1. Traditional Wedding Vow
“And They Lived Happily Every After”
“Forsaking all others and pledging myself to you and you alone, I, Jack, take thee, Jill, to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, TILL DEATH DO US PART....”

2. God’s Law On Marriage
Marriage is permanent

3. Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

4. Romans 7:2
For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

5. 1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

6. God’s Law On Marriage
Marriage is permanent
Divorce is sinful

7. God Hates Divorce
Mal 2:14-16: 14Yet you say, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been witness Between you and the wife of your youth, With whom you have dealt treacherously; Yet she is your companion And your wife by covenant. 15But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth. 16“For the

8. God Hates Divorce
Lord God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one’s garment with violence,” Says the Lord of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treacherously.”

9. Jesus Condemned Divorce
Mt. 19:3-6: 3The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
Gen. 1:27
Gen. 2:24

10. Jesus Condemned Divorce
and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’ ? 6So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.

11. Mt. 19:6: 6So then, they are no longer two but one flesh
Mt. 19:6: 6So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
1 Cor. 7:10-11
10Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart [chorizo] from her husband. 11But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce [aphiemi] his wife.

12. God’s Law On Marriage Marriage is permanent Divorce is sinful
Remarriage is adultery

13. Remarriage Is Adultery
Divorcer
Lk. 16:18: 18 “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Mt. 5:32: 32 “But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife…causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.
Divorcee
Third Party

14. The Exception
Mt. 19:9: 9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

15. The Exception What Jesus Says What Jesus Means
Mt. 19:9: 9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
Mt. 19:9: 9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, for sexual immorality, and marries another, does not commit adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

16. The exception is given to the divorcer
The exception is not the rule
The Exception
Mt. 19:9: 9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
The exception is divorce for fornication

17. Marriage
For Better Or Worse

18. Marriage “For Better Or Worse”
Sickness or Injury
Economic Calamity
Incompatibility
Revulsion
A Better Prospect

19. Psa. 15
1Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill? 2He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart; 3He who does not backbite with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend; 4In whose eyes a vile person is despised, But he honors those who fear the Lord; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change….He who does these things shall never be moved.