Companionship is what makes every journey enjoyable.

Today we continue our journey with Jesus.

Join Scott Pauli as we make brief stops in the Gospel according to Mark.

We trust you will enjoy the journey.

We all love to avoid the hard subjects. The thing about walking through the Bible is you can't do that

unless you're going to play hopscotch with the Bible and skip over things. The beautiful truth is that Jesus did not avoid

the hard subjects. And when you come to Mark chapter 10, you come to a portion of scripture

that addresses a subject that is very delicate, very sensitive in every generation, especially

so in our day and age, and that is the subject of marriage and divorce.

In Mark 10, verse 1, we read, and he arose from thence, and cometh into the coast of Judea by the farther side of Jordan,

and the people resort unto him again, and as he was wont, he taught them again.

And the Pharisees came to him and asked him is it lawful

for a man to put away his wife tempting him let's pause just a moment and let me point out there are

two groups of people there's always two groups of people there are those who really want to grow and be

taught that's the ones you see in verse one and then there are those that really don't want to be taught and no they want to grow and be taught, that's the ones you see in verse one, and then there are those that

really don't want to be taught. And no, they want to tempt you. They want to lead you into an

argument. Oh, may I say to you that the God of truth is not interested in debating? His work is a

work of declaration. He says, this is it. This is my way. And so they're trying to trick

or to trap the Lord Jesus. Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? And Jesus answered,

verse three, and said unto them, what did Moses command you? Now this is a great first principle.

When you're dealing with a difficult subject. Number one,

what does the word of God say? Immediately he appeals to the authority of scripture. And I love that.

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