Depravity and Grace in Divorce
Many take Christ’s words in Matthew 19:11 as only talking about the gift of celibacy – not marrying to focus on God. But Christ’s words have another aspect – if your heart is hard, you will not accept God’s restrictions on divorce and sleeping around. Here’s the passage in context. Matthew 19:3 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?” 4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them 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?” 8 He said to them, “Moses,...