If 50 or 60 years ago, a minister would preach a sermon on divorce, people would wonder why is he doing that.

But today, it is impossible for any of us who have not been directly or indirectly affected by the pain of divorce.

Now, on a pastoral level, of course you must understand that I want to

see all marriages strong, healthy, and prosperous. On a pastoral level, I want to fix all the pain

that results from a breakdown in marriage. I really do, and I ache on the inside. From a pastoral level,

I want to embrace the children who have been through the pain of divorce. But since the series

of messages that we've been doing is not entitled, what does Michael Yusuf say, or what did Michael

Yusuf mean, but it is what did Jesus mean. And today we are going to

hear what Jesus said about marriage and divorce. The truth is the matter is that during the time

of Jesus was very much a time like ours. Sometimes we think we're so far advanced that no other time

in history was like ours.

It was to a certain degree, yes, there's some things, yes.

But in many ways, if you examine the days of Jesus, in the days in which Jesus walked this earth,

and you compare them with our day, there are a lot of similarities between his time and hours. Let me explain this.

It had been 1,500 years or so since Moses had given the law of God to the people of Israel.

1,500 years. And during those 1,500 years, all kinds of rabbis and all kinds of self-asserted authorities have reinterpreted the Word of God.

They have misinterpreted the Word of God.

And most of those reinterpretations really were by theologians and rabbis were mostly self-serving. Most of this reinterpretation

were catering to self-indulgence and catering to selfishness. And it's not unlike our day.

It's not unlike our day. And we have all sorts of theologians and preachers and self-proclaimed Christian authorities

who are reinterpreting the Word of God.

There are whole denominations have reinterpreted the Word of God in order to accommodate to self-indulgence,

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