How Jesus Responded to the Divorce Debate

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sermon on the Mount E13 – In Matthew 5:31-32, Jesus offers a quote from the Torah about when it is lawful to divorce, and then he shares his perspective. But what is the context of these words, and how would Jesus’ original audience have heard them? It’s easy for modern readers to miss, but Jesus is entering a longstanding debate concerning a passage about divorce in Deuteronomy 24—and his take is surprising. In this episode, Jon, Tim, and special guest Jeannine Brown discuss the story surrounding divorce in ancient Israel, the Bible’s ideal of covenant loyalty, and the wisdom we can find in Scripture to navigate divorce in our culture today.

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0:00.0	This is John from Bible Project and this year we're reading through the sermon on the
0:08.1	mount with me through the series as co-host Michelle Jones.
0:11.3	Hi Michelle.
0:12.3	Hi John so in his collection of teachings called Jones, hi Michelle. Hi, John.
0:12.6	So in his collection of teachings called the sermon on the Mount,
0:15.8	Jesus tells us that he has come to fulfill the story of the Bible
0:20.3	and also to call his followers to a greater righteousness,
0:24.0	that is, show us how we can live in right relationships with each other.
0:29.0	Now, some of the religious leaders of Jesus' day
0:32.0	thought that he was not taking the commands
0:34.8	found in the Hebrew Bible seriously enough.
0:38.1	Jesus begs to differ though.
0:40.3	In this section of the sermon on the Mount, he shows us how the commands of the Torah have embedded in them God's deep ethical wisdom for us.
0:49.5	And it gives us a vision for how to live in right relationships.
0:54.0	Now if you've been following along, we've gone through two examples.
0:58.0	Two laws found from the Ten Commandments,
1:00.0	Do not murder and do not commit adultery.
1:03.0	Exactly.
1:04.0	Today we look at a third example and it doesn't come from the
1:07.4	commandments. It comes from a more obscure law in
1:10.8	Deuteronomy 24, a law that addresses when it's appropriate for a man to divorce
1:16.3	his wife.
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