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  Matt 5:31-32 In John MacArthur ’s book “The Divorce Dilemma” he wrote there are four dominant views about divorce .   1. Secular society (and sadly, even many professing Christians) would allow divorce and remarriage anytime, for anybody, for anything.   Some (bible commentators and theologians) are generally divided amoung the next three view.   2. Some would insist that, biblically, there is to be no divorce at all for anybody, not for any reason, or under any circumstances.   3. Others teach that divorce under certain circumstances is permissible but no remarriage is allowed…ever…at any time, for anybody, for any reason.   4. Others say that, biblically, both divorce and remarriage are possible, but only under certain circumstances.   Which of these options is truly biblical?   I hope to do my best to answer that this morning.  Understand as John MacArthur also went to say that “When two people are bound togethe...

Matt 5:27-30   The puritan John Owen wrote a book called “The Mortification of Sin” that challenges the child of God to radically exam one’s life in light of God’s Word.  It’s a book that talks about the dangers of sin and how we are to avoid such acts of the flesh.  Owen, got the title for his book by preaching a number of messages on Romans 8:13 “For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death (mortify) the deeds of the body, you will live.”   Sin is deadly and it kills and John Owen said in his book “Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”   What Jesus addresses next in His sermon is ruthless, chilling, it’s demanding and it should cause our hearts to take sin seriously. (v27-v30)  Unfortunately we often reduce sin to what we do, but Jesus says if that is our thinking we approach our sin incorrectly.  Sin begins at the heart, the very core of our being.  Sin is absolutely dead...