Sharper Iron: Seeing Marriage as God Intends (Rebroadcast)

Rev. James Preus from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ottumwa, Iowa, studies Mark 10:1-12 with guest host Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller from Hope Lutheran Church in Aurora, Colorado. Today’s study covers the traveling Jesus, the institution of marriage, Moses’s words on divorce, and the current state of marriage. This is a rebroadcast from March 7, 2018.

Mark 10:1-12

Teaching About Divorce

10 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

²And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” ³He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” ⁵And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ⁶But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ⁷‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,^[a] ⁸and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

¹⁰And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.¹¹And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, ¹²and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”