Till Death Do You Part – Married For Life Sermon Series Part 3 of 3

So if you’ve missed the first two parts, check out a playlist — it’ll be in a card up above — or go to our website, type in “Married.” You can watch those sermons. You can watch this one first, and then you can go back and watch or listen to those others.

Or, if you want to stop this one and go back and start at the beginning and then continue on through, just make sure that you take the time to go and watch or listen to those other sermons if you haven’t already, because this is a very, very important series, especially in today’s day and age.

We have “Married For Life.” People, a male and a female, get married. They become partners forever. They become equally yoked, and they pull together, doing much more good for the Kingdom than if they were separated.

Now, you might say, “Well, what about like Paul, who says it’s better to be single or you be alone like that?” Well, that could work for some people, but for others, God has put a partner on Earth — a suitable helper — exactly like it says in Genesis for Adam.

No suitable helper was found. Now, if it was better for man to be alone, then why would God have shown Adam all of the creatures and said, “No suitable helper was found. Let me create woman,” because from man she was created, “Let me create a woman to be a helper for him.”

So obviously, the best thing, what God has designed, is for man and woman to unite together, to build the Kingdom together, and do even more together than they could apart.

Now, for some, yes, the solitary lifestyle is the way to go. And if that is you, excellent, live it, do it, breathe it for the Kingdom of God. But if that is not you, find the one that God made for you. The two become one. Unite. Build the Kingdom together.

So we are talking today about “Till death do you part”. This is part of vows in many marriages: “till death do you part.” Some people, comedians, joke, “Oh, you’re setting a goal.” No, you’re not. “Till death do you part,” you are making a commitment.

You are making a promise that you guys are going to work together hand in hand, building the Kingdom for God. A male and a female, two becoming one flesh.

Now, if for some reason along the way that gets broken, then yes, there are problems that happen. That could be — recommitment needs to be rededicated often, and you need to be reminding each other, and you need to be reminded of that fact that God put you together for a reason.

If that gets forgotten, then all kinds of problems happen. All kinds of problems — hurt, pain, struggles, strife. Ununited, unequally yoked marriages are everywhere. Unfortunately, divorce is something that nearly everyone in today’s society has experienced in some way, shape, or form.

Many children have divorced parents or they know someone of divorced parents. A lot of people even have parents that aren’t married, so that’s different. A lot of people, even now, we’re getting way off the deep end, they might have same-sex parents.

Which is something that the Bible does not agree with, and we believe the Bible. We’re not going to get into that whole same-sex gay debate, but the point is, the Bible says it’s between male and female, man and woman.

God created a man and a woman. He created them a certain way, and it is not for us to change the way we were created. So whatever is in our DNA, that is the way we were created. Of course, there is the nature versus nurture debate. Yes, guess what.

Nature can, and nurture — how you are raised, how you live — can actually change the way your synapses fire. So you can be creating yourself to be made in a new way. What does that mean? Well, we can be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

So if all of a sudden, starting today, I think that I am Bigfoot — like literally Sasquatch in the woods — and I believe that, then guess what? Over time, I will start to become that. You’re like, “Well, no, you’re not going to literally like grow a bunch of hair and all this.” Maybe not. But the point is, I will start behaving and acting and thinking that way. I will become primitive.

Because you can renew and transform your mind and think that way. What does that have to do with anything? If today, right now, I start believing, or a person, a male, starts believing that they all of a sudden, “You know what? I think I am homosexual,” then guess what?

That male can start believing that and thinking that, and their mind will be transformed and renewed, and they will become that way. And they’ll say, “No, that’s the way I was created.” No, it’s the way you created yourself to be. That’s not the way God created you. Same thing with a female.

She starts to believe, “Guess what? I think all of a sudden, I like women. I’m bisexual.” Then pretty soon it becomes, “I don’t like men at all anymore. I’m homosexual. They’re a lesbian.” And they say, “That’s the way I was created.”

No, they were not created that way. They created themselves that way. They perverted the way God created them. That’s what the devil does. The devil is very unoriginal. The devil does not create anything. The devil takes God’s creation and perverts it and twists it.

Look at Pedophilia. God created healthy sexual relationships between men and women, and the devil perverted it and said, “I want older humans to be attracted to younger humans.”

He wants older women to be attracted to young men and seduce them, and have sex with them. That’s a perversion. He wants older men to seduce — now, by older and younger, we’re not talking, “Oh, I robbed the cradle,” no.

We’re talking about an adult female having sexual relations with a school-aged child, or an adult male having sexual relations with a school-aged child. God created healthy sexual relationships between male and female.

The devil took that healthy relationship and perverted it and twisted it into something that is abnormal, that is detestable by God — into pedophilia, into homosexuality, into fornication of some kind. The devil perverts what God creates.

Now, divorce is rampant all over. We had our last sermon that we did last week, part of this sermon series. What is the point of all of this backstory and thought about this? Guess what.

