1. Divorce and the Gospel of Grace8
Divorce and the Gospel of Grace

2. DIVORCE = FAILURE = BURDEN

3. PERFECTION Genesis 1 …………………. God + Creation
Exodus 20 ………………... God + Man
Matthew 5-7 ……………. Man + Man
Genesis 2 …………………. Man + Woman

4. PERFECT MARRIAGE
1 Man + 1 Woman
Life

5. “All have sinned and are condemned to death”
ACTUAL SITUATION
Romans 1:24-32; 3:23; 6:23
“All have sinned and are condemned to death”

6. Man (f/h/a) + Woman (f/h/a/ab)
IMPERFECT MARRIAGE
Man (f/h/a) + Woman (f/h/a/ab)
Divorce (s)

7. GRACE John 1:17; Romans 5:6-11; I Peter 2:24
“Jesus suffers the punishment due for our sins”
The cross is a symbol of perfection through grace.

8. Actual Situation + Grace = Perfection
THE GOOD NEWS
Actual Situation + Grace = Perfection
i.e.
Man (f/h/a) + Woman (f/h/a/ab)
Divorce (s) +
Grace =
Perfection

9. Restitution/punishment Something done to you
REPENTANCE
Legal Repentance
Restitution/punishment
Something done to you

10. Something comes out of you
REPENTANCE
Repentance from Grace
A changed heart
Something comes out of you

11. - Ps. 32:1-3 How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!
How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.
- Ps. 32:1-3

12. - Ps. 32:4-6 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.
I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.
Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.
- Ps. 32:4-6

13. - Ps. 32:7-9 You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble;
You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.
Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.
- Ps. 32:7-9

14. Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
But he who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him.
Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones;
And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.
- Ps. 32:10-11

15. Then summoning him, his lord said to him, ‘You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’
- Mt. 18:32-33

16. God is more interested in a changed heart than punishment.

17. God will punish the unrepentant
REPENTANCE IS A MUST
God will punish the unrepentant

18. Repentance is necessary to avoid the slavery of sin
REPENTANCE IS A MUST
Repentance is necessary to avoid the slavery of sin

19. Repentance glorifies God
REPENTANCE IS A MUST
Repentance glorifies God

20. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:23

21. SUMMARY
Imperfection + Grace = PERFECTION

22. SUMMARY Imperfection + Grace = PERFECTION (Faith, Repentance,
Confession, Baptism,
Faithfulness)

23. SUMMARY
Imperfection + Grace = PERFECTION
(Repentance/Prayer)

24. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
- Phil. 3:8

25. and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
- Phil. 3:9

26. that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
- Phil. 3:10-11