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Seminar. What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce. What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce. “ So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matthew 19:6.
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What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matthew 19:6
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce Marriage is a “great mystery”. (Eph 5:32) We come to the altar as two, and we leave as one!
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce • Today, divorce has become an epidemic! • 50% of American marriages end in divorce! • 65% of second marriages suffer the same fate!
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “And 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.” Matthew 19:9 Christ’s Exception:
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.” Acts 17:30
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce • Marriage Experiment says:“I’ll try it out, and I hope it works.” • Marriage Commitment says:“I’m making a commitment for life, and I’ll do whatever it takes to make it work!”
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed.” Psalm 57:7
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “Awake, o north wind, and come, o south! Blow upon my garden, That its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its pleasant fruits.” Song of Solomon 4:16
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce A garden takes a constant care: thought, time and effort. So does a marriage!
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce Words of love: Husband says, “How beautiful you are my darling! Oh how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves, your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.All beautiful you are my, my darling, there is no flaw in you.”Song of Solomon 4:1,7, NIV
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce Words of love: Wife says, “My beloved is white and ruddy, chief among ten thousand. His mouth is most sweet, yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!”Song of Solomon 5:10,16
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce In addition to words of love, we need the acts of love: a kiss, a card, a gift, a flower –not only on birthday and anniversaries, but on any day of the year!
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce James 1:19 Col. 4:6 1 Problem 5 Interpreting 6 Empathizing 2Feelings LISTENER SPEAKER 7 Mirroring 3 Wants 8 “You” Statements 4 “I” Statements 9 Bargaining TOGETHER
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. For even Christ did not please Himself.” Romans 15:1-3
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce • The root of every marital problem is“self first”James 4: 1, 2 • The solution to each conflict is“spouse first”
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.” Matthew 18:19
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “Jesus looked at them and said to them, ‘With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’” Matthew 19:26
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce In Eden, another union was consummated! On the sixth day of creation, Adam and Eve were joined together. On the seventh day, Christ and His Sabbath were also united together. In God’s plan, Christ and His Sabbath are united forever.
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce It is sometimes said that Christ and the Sabbath are united in the Old Testament, but divorced in the New! Let us stop at three places where, it is believed a divorce took place.
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce The Cross When Christ was Crucified, was the weekly Sabbath crucified with Him?
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.” Colossians 2:14-17
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce Christ’s “Shadow” Before the Savior came in human form, His shadow was the sanctuary and its services.
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce This ceremonial system had seven annual holy days like Passover, Pentecost andthe Day of Atonement. They occurred once a year and were called Sabbaths.
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your Sabbath ” Leviticus 23:27,32
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce When Jesus died, this whole system with its animal sacrifices and its annual Sabbaths came to an end.
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce “It is finished!” John 19:30 “The veil of the temple was torn in two.” Matthew 27:50,51
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce No more Candlestick, for Christ is Light of the world! Altar, for Calvary was the altar!
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce Priest, for Jesus is our High Priest! Lamb, for Christ is the Lamb of God! Passover, for Christ is our Passover!
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce So, at Calvary, there was No Divorce! The Savior and His Sabbath are still married! And what God has joined Together …
What God Has Joined Together! Six Steps to Prevent Divorce There are only eight verses of the New Testament that mention the “first day of the week.” Five of them (Matt. 28:1, Mark 16:2, Mark 16:9, Luke 24:1 & John 20:1) give us the Resurrection story, but tell of no meeting. Let us examine the other three.