God created you a certain way. You are not to recreate that. You are not to pervert that. That is the work of the devil. So if you believe that you are born with gay tendencies or homosexual tendencies, guess what? You and the entire world are born into a sinful world.

You say, “I have a predisposition to be a serial killer. I have a predisposition to be a drug addict, to be addicted. I have an addictive personality.” You know what? We all have tendencies toward our sin nature. If you choose to develop that and renew your mind to become that, then guess what?

You are recreating yourself into the image of the devil, into the image of sin. But if you choose to renew your mind, you can recreate yourself. You’re not recreating yourself, though. You are embodying. You can, for lack of a better term, recreate yourself, transform yourself, renew your mind, into becoming the image of God by living according to His Word.

You have two choices. We have a sermon, “Child Of The Devil” or “A Child Of God.” Whose child are you? Are you transforming and renewing your mind to be like this world or to be like God? The choice is yours.

Divorce, very, very rampant. We’re talking about being married for life in this sermon series. Today’s message, “Till Death Do You Part.” Divorce is everywhere. Comedians say, “I’ll never get married because 50 percent of marriages end up in divorce.” Guess what? That’s true. Unfortunately, the statistic might even be higher.

If you become married, you have the probability of being divorced. But guess what? What if that was not even a chance, not even an option? Then you know that when you get married, you are married for Life, till death do you part.

They are united to become one flesh — a male and female. Marriage was created by God to be a sacred and holy Union between a man and a woman. They are united to become one flesh. Let’s go to Genesis 2:24.

If you’ve been with us for this series, this is a recurring verse. Genesis 2:24, “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.” What God has joined together, we cannot separate. Flesh does not naturally separate from itself. If your flesh began to fall off your bones, that would be abnormal.

In fact, many people with leprosy, stuff started falling off. That’s abnormal. They were shunned, and that’s unclean, that’s no good. Let’s go to Matthew 19:6. We’ve read this verse before.

Matthew 19:6, “They are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.” God created the union of marriage, the institution of marriage. “Oh, that’s a prison.” No, it’s not. Cut the jokes because this is serious.

This is a sacred union designed, created, and ordained by God for a man and a woman to become united, working together with one flesh, one goal — to serve the Lord, to build the Kingdom — and they will do much more together than they could do alone. Let’s go to Mark 10:9.

Mark 10:9, “Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.” When God puts two people together, do not separate it. God created it; do not pervert it. In the same way, that flesh separating and falling off your bones would be abnormal and unhealthy.

Divorce is something that should be abnormal and unhealthy in marriage. We talked about divorce last week. Marriage needs to be for Life, till death do you part.

Let’s go to another verse, Romans 7:2, “For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.”

That could be said the same way in reverse. What does that mean? Well, for example, by law, a married man is bound to his wife till she dies, as long as she is alive. But if the wife dies, then the man is released from the law that binds him to her.

Now, this was said the way it was said because women were typically bound more than men. Men had more freedom of that day, but God created us all to be equal partners working together in separate roles. There are so many people that say, “Well, a woman can do everything a man can do.” No.

A woman should not do everything a man could do, and a man should not do everything a woman could do, because if that were the case, then one of them would be unnecessary.

Men cannot bear children. Women bear children. They become one together. Women cannot fertilize themselves to be able to bear a child. Men do that. There are other instances that men and women have differences. Men have more muscle and strength. There are certain things in today’s world that are so messed up, it is not — it’s funny, but it’s not.

Boxing. There was a man that had a sex change and became a female and is boxing against women and is beating the heck out of them all, and everyone’s like, “Wow, good for that person! Wow, yay, she — he became a she and is now in whatever identity found him or herself and is dominating the field of sports in boxing.”

No kidding. If I, as a man, got into a ring with a bunch of women and started beating them up, you guys would put me in jail. But if I change my appearance and pervert the way God created me, you cheer. Same thing.

There was another Olympic — I think it was Olympic swimming. A person, a man, became a woman and joined the Women’s Olympics or swimming, whether it was Olympics or not, and beat all of these women, and people were like, “Wow, can you believe it?” Of course I can.

Because even one of the — this is even one of the lower-class or worse male swimmers who becomes a female and goes into the women’s swimming is going to win. Why? There’s way more muscle. Men have that ability. Men were created to work the field, to work the land. This is biblical.

They naturally build more muscle. Why? Because men have way more testosterone. Testosterone is a chemical — we now know in today’s day and age — that helps build muscle, one of the many chemicals.

One of the amino acids and proteins and that men have a lot more of these that can build muscle quicker, stronger, and faster than women. And so if you take a man and you say he becomes a woman, he still has those chemicals, and that’s the way it is. And so men and women, yes, we are created equal.

But we are not meant to do the same things. We are meant to complement each other, to work together, the two become one flesh — a union exactly as God designed. And then we are to work together, each with our own strengths and weaknesses, helping one another, building each other up.

If one falls down, the other helps them up. As Proverbs says, as Solomon says, “If a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” Who is the third strand? The Holy Spirit. Because guess what? God has joined it together. Let no one separate. Till death do you part. As long as each other is alive, they are bound together — equal but different. Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 7:39.

