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by: Debbie Galyen

03/31/2025

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“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?” (v4-5). The Pharisees came to Jesus with a tricky question about the legalities of divorce. But Jesus directed them to “the beginning” – God’s purpose for men and women before sin entered the world. Rather than focus on what was ‘permitted’, Jesus wanted them to remember what God desired.

The complications of life and “hard hearts” are part of reality, but Jesus teaches us to lift our eyes to “the kingdom of heaven” (v8,12,14). Remembering God’s good purposes re-orients us in his direction. 

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“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?” (v4-5). The Pharisees came to Jesus with a tricky question about the legalities of divorce. But Jesus directed them to “the beginning” – God’s purpose for men and women before sin entered the world. Rather than focus on what was ‘permitted’, Jesus wanted them to remember what God desired.

The complications of life and “hard hearts” are part of reality, but Jesus teaches us to lift our eyes to “the kingdom of heaven” (v8,12,14). Remembering God’s good purposes re-orients us in his direction. 

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