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Breaking
Up is
Hard
On You
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The
Kingdom
Handbook
The Sermon on the MountMatthew 5-7
The Jesus Curriculum
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KingdomCode
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D
ivorce is Permitted
KingdomCode
It has been said, Anyone who divorces his wife
must give her a certificate of divorce.
Matthew 531
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• divorce

If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing
to him because he finds something indecent about
her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,
gives it to her and sends her from his house,
Deuteronomy 241
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• divorce

and her second marriage also ends then her
first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed
to marry her again.
Deuteronomy 244
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B
ut Not for Any Reason
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But I tell you that anyone who divorces his
wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes
her to become an adulteress,
Matthew 532
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B
ut Not for Any Reason
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and anyone who marries the divorced woman
commits adultery.
Matthew 532
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D
ivorce is Permitted
External Im allowed to divorce! Internal motiv
e, commitment
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G
ods Design for Marriage
KingdomCode
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They
asked, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his
wife for any and every reason?
Matthew 193
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G
ods Design for Marriage
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Havent you read, he replied, that at the
beginning the Creator made them male and
female,
Matthew 194
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G
ods Design for Marriage
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and said, For this reason a man will leave his
father and mother and be united to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh?
Matthew 195
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G
ods Design for Marriage
KingdomCode
So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore
what God has joined together, let man not
separate.
Matthew 196
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G
ods Design for Marriage

• Life-long Commitment
• Faithfulness
• Work out Your Difficulties

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G
ods Provision for Weakness

• When ThingsWont Work

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G
ods Provision for Weakness
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Why then, they asked, did Moses command
that a man give his wife a certificate of
divorce and send her away?
Matthew 197
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G
ods Provision for Weakness
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Jesus replied, Moses permitted you to divorce
your wives because your hearts were hard. But it
was not this way from the beginning.
Matthew 198
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• divorce

A wife must not separate from her husband. But
if she does, she must remain unmarried or else
be reconciled to her husband.
1 Corinthians 710-11
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G
ods Provision for Weakness

• When ThingsWont Work

• Unfaithfulness

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G
ods Provision for Weakness
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I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife,
except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries
another woman commits adultery.
Matthew 199
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G
ods Provision for Weakness
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And if she divorces her husband and marries
another man, she commits adultery."
Mark 1012
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G
ods Provision for Weakness

• When ThingsWont Work

• Unfaithfulness

• Release andRecovery

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• divorce

If any brother has a wife who is not a believer
and she is willing to live with him, he must
not divorce her.
1 Corinthians 712
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• divorce

And if a woman has a husband who is not a
believer and he is willing to live with her,
she must not divorce him.
1 Corinthians 713
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• divorce

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A
believing man or woman is not bound in such
circumstances.
1 Corinthians 715
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G
ods Provision for Weakness

• When ThingsWont Work

• Unfaithfulness

• Release andRecovery

• Forgiveness from God
• Forgiveness for Others
• Freedom to Remarry

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