1 Corinthians 7:39, “A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.” Okay, very, very critical. We already talked about some of this. The woman is bound to her husband.

We’re saying this because in this day and age, the man had an elevated status. The woman had a lower status. They didn’t have as many rights. And so the woman was bound to him in marriage. Nowadays, women have equal rights as men. Guess what? Yes, equal, not the same. Men and women have different roles.

We’ve talked about this a little bit. I know a lot of people are going to argue with me, feminist movement. But guess what? You take a look at the beliefs of true feminism, they do not align with the Bible.

Therefore, we do not believe them. They are false. You must get into the Bible. If you have a feminist belief and you can find it in the Bible, great, let’s dive into it, let’s talk about it. But guess what?

You can’t take a certain verse and pull it out of context, like if I said, “Hey, a woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she’s free to marry anyone she wishes.” Okay, so that means I’m never bound as a man? I’m not bound? No, wrong. You can’t pull that out of context.

Because if you look elsewhere in the Bible, we are bound. Two become one, let no one separate. I’m bound just like a woman is bound in marriage. We are bound together because God put us together.

“A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” “A bundle of sticks does not break.” “When two lie down together, they will keep warm together.” Two become one flesh, equally yoked. When yoked oxen are yoked together, they do not pull apart.

There are so many other instances. You cannot take one verse out of context for any certain topic. You have to look at the Bible Scripture as a whole because God created this to flow and work together, divinely written and ordained.

Now, continue on that we have that they’re bound together till death do they part. But let’s continue on. If the death happens, the spouse, whether it’s a man or woman, is free to remarry again, remarry to the opposite sex.

But that person must belong to the Lord. What does that mean, “belong to the Lord”? If I am a Christian, I am in Christ. I belong to the Lord. This is L.o.r.d., just a capital L, meaning must belong to the Lord God, Lord Jesus, not Yahweh.

So, but if I am in Christ, then I do belong to Yahweh as well. So the point is, if my spouse dies — my opposite sex spouse — your opposite sex spouse dies, then you are free to remarry as long as the person you marry is a believer, exactly like you are. Do not be unequally yoked.

We talked about that two weeks ago. Watch that sermon. You must be yoked equally together — equal but different. Remember, unfortunately, divorce has become the norm. We’re going to check out a couple more verses.

Let’s go to Matthew 19:11 and 12. Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given.” What word? The word of marriage. We’ve been reading this for the past two weeks. If you don’t know what word we’re talking about, go watch those other sermons.

But Jesus is saying, “Not everyone can accept this word.” I could even say, “Not everyone’s going to accept what I’m saying right now,” but only to the people to whom it has been given. Marriage, divorce, till death do you part, married for life — those words are not going to be accepted by everyone — between male and female only.

Do not pervert what God has created. Those words are not going to be accepted for everyone, but only to those to whom it has been given. So Matthew 19:11 and 12, Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only to those to whom it has been given.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

So there are some people who will not be married, who will choose to live that way, who may have been forcibly — it happened to them through evil. They can live that way. So not everyone can accept marriage, but for those that can, it should be accepted.

In today’s world, society has taken a sinful and an ungodly act and deemed it appropriate. This is why Christ tells believers, “Do not be a friend of this world.” We have a sermon on that, “Friend Of The World.” Go to our website, type in “World.” Watch it. “Do not be a friend of the world or anything in the world.” Let’s go to one more verse, 1 John.

1 John 2:15, “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love for the Father is not in them.” So if you love the world and anything in the world, if you say, “I am proud to be homosexual,” you are living in the world. You are loving the things of this world.

The love of the Father is not in you because guess what’s in you? Pride. Pride is in you. Where is pride? Pride is of the devil. Pride is what made the devil the devil — one of the things. Pride caused Satan to think he was greater than God, and he rebelled and got cast out.

Your pride is going to make you have destruction. Many people say, “Pride leads to a fall.” No, pride leads to destruction. A haughty spirit leads to a fall. So guess what? The proud will be destroyed. That’s the Bible, guys. It’s not me saying it.

This is the Word of God. Whether you choose to believe it is up to you. Some will believe, many will not believe. We choose to believe.

Let’s pray.

Father, thank you so much for this message, this timely and inspiring message on “Till Death Do You Part.”

I ask that You would inspire believers that watch and listen to this to dive into Your Word, to meditate on the Scriptures day and night, to always have it on their lips, to bind them around their necks and on their hands, and put it on their hearts, Lord.

That they would work together to be equally yoked in marriage, united together as one flesh, male and female, exactly as You created them to be, that they would be married for life, till death do they part.

And that You would give them the strength and the energy to be the person in that marriage that You want them to be — to be a perfect and an exact representation of Christ on Earth, living as You want them to live.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

It’s been a great series. Again, check them out if you missed any of them. Share them with your friends as well. Have a great week, and God bless.