1. What’s Wrong with Polygamy?
Rev. Robert J. Smith
Pastor
Colonial Hills Baptist Church

2. Mark 10:5-9
5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

3. What’s Wrong?
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)

4. What’s Wrong?
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; Ephesians 4:14 (KJV)

5. What does the Bible Say?
And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 4:19 (KJV)

6. What does the Bible Say?
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Genesis 4:23-24 (KJV)

7. Polygamy is Sin
5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

8. Polygamy is Sin
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. Deuteronomy 17:17 (KJV)

9. Polygamy is Sin
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 3:2 (KJV)

10. Polygamy is not Marriage
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

11. Polygamy is not Marriage
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24 (KJV)

12. Polygamy is not Marriage
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 (KJV)

13. Polygamy hurts the family
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

14. Polygamy hurts the family
Abraham – led to bitterness between Sarah and her maid Hagar, and the eventual dismissal of Hagar and Ishmael.
Jacob – led to Rachel’s jealousy of leah and to Joseph being betrayed and sold by his half brothers.
David – led to the rape of one of his daughters (Tamar) by one of his sons (Amnon) and Amnon’s subsequent murder by Tamar’s brother Absalom.
Solomon – His many wives “turned away his heart” from the Lord to worship false Gods.

15. Polygamy hurts the family
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. Titus 1:6 (KJV)

16. Biblical Definition of Marriage
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24 (KJV)

17. Biblical Definition of Marriage

18. Biblical Definition of Marriage

19. Marriage is, what marriage is
Polygamy is sin
Polygamy is not marriage
Polygamy hurts the family

20. Where do you stand?