Title Divorce and Apostasy (Mal 02:10-16)
Content There are no unimportant words in what people say.
Since words are a person's character, above all, we must be careful with what we say and take responsibility for what we say.
However, it is even said that among the words of human beings, the marriage vows made at the wedding hall are sacred.
However, by law, Westerners, especially Americans, are not allowed to officiate at weddings except for pastors and lawyers.
Even if a lawyer has officiated, most people make it a rule to come to church and perform the ceremony of receiving blessings again, whether they believe it or not.
In the Protestant Church, there are two types of Holy Communion, Baptism and Holy Communion, but in the Catholic Church there are seven, including the wedding ceremony.
As such, the Church has accepted marriage as a very sacred and beautiful thing from time immemorial.
A marriage vow is a ceremony in which a man and a woman witness many saints before God and completely entrust themselves to the other person.
Pastor who officiates
“Will the bridegroom take this woman next to you as your wife, and will love this woman and take her as your wife, whether happy or sad, sick or healthy, as long as life is in this world!” You make an oath to the groom, and the same to the wife.
After the oath is completed, the pastor announces the marriage
“What God has joined together, no man can divide.” He nailed it.
What God has put together, these words are important.
There are many promises and vows in the world.
When men go to the military, they pledge allegiance.
Also, when a student goes to school, on the day of the entrance ceremony, the student representative makes an oath in front of the president to abide by the school rules.
However, these pledges are all temporary.
All pledges in the world are tentative pledges.
Once a soldier is discharged from the military, he no longer has to keep that oath.
But marriage vows are different.
The marriage vow must be kept until the time of death as long as there is life in this world.
That is why the marriage vows were made sacred.
The sin of betraying God and the sin of breaking the marriage vow are treated as the same thing.
A promise with God is like getting married to God, but breaking that promise is like getting a divorce. Marriage is precious before God.
Nevertheless, if you look at how degraded marital status in this era is, for example in the United States, one in seven divorced in the 1920s, one in six in the 1940s, one in four in the 1950s, and one in four in the 1970s One in three people got divorced.
In the 1990s, one in two expects to divorce.
Some of us may not believe this statistic when we see it, but this is the reality.
Marriage these days is often seen as a joke.
So, getting a divorce is easy.
Among them, there are weddings where they rent a plane and fall on a parachute and fall on a parachute, without taking any vows or officiating. Some people go to the top of a mountain to get married, wear swimsuits and get married at a swimming pool, and at the Unification Church, hundreds of people gather for a joint wedding. .
The wedding ceremony is only 15 minutes long and the officiating ceremony is done with a few hundred thousand won, so such weddings are unreliable and do not consider the marriage vows sacred.
The text of Malachi 2 points out two terrible sins, especially with regard to marriage.
1. gangbang
“Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD, whom he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god” (Mal 2:11b).
The text speaks of the fact that the Jerusalemites profaned holiness and married a man who worshiped a foreign god, in other words, about adultery.
what is horn A believer is bound to marry a believer, but these days, even elders and priests say that when choosing a bridegroom or bridegroom, non-believers are okay as long as they are healthy, smart, and have a strong workplace.
All you have to do is take it and evangelize.
But how can people living together under one roof live, with one serving God and the other serving as Satan's servant? So every day is a war.
We think it's too easy.
A believer must marry a believer.
Some people ask to officiate while marrying someone they don't believe in.
I have to go to America the day after tomorrow, and I will make you believe, so I ask you to officiate.
At the very least, you must confess and learn Jesus as your Savior in order to make the pastor's marriage vows.
That is why we must marry the saints before God.
2. Divorce
“I hate divorce, and those who cover their garments with abuse, says the LORD, the God of Israel.” (Mal 2:16a)
The Bible gives some lessons about divorce.
First, in Matthew 19:8, there is a scene in which Moses grants a divorce, and Moses tells us to divorce anyone who lives with another woman because we are stubborn and unclean.
However, some say that divorce is not desirable because unbelievers may have faith because of their spouse's beliefs.
Jesus teaches us in Matthew 5:32 that when a spouse commits adultery, they can be separated.
Therefore, it can be said that we can divorce on these biblical grounds.
But the book of Malachi says that the Lord hates divorce (2:16).
In the world, there are people who demand a divorce, and there are people who get divorced.
This is an issue that needs to be differentiated.
Even if you want to live together, you can't do that if the other side kicks you out.
However, it is not a virtuous thing for people who believe in Jesus to separate even though they can live together.
It is something that God hates.
Marriage is a God-given system, but the text defines it as a sin to divorce because of a bad personality, lack of money, or because of the mother-in-law.
The most important thing in marriage is chastity.
In the text, we are told not to leave a wife who was married when we were young, a woman we married for the first time, or a man.
Therefore, a marriage between a man and a woman should not involve any third party, such as a mother-in-law or a biological father.
It is saying that three-way intervention in chastity is not permitted.
How pure is today's Korean family? We are really deceived a lot.
If you go to a barbershop where men go, it's not a barbershop, it's a prostitute's den.
Not only that, but now, as they fall, sin creeps into the living room.
We must conscientiously examine how much our Korean families have fallen apart before God.
The purity of the home has reached a point of danger.
When the family collapses, the first thing we do is destroy our souls.
When the family collapses, the church collapses, and when the church collapses, this society ends.
1 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.”
We used to be children of Satan, and now we are all new creatures.
So it doesn't matter if you've been divorced or what you've done in the past.
Some people got divorced, but that was before they believed in Jesus.
Therefore, after believing in Jesus and becoming a new person, there is no need to talk about it.
We can be even worse when we are outside the Lord.
There are also people who say that a person who believes in Jesus and becomes a new person cannot get married in the church just because he or she has previously divorced.
But you can.
Since you have already become a new person, that marriage should be celebrated like the first wedding.
Dear brothers and sisters, I hope you know that a family in which the couple believes well is the happiest family.
Money and power do not exist and do not exist.
But faith is eternal.
It is the greatest happiness that human beings can have for a wife and husband to lead a good life of faith.
How beautiful it is to say that home is comfortable.
Therefore, if one side still does not believe, the first thing we should pray about is the matter of faith.
It is not the husband's job loss that is the problem, the wife's physical flaws are not the problem, and it is the urgent priority that their souls stand right before God.
A spouse's unbelief results in a divorce that God hates.
Therefore, marriage wrong from the start is a big problem.
God treated wrong marriages as idolatry.
We must keep our family sacred and holy before God.