Saturday February 19, 2022
Theme : “ The place of the Holy Scriptures in the ministry of Jesus Christ ”
Text : Matthew 19:1-9
1. When Jesus had finished these discourses, he left Galilee, and went into the territory of Judea, beyond the Jordan. 2. A large crowd followed him, and there he healed the sick. 3. The Pharisees came to him, and said, to test him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason? 4. He answered: Have you not read that the creator in the beginning made man and woman 5. and that he said: Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and s cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? 6. Thus they are no longer two, but they are one flesh. So let no man separate what God has joined together. 7. Why then, said they to him, did Moses command to give the woman a bill of divorce and to put her away? 8. He answered them, It was because of your hardness of heart that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives; in the beginning it was not so. 9. But I tell you that he who divorces his wife, except for infidelity, and marries another, commits adultery.
Let's remember:
Jesus shows us that the crooked heart of Man was the basis of the modification of the will of God which is in the Holy Scriptures. Man could not enter into the will of God because of frustration, lack of love and forgiveness. Jesus teaches us the primary will of God. What we have done with it since the days of Moses had never been God's plan. the Man's heart is only satisfied when his carnal desire is fulfilled. Man has modified the will of God and finds himself in the situation of divorces, wandering of children, conflicts with in-laws, lawsuits before the courts. This alteration of the Holy Scriptures killed the authority of the family unit intended by God in the beginning. Jesus takes us back to the origins, when the perfect will of God was still respected. In any situation, let us refer to the Holy Scriptures to enter into the will of God. Excellent Saturday. Amen Alain Louz.-
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