Divorce - Playing Games With God's Commandments

The "letter" of marriage is legal rights… the "spirit" of marriage is love, commitment, unity, faithfulness.

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Divorce—Here Jesus appears to be forbidding a practice that the OT permits… Deut.24:1: "When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house." The problem was the Jews played games with the word indecency such that it could mean anything from sexual sin to being a bad cook or just ugly… in other words they could divorce her for any reason. Jesus says this should not be so.

What’s the heart issue here? Something God hates… faithlessness, selfishness, hardness of heart. The letter of marriage is legal rights… the spirit of marriage is love, commitment, unity, faithfulness.