not to
  do mine own will, but the will of him that sent
  me.
• John 174 I have glorified thee on earth I have
  finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

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Difference BetweenOld Testament limited
commissionNew Testament great commission

• O.T. limited commission given only to O.T.
  Israel
• Matthew 105 Go not into the way of the
  Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans
  enter ye not 6But go rather to the lost sheep of
  the house of Israel.
• This command applied only to O.T. Israel!

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Christs Old Testament Mission Before The Cross
In The Old Testament Age Of MMLJ/BC -- To Only
Old Testament Israel

• Matthew 1524 I am sent only to the lost sheep
  of the house of Israel.
• Christ came to fulfill (Matthew 517), end
  (Romans 104 and abolish the Old Testament law
  of Moses Ephesians 212-15).
• Christ nailed the Old Testament law of Moses to
  his cross (Colossians 214). The Old Testament
  law of Moses ended -- not when Christ was born
  but when he died on the cross!

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• Romans 74 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are
  become dead to the law by the body of Christ
• Romans 104 For Christ is the end of the law for
  righteousness to every one that believeth

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• Law was done away- abolished by Christ
• 2 Cor. 37, 13-14 7But if the ministration of
  death, written and engraven in stones, was
  gloriousfor the glory of his countenance which
  glory was to be done away 13And not as Moses,
  which put a veil over his face, that the children
  of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of
  that which is abolished 14But their minds were
  blinded for until this day remaineth the same
  veil untaken away in the reading of the old
  testament which veil is done away in Christ.

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• No justification by the law of Moses today!
• Galatians 216 Knowing that a man is not
  justified by the works of the law, but by the
  faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in
  Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the
  faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law
  for by the works of the law shall no flesh be
  justified.

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• Any New Testament Christian today who seeks to
  keep any part of the Old Testament law of Moses
  falls from New Testament grace.
• Galatians 54 3For I testify again to every man
  that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do
  the whole law. 4Christ is become of no effect
  unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the
  law ye are fallen from grace.

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• By or at the cross, Christ abolished all parts of
  the Old Testament law of Moses.
• Ephesians 215 Having abolished in his flesh the
  enmity, even the law of commandments contained in
  ordinances for to make in himself of twain one
  new man, so making peace

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• At Christs death, he nailed the Old Testament
  law of Moses -- to the cross.
• Colossians 214 Blotting out the handwriting of
  ordinances that was against us, which was
  contrary to us, and took it out of the way,
  nailing it to his cross When Christ diedthe
  law died! Christ was the end of the law of
  Moses!

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• New Covenant of Christ in Acts 2 through
  Revelation 22 is a better covenant!
• Hebrews 86-8 6But now hath he obtained a more
  excellent ministry, by how much also he is the
  mediator of a better covenant, which was
  established upon better promises. 7For if that
  first covenant had been faultless, then should no
  place have been sought for the second. 8For
  finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the
  days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new
  covenant with the house of Israel and with the
  house of Judah

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• New Covenant could not be revealed or begin until
  after the death of Christ!
• Hebrews 916-17 For where a testament is, there
  must also of necessity be the death of the
  testator. 17For a testament is of force after men
  are dead otherwise it is of no strength at all
  while the testator liveth. More proof that
  MMLJ/BC was not and is not New Testament doctrine!

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When Did The Old Testament Age And Law Of Moses
End?

• At the cross Christ took away the old covenant of
  the law of Moses, and at Acts 2 he established
  the New Covenant with the church of Christ.
• Hebrews 109-10 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do
  thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that
  he may establish the second. 10By the which will
  we are sanctified through the offering of the
  body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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Matthew 19 Ended When The O.T. Law Of Moses
Ended

• Christs teaching of the Old Testament law of
  Moses for marriage, divorce and marriage in
  Matthew 19 ended -- was abolished -- when
  Christ died on the cross.
• Nothing could be clearer from the teaching of the
  Scriptures!

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Matthew 19 has always been a part of the Old
Testament law of Moses!

• Matthew 19, along with Christs teaching of the
  Old Testament law of Moses in MMLJ/BC, and all of
  the fifteen traditional doctrines on marriage,
  divorce and marriage originating in Roman
  Catholicism, churches of Christ and other
  religious denominations -- has never been a part
  of the New Testament!
• It is a sin to teach Matthew 19 and sectarian
  traditions as New Covenant doctrine!

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What Does The New Testament Teach On Marriage,
Divorce, Marriage?

• There are only two verses of Scripture in the New
  Testament that deal with MDM.
• 1 Corinthians 727-28 Art thou bound unto a
  wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from
  a wife? seek not a wife. 28But and if thou marry,
  thou hast not sinned and if a virgin marry, she
  hath not sinned.

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What Does The New Testament Teach On Marriage,
Divorce, Marriage?

• New Covenant law for marriage and divorce, like
  all other New doctrine -- applies only to New
  Testament Christians, it does not apply to
  aliens/non-Christians.
• 1 Corinthians 726 revealed the social upheaval
  that made all that leads to marriage/divorce
  difficult.
• 1 Corinthians 727-28 shows that once divorce
  occurs (for what ever reason), there is no sin by
  either party in the divorce. Christ says they
  (neither husband nor wife) have not sinned

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What Does The New Testament Teach On Marriage,
Divorce, Marriage?

• Christians that are loosed or divorced from
  their previous marriage -- without regard to the
  reason or cause -- are free to marry
  againWITHOUT SIN!
• There is no reason or cause (such as
  fornication) required for a divorce between
  Christians in this New Testament age.
• This means that second marriages are as
  acceptable to God as first marriage. Second
  marriages are as sinless as first marriages!

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Words And Doctrines Not Found In The New
Testament

• There are more than 30 words and phrases used by
  traditionalists among churches of Christ to
  define their teaching on marriage, divorce and
  marriage but these words ARE NOT FOUND IN THE
  NEW TESTAMENT!
• Living in adultery, adulterous marriages,
  innocent party, guilty party, etc., are words
  not found in the New Testamenttherefore these
  words and phrases cannot possibly be the basis
  for New Testament doctrine!

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Our Biggest Doctrinal Mistake

• Following the Roman Catholic heresy of the middle
  ages and Protestant error, many churches of
  Christ have adopted the same false doctrine that
  one must have fornication as the only reason
  for divorce.
• This doctrine was wrong then and it is wrong now!
• While Christ seeks to keep Christian marriages
  together, in a failed marriage, he requires no
  specific cause or reason for divorce in a
  failed marriage.
• Churches of Christ must follow the teaching of
  the New Testament in Acts 2 through Revelation 22
  not the false teaching erroneous practice of
  sectarian churches. This is and continues to be
  -- wrong, wrong, wrong!

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Christs New Testament Conclusion

• Christ encourages husbands and wives to remain
  married and bless the family and society
  (Ephesians 520-33 Hebrews 134).
• New Testament teaching on MDM applies only to
  Christians in the Lords new covenant church
  it does not apply to alien sinners
  (non-Christians).
• Christ does not prohibit divorce or force failed
  marriages to remain intact.
• New Testament does not require a necessary
  cause for divorce.
• Christ knows that not all marriages will succeed
  and provides forgiveness in all divorces.

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Christs New Testament Conclusion

• Again, when divorce occurs among Christians for
  what ever reason, Christ and the apostle Paul
  teach that the then divorced -- but unmarried
  Christians may marry again without sin (1
  Corinthians 726-28).
• Thus, second marriages are as sinless and
  acceptable to God as first marriages.