Divorce | Mark 10:1-12
Divorce Statistics (Wilkinson & Finkbeiner, 2020)
Today An Estimated 41% of First Marriages End in Divorce.
• That number goes up to 60% for Second Marriages and 73%for Third Marriages.
The Average Marriage Length in the US is 8.2 years.
• 20% of Marriages End within the First Five Years and Shoots Up to 32% within 10 years.
A Divorce takes Place in the US Every 13 Seconds.
• Going by This, 1,385 Divorces Occur in the time it takes to Finish a Wedding Reception.
Lack of Commitment is the Leading Cause of Divorces, with 75% of Couples Citing it as the Reason for Their Separation
• Couples who have been Living Together Prior to Marriage face a 40% increase in the Likelihood of Divorce.
Mark 10:9
9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mark 10:1
1 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.
Mark 10:1
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.
Mark 10:2-4
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
Mark 3:6
6 The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
Mark 10:2-4
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
24 “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 certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, 2 and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, 3 and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,4 then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Mark 10:2-4
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
Mark 10:5
5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
Mark 10:6-9
6 But 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] 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 5:31
31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
Mark 10:6
6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
Mark 10:6-9
6 But 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] 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mark 10:10-12
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Mark 10:5
5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
Covenant Hearts
Protecting Hearts
Restoring Hearts
Genesis 2:24
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Mark 10:9
9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Proverbs 4:23
23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Hebrews 3:12-13
12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
2 Corinthians 5:18
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
Romans 5:10
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.