Notes On Matthew 19-27
Ch.19 4-9. The hearts and consciences of the people have become hardened and seared - likely because of the years of pagan captivity, resulting in a watering down, or outright distortion of God’s Law: So Jesus will take them right back to the beginning - to the original foundation: The Laws by which the nation of Israel was first established; and from here, he will teach them. Vs.6 shows us the seriousness...the weightiness of the covenant of marriage, in the eyes of the Lord. 11-12.Again, emphasizing the seriousness and weightiness of marriage - so much so, that some are advised not to marry at all: That it is better to go without a wife, than to fall into sin through divorce. Marriage has been given to us by the Lord - and cannot be embarked upon, or be successful, without the Lord being the center: See Ephesians 5:22-33 12. Here is a very strange saying, implying that not everyone was created by the Lord for the purpose of being attracted, or united in matrimony, to the opposi...