The Covenant Remains!

Ever notice how when a man and a woman want to get married, they go to God and have a church wedding? But when they want a divorce, they go to man? They go to church to say, "I do", but they go to court to say, "I quit!". They go to a judge, who is a man or a woman, whatever the case may be, and petition the court to dissolve God's Holy covenant of marriage by signing a piece of paper that decrees the marriage is terminated. Jesus said in Matthew 19:6, "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

"What GOD has joined together." What does that mean? That means when you stand before God on His altar before the man or woman of God and vow to be married to one another, God SEALS those vows in Heaven and establishes the covenant between you, your spouse and Him. God has literally joined you together when you pledged your vows to one another. Jesus said, "What God has joined together, let not MAN separate!" Now, what does that mean? That means simply this, what God has ordained, man has no authority to overturn. Regardless of what the world believes or says, when you go to court to divorce your spouse, you are going to man to overrule what God has established. You are going to man to overrule God Himself. And you can't do that. Even if you get a divorce decree from the court that says you are no longer married to each other, that in no way means that God acknowledges that. Unless you divorce your spouse for the reasons Jesus and Paul laid out in scripture.

Matthew 19:1-10, "Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there. The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘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 then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality (that would be adultery for example), and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Okay, Jesus says here that whoever divorces his wife, except for adultery, he will be guilty of adultery if he marries another woman. He causes his wife to commit adultery if she marries another man. And the people they marry will be guilty of adultery as well. How is that possible? Simple, because God never terminated the covenant between you and your wife. In God's eyes, you are still married. No matter what piece of paper you have from the courts, no matter what the laws of the land say, no matter what any judge, lawyer or legal expert will tell you, your marriage in still in force with God unless you divorced for adultery. That's the only back door Jesus gives us here. But there is another way out that Paul teaches us under the anointing of God and the Holy Spirit. Remember 2 Timothy 3:16 says, "All scripture is given by God by way of the Holy Spirit."

1 Corinthians 7:12-16, he says, "But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace. For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?"