The title of the message is Answers to Questions regarding marriage and divorce, Part 4, and, what I want us to do is to go to the Gospel of Matthew and as we continue to work our way backwards, let's go to Matthew chapter 19. We'll be there for just a moment and then we'll go even further to Matthew chapter 5. Matthew chapter. 19 Verse 9.
Jesus, now in the context of this, I'm not gonna reread a lot of this because we've already been acquainted with some of the dialogue that we encountered in Mark. This is a parallel account, but let's look at verses 9 and 10. Jesus says, and I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery. Jesus makes this statement and you'll notice something different about this statement, and that is what is commonly called the exception clause, to Jesus' prohibition of divorce.
And you wanna underline that because this is a very important statement that Jesus is making. Whatever it's gonna mean. And we'll talk at length about that tonight. This is something that came out of Jesus' mouth and we need to be seriously considering this.
Whatever this means, it is absolutely authoritative and no one has any right to have a different view other than that which Jesus is espousing here and he says that anyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality and marries another woman commits adultery. Obviously the implication is if a man divorces his wife for the sin of immorality, because she's been guilty of the sin of immorality, whatever that means, and then he remarries another, what he's doing is not committing adultery. All right? That's obviously what that means....
