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Focus on the Family: a true focus
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Part 3
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GOD's holy, perfect body was planned from the beginning, so He sought to teach us fidelity,
in marriage on the earth, as a type of fidelity to Him in the spiritual meaning also.
GOD, throughout the Bible, refers to sinners as harlots, adulterers, for rejecting His command
to be holy, perfect Gen17:1 Mat5:48 1Pet1:16, so cannot be one flesh, since still in Adam 1Cor15:22a.
GOD alone purifies, sanctifies us to be His holy, perfect body or bride, thru obedient faith Rom6,
but most fail to believe and obey, like Esau and Judas, face wrath, destruction, outer dark.
GOD repeatedly exhorts, warns us to separate ourselves from the sin of the world 2Cor6:14-18
but very few truly comply, so remain enemies of GOD Rom5:8,10 Jam4:4 1Jn2:15-17, see Hybels.
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GOD considers marriage very highly and expects strict fidelity, and refuses
to bless illegal alliances, in fact, in many cases they bring a curse upon themselves.
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Deut11..26 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and
a curse:
27 The blessing, if you obey the commandments of
the LORD your GOD which I command you today.
28 And the curse, if you do not obey the
commandments of the LORD your GOD, but turn aside
from the way which I command you today.
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Mat19..3 "Is it lawful for a
man to divorce his wife for
any reason?"
4 And He answered and said to
them, "Have you not read
that He who made at the
beginning 'made them male and
female,'
5 "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?'
6 "So then, they are no
longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what GOD has joined
together, let not man
separate."
7 They said to Him, "Why
then did Moses command to
give a certificate of
divorce, and to put her away?
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8 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.
9 "And I say to you,
whoever divorces his wife,
except for sexual immorality,
and marries another, commits
adultery; and whoever marries
her who is divorced commits
adultery."
Eph5..22 Wives, submit to your own
husbands, as to the LORD.
23 For the husband is head of
the wife, as also Christ is
head of the church; and He is
the Savior of the body.
24 Therefore, just as the
church is subject to Christ,
so the wives to their own
husbands in everything.
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25 Husbands, love your wives,
just as Christ also loved the
church and gave Himself for
her,
26 That He might sanctify and
cleanse her with the washing
of water in the word.
27 That He might present her
to Himself a glorious church,
not having spot or wrinkle or
any such thing, but that she
should be holy and without
blemish.
28 So husbands ought to love
their own wives as their own
bodies; he who loves his wife
loves himself.
29 For no one ever hated his
own flesh, but nourishes and
cherishes it, just as the
LORD the church.
30 For we are members of His
body, of His flesh and of His
bones.
31 "For this reason a
man shall leave his father
and mother and be joined to
his wife, and the two
shall become one
flesh."
32 This is a great mystery,
but I speak concerning Christ
and the church.
Gal3..28...there is neither male
nor female; for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.
Jn3..36 He who believes in the Son
has everlasting life; and he
who does not obey the Son
shall not see life, but the
wrath of GOD abides on him.
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Eph2..according to the prince of
the power of the air, the
spirit who now works in the
sons of disobedience,
3 Among whom also we all once
conducted ourselves in the
lusts of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the
flesh and of the mind, and
were by nature children of
wrath for because of these
things the wrath of GOD comes
upon the sons of disobedience.
Eph5..6 Let no one deceive you with
empty words, for because of
these things the wrath of GOD
comes upon the sons of
disobedience.
Col3..5 Therefore put to death your
members which are on the
earth: fornication,
uncleanness, passion, evil
desire, and covetousness,
which is idolatry.
6 Because of these things the
wrath of GOD is coming upon
the sons of disobedience.
2Thes1..8 In flaming fire taking
vengeance on those who do not
know GOD, and on those who do
not obey the gospel of our
LORD Jesus Christ.
9 These shall be punished
with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the LORD
and from the glory of His
power.
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