Model Marriage
Complications of Divorce
God, generally, does not like broken fellowship of any sort. The concept of a broken home or
broken lives hurts God.^2
(a) An unending hurt is inflicted.The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off
contention, before it be meddled with.Proverbs 17:14(b) A bitter personality is created.The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can
bear?Proverbs 18:14(c) There is a permanent break-up of relationship/fellowship.A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions
are like the bars of a castle.Proverbs 18:19(d) Destruction of happiness.The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that
they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
John 10:10
e) A broken/wounded spirit and emotions:
i. Marriage involves emotions, so a breakdown leads to the tearing
apart of soul ties.
ii. Both partners are often destroyed, sometimes beyond full
recovery.
iii. Separation is the termination of a commitment with emotional
involvement.
iv. Divorce is legalized separation.
v. A vow is unto death: Don’t make it if you are not going to keep it.When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure
in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow,
than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.Ecclesiastes 5:4,5