1. Sharing God's Nature! Matthew 5:31-48
“Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” - Matthew 5:48

2. Matthew 5:31-48 Gives FOUR distinct AREAS…
PERFECT With MARRIAGE - vs
PERFECT With GOD - vs
PERFECT With EVIL PEOPLE - vs
PERFECT LOVE With ENEMIES - vs

3. Matthew 5:31-32
“31 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.”
Matthew 19:3-4:
"3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’

4. Matthew 19:5-9
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” -

5. ADULTERY and DIVORCE!
WHAT is DIVORCE? It is the dissolution of marriage, the termination of a marriage or marital union; thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple.
How about ADULTERY? For Christians, adultery is the SIN of a married man having sexual relations with any woman other than his wife or a married woman having sexual relations with any man other than her husband.
GOD HATES ADULTERY! The SIN that BREAKS the marriage bond and DEFY the TIMPLE of GOD; Yet GOD HATES DIVORCE BADLY too!

6. PERFECT WITH SPOUSE!
Marriage is GOD'S design NOT man!– Gen 1:27; 2:20-24; Mal. 2:15-16
Excellent example - Jesus Christ and the Church (2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:23).
Example of a hardened heart – Hosea and Gomer (Hos. 1-3)
JESUS Christ opinion about the SIN of ADULTERY as compares to any other SIN – John 8:1-11.

7. "KNOW THAT THERE IS LIFE AFTER DIVORCE!"
Summary of Matt 5:31-32
"KNOW THAT THERE IS LIFE AFTER DIVORCE!"
Apostle Paul WARNINGS:
1 Cor. 7:10-11, "10 Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. 11 But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife." (Malachi 2:15-16).
1 Cor 10:23-24, "23All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being."