In the Gospel reading, Jesus talks about why divorce is wrong. He said: But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘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.” (Mark 10:6-9)
Jesus then said to His disciples: “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”(Mark 10:10-12)
In this post I want to draw a parallel between the oneness of husband and wife and our oneness with the Lord in the Kingdom of God. The Bible teaches that he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. (1 Corinthians 6:17)
In Paul's 1st letter to the Corinthians, he addressed an issue in the Church were Church members were having sex with the temple prostitutes. (1 Corinthians 6:12-20) He said: Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,”He says, “shall become one flesh.” (1 Corinthians 6:15-16) Paul is speaking to Church members who have received the New Birth and are one with Christ in this verse. What Paul said here is profound. Notice that the sin of the Corinthians did not separate them from Christ. If you think about it, Jesus Christ was right there with them when they committed sexual sin with the temple prostitutes. Jesus said something similar in the Gospel reading. He said that it does not matter if you divorce your wife. You are still one with her and that is why it is adultery to marry someone else. Nothing can break the oneness of husband and wife in the flesh. Similarly, nothing can break our oneness with Christ and the Holy Spirit in the Spirit. Not even sin. Selah.
That is why a true born again Christian does not enjoy sin. After he has fallen into temptation and sinned, he feels uneasy and sad until he confesses his sin and righteousness in Christ. A Christian cannot enjoy sin, especially adultery because He is one with Christ and has the Holy Spirit in him. Therefore Paul said: Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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