1. A man takes a wife.

2. A husband finds an indecency.

3. A husband can file for divorce, but I encourage not to.

"Just the same as in the automobile business, stick to one model" Henry Ford

1 Corinthians 7:10-16 “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”

4. From marriages come babies.

5. Don't bring sin upon the land.

“It is best to be content with such things as we have, since changes made by discontent often prove for the worse. The uneasiness we know is commonly better, though we are apt to think it worse, than that which we do not know.” (Commentaries on Deuteronomy, Henry, cxl)

Sermon Discussion Questions

1. Share the joys of your marriage. Share a thing you have learned from your marriage. (If you are married, of course.)

2. How was marriage modeled as you were growing up? What were some things you learned from your parents? What has been something you have adopted, and what is something you have rejected from your parent's marriage?

3. Pray right now for any family members/neighbor children/church children that they would be "decent," If/when they get married, they will find a Godly spouse striving to serve God as well. Then, pray for their future children.

4. Each of us probably knows of a marriage that is struggling. Please pray for these marriages.

5. What is something from this passage that God revealed to you?

6. What other passages would support the idea of not bringing sin into the land?