A Better Way: On Spouses and Speech

Radical with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our culture takes the covenant of marriage very lightly and downplays the seriousness of divorce. In our own attempts to find happiness and fulfillment, we’ve sought out what we think is a better way. However, based on Matthew 5:31–37, we see that Jesus has a very different view of marriage and divorce. In this message, David Platt points us to God’s design for marriage—a design that is better for us and that brings him glory. Gratefully, for those who have rejected a biblical view of marriag...

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0:00.0	You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from
0:05.6	pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.
0:08.6	What we're about to read is actually only two verses from Jesus on that topic so this is not exhaustive teaching
0:15.5	from him like we even see at other parts of the Bible but let's listen to his
0:19.2	words through the lens of his love for us and consider what they mean for our lives.
0:25.0	Matthew chapter 5 verse 31.
0:27.8	It was also said, whoever divorces his wife let him give her a certificate of divorce but I say to you
0:35.1	that everyone who divorces his wife except on the ground of sexual
0:38.7	immorality makes her commit adultery and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. So Jesus
0:47.0	starts here with the same language that we're seeing at different points in
0:50.3	this sermon, like anger lust, he says,
0:53.0	it has been said this, but I say to you that.
0:59.0	So just a reminder, all throughout the sermon on the mountain,
1:02.0	Jesus is saying, I have a better way
1:05.4	The world even the religious world as it was operating in Jesus today had a certain way of approaching these issues
1:11.5	Jesus is saying but I have a better way that leads to your way of
1:15.0	this issues. This thing, but I have a better way that leads to your good. Think about the context of where this sermon started with blessing and true life
1:21.0	and not just for you but good for others as your salt and light in the world.
1:26.7	So in all these issues Jesus is saying, I have a better way than this world.
1:31.6	So if you're taking notes, here's how I would summarize these two
1:34.4	verses. Jesus is saying in a world where divorce is common, do all you can to
1:42.0	honor the marriage covenant.
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