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Marriage And Divorce

Marriage And Divorce Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. It is a blessing to be in the Will of our Father in heaven, and to be in His good Will, doing the things that please Him every day. I want to talk just a little bit about marriage, because that is something the Lord put on my heart. The last few days when I woke up in the morning, He was speaking to me something in regards to marriage, and what it means to be in a godly marriage and have a godly spouse. It's a blessing to have a wife that follows the Lord and is a blessing to be a husband that is in submission to the Holy Spirit. Something that a lot of couples don't understand, is not just love will carry you through, I mean, the kind of sensual love that the world thinks of. The world thinks that if they just fall in love together, then everything will be OK. But if you look statistically, e.g., the United States, about four out of ten marriages end in divorce, so approaching 50% of marriages end in divorce. Now, that includes Christians. So just because you're a Christian and you say that you're in love, because you've been dating this girl, or you've been dating this guy, does not mean that you're going to have a successful marriage. We know from the scripture that God hates divorce, and that when we become married, the two of us become one flesh. But the thing that people don't understand is, when you become married, it's easy to become one flesh, but it's not easy to become one in spirit. So, when you get married, you have your sexual relations, you have children, you figure out how to have the same bank account. You figure out how to do life together. And in a sense, you start thinking like each other and you start imagining that everything is fine. But a lot of people, after they've been 5, 10, 20 years married, they end in divorce. And they started to figure out that the small things in their life that were differences that they may have noticed, but looked over at the beginning, were bigger problems than they thought. And they realized just that immature kind of love they had in the beginning couldn't carry them through. Ultimately, they never became one in spirit. There's only one way to become truly one in spirit, and that is through the Spirit of the living God. There are many different spirits in the world, different spirits of lust, different spirits of alcohol, drugs, greed, all sorts of impure spirits, right? But there is only one Holy Spirit. And the way to receive the Holy Spirit and to become one in spirit individually but also in marriage, is to be born again. It's very important, if you are a man and you are dating someone, that you very first figure out your relationship with Jesus Christ, and that you truly are in submission to the Holy Spirit. A lot of marriages, even Christian marriages, will end in divorce because the man of that relationship never figured out how to be a man. He idolized his girlfriend from the time he was in high school. And when he got married, he was scared to be a man, because he knew that if he stands up for the truth, his girlfriend, his fiancée, and now his wife will divorce him. So, he just doesn't stand up for what is right. And many men do not have a backbone. They haven't been born again. They haven't received the Holy Spirit with power. They are lukewarm Christians at best, that have never received power from God. They don't have spiritual gifts. And because they are not following God, their wife will not follow them. This is a big problem, and this is a reason so many marriages end in divorce. It's because men are not being men. If men would be men, and if they would fully submit to God, and cast their crowns before God, and if they would put themselves at the feet of Jesus Christ, then the Lord would work with them. At the beginning of my marriage, I knew either I was gonna have a wife in a relationship that was solid, or I was going to lose my wife and my relationship from the very beginning. And that's because at the very beginning of my relationship, I had already surrendered to the Lord. I started going through the fire, started going through persecution for my faith. I was getting tried by people in the church. People were upset that I was thinking about leaving organized church. And I wanted to know for sure if my wife would follow me as I follow Jesus, or if she would follow the way of tradition and dead religion and the way of her family. And by the grace of God, my wife chose to follow me and be in submission to me, as I was in submission to God. But I knew that it would be a hard decision for her, and I also knew that I couldn't sugar coat the situation. I couldn't just say, “it's going to be easier in church, so let's stay in church, because I know it'll make you and everyone else happy and feel more secure.” I had to do what was more insecure. I had to go out on a limb, so to speak with faith, trust in God that He would protect me, that He would provide for me...