Why does Satan hate
marriage so much?
These words are God's answer to
marriage and divorce.
These words are not meant to
discourage but to encourage. God is wanting to work in our lives.
Matthew 19:3-8 NKJV
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?”
(Is it lawful
for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?)
4 And He answered
and said to them, “Have you not read (the Bible) that He who made
them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’
5 and said, ‘For
this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined (yoked together like
two oxen working together) to
his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
(Do you think
that Jesus exaggerates about them being one flesh?) No!
6 So then, they are
no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together,
let not man separate.”
(Jesus's
answer to their question was no.)
John 1:17 NKJV
17 For the
law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ.
In the Bible,
Moses represents the law, but Jesus represents grace. We would think that
the law says that you can't do that, and grace would say that it's okay, but
it's just the opposite. Grace says
no. You're in a covenant with God and your spouse in your marriage. You
must work it out.
1. Marriage represents God.
This was their second question...
7 They said to Him,
“Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce,
and to put her away?”
This was Jesus's answer to their second
question.
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.
In every divorce there is at least one person
with a hard heart. In Moses day, men were marrying second and third
wives, but not divorcing their previous wives and not caring for
them.
Their previous wives weren't able to take care
of their own needs in their primitive society; therefore, Moses was saying to
give them a document of divorce for them to remarry for their own
survival.
Genesis
1:26 New
King James Version (NKJV)
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man
in Our image, according to Our likeness; let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and
over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.”
27 So
God created man in His own image; in
the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Here is God's
Trinity represented by using the word "us". Both male and
female together is the image of God because it reflects God's Trinity. It is
not any man and any woman, but it reflects a marriage of a man and a woman.
Marriage is the image of God on the earth.
Satan hates
marriage because it is the image of God on the earth. Satan did not
attack Adam. He attacked marriage because it is a reflection of God's
image upon the earth.
If the Trinity
is 3 persons in 1 and marriage is 2 persons in 1. How can marriage reflect
God's image? The three persons in marriage is the husband, wife, and God
Himself. These 3 persons in 1 is marriage. That's the only way that
marriage works.
The husband and
wife are individuals in unity. In the Trinity, there are three
individuals in perfect unity.
2. Marriage
represents Christ and the Church.
Ephesians 5:31-33 NKJV
31 “For this reason
a man shall leave his
father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one
flesh.”
32 This is a great
mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let
each one of you (a picture of Christ) in particular so love his
own wife as himself , and let the wife (a picture of the Church) see that she
respects her husband.
Suppose your
trying to lead someone to Christ and they ask how will God treat me? Say
God is going to treat you in the same way that I treat my
spouse. Our marriage is an earthly representation of Christ to His
Church.
Jesus got upset
about divorce. Would it be okay for the Trinity to get divorced? There is
no male or female in Christ (Galatians 3:28). God plays no favorites.
3. Marriage represents covenant.
Malachi 2:14 NKJV
14 Yet you say,
“For what reason?” Because the Lord has been witness Between you
and the wife of your youth, With whom you have dealt treacherously;Yet she is
your companion And your wife by covenant.
In a contract,
you are trying to protect your rights and limit your responsibilities. In
covenant, we give up our rights, and we pick up our responsibilities.
If a lost people
asks, how can I know how God will take care of me? Tell them that they
are making a covenant with God. You can say look how I and my wife take
care of each other because we are in a covenant too.
Marriage is an
example of the new covenant not the old. In the old testament, God's part
was to protect, provide, and bless. Your part is to be perfect.
God was giving
us the standard of perfection to get us frustrated enough to come to Christ.
God never wanted a legalistic relationship but a loving one.
In the new
testament or the new covenant, God's part was to protect, provide, and
bless. Your part is to trust Christ to live for you the life that you could
never live, and to die for you the death that you should have died.
That's how we come into the new covenant with God.
That's how
covenant works with our spouse. We keep our part whether they do or
not. Say Holy Spirit what are you saying to me in these words?
It's okay for us
to struggle. We live in a fallen world and Satan is attacking us.
Say Lord, we give to you our lives and our marriage as Lord and Savior.
Only you can save us. You are the only one who can.
Notes taken from Robert Morris, Gateway Church, The Blessed Marriage.
http://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/life/events/blessed-families-a-gateway-series/session/2018/10/20/the-blessed-marriage
