Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today, Mr. Chuck continues with

marriage and divorce as we pick up in

Deuteronomy chapter 24 verse 31 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

In the beginning it was not sold.

Now the law was added later on.

The law came many years later.

In the beginning, God now goes back to Adam and Eve. Jesus now goes back to God's perfect initial plan for family relationships, for husband-wife relationships.

It was originally God's divine intent that you have a once-for-life marriage relationship.

In the beginning, God made them male and female and for this cause shall a man leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh therefore that which God has joined together let no man put asunder, and that

is God's divine ideal for every couple. But Jesus said because of the hardness of your hearts,

Moses said, let him give her a writing of a bill of divorcement.

Now, Jesus is not going back to the law, he's going back before the law, he's going back to God's divine

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