Mariages Made in Heaven

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

Deuteronomy 24:1-2

“Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman, but she does not please him because he finds something objectionable about her, and so he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house. She then leaves his house and goes off to become another man’s wife.”

Matthew 19:3

“Some Pharisees came to him and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?'”

Genesis 2:24

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.”

Mark 10:6-9

“But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Mark 10:10-12

“Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, ‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.'”

Genesis 1:27

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Malachi 2:13-16

“You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning, because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor at your hand. You ask, ‘Why does he not?’ Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did not God make her both flesh and spirit? And what does the one God desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless to the wife of your youth, for I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel.”

Ephesians 5:23-28

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church.”

Colossians 3:18

“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”

Amos 3:3

“Can two walk together unless they be agreed?”

Mark 3:28

“Truly I tell you, all sins and blasphemies will be forgiven people, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”

Jeremiah 3:6-8

“Have you not seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, that went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and played the harlot? Yet I had planted her like a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then is she turned to degenerate plantings? And though she had committed adultery, and blood is in her hands, yet she returned not to me, says the Lord. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.”

Memorable Quotes

“If there be one willing soul, there’s nothing of no limit of what God can do in and through one soul fully surrendered to Him.”

“A Godly wife is as the presence of the Holy Spirit in a man’s life and is to be cherished above all other things.”

“Marriage is between a biological male and a biological female. Jesus affirms that male and female are foundational for marriage, and a marriage that includes something other than male and female is not a marriage in God’s eyes.”

“Unless you leave your family of origin, your family of origin will always haunt your family of choice.”

“What you ultimately marry is a mind. You’re marrying a mind with intellectual, spiritual, and emotional compatibility, because bodies will change over time.”

“The sexual expression of love in marriage is part of God’s gift to marriage. It is honorable and is the holy of holies—a private Garden of Eden into which no one else may enter in thought or deed.”

“Men, your wife places all her hopes and dreams for life in your hands when she walks down the aisle. You have a responsibility to honor that trust sacrificially.”

“A husband who loves his wife loves himself, for no one ever hates his own body but nourishes and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church.”

“Women want respect more than love. Men assume that if there’s physical intimacy, everything’s okay, but men want respect.”

“Divorce can be described as an act of violence in many ways. It is one of the most destructive things anyone can go through, and nobody comes out of divorce smelling of roses.”

“The Christian church is to be a place of healing for all people, not just for those who appear to have everything well and put together in life.”

“Fight for your marriages. Remember what it was like to watch your wife walk down the aisle when she put her dreams for life in your hands. If you need to repent, ask forgiveness tonight.”

“Marriage contains simultaneously the greatest possible opportunity for love and fulfillment and the greatest opportunity for pain and bitterness known to man.”

Other Quotations

Ellen G. White (implied reference)

“God is a God of order.”

Rabbinic Schools of Thought on Divorce (quoted in sermon)

– “The school of Shamai says a man may not divorce his wife unless he is found unchaste in her.”
– “The school of Hillel says he may divorce her even if she spoiled a dish for him.”
– “Rabbi Akiba says even if you found another fairer than she, you may divorce your wife.”