Hey everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour podcast and in the last few

episodes we've been looking at Matthew chapter 19 and in particular the part of Matthew

chapter 19 that has Jesus talking about divorce and remarriage and gender and even as

strange as it might sound, unix and how people become unix and what that meant and what

the spiritual implications and church implications and marriage implications were in the first

century.

As I have said, I think in every single episode of this conversation, I totally get that

the Venn diagram has a pretty big shaded area here between this passage and very sensitive,

very delicate, very serious issues that people are wrestling with and discussing and debating

in this day and age, but the assumptions of the original audience in hearing these topics

come up would have looked nothing like the assumptions that would come to mind if this

were written today or if this were delivered to an audience here and now.

So for us, the big question is, what does marriage mean?

Why is God so concerned with it?

It looks like it's more than a societal construct that God is put in place to make it so that

people who are in love and have been intimate with somebody else don't go around and murder

other people because all relationships are open.

I think it's more than just order and sanity, construct and society.

It looks like there's theological meaning to it as well and that is evident in the two passages

we've looked at regarding marriage that are somewhat parallel passages in the Sermon on the Mount

in chapter five of Matthew where we've got the business about Jesus saying it's been said,

anyone who divorces his wife, misgivers, certificate of divorce, but I tell you that anyone who

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