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Matthew 19 198
Q UESTIONS & OBJECTIONS
O19:16 “I need to get my life cleaned up first.”
Those who think that they can clean up their lives don’t see their true
plight. They are standing guilty before a wrath-filled God. They have
been condemned by His Law (John 3:18; Romans 3:19). If a man commits
rape and murder and admits to the judge that he is guilty, will the
judge let him go just because the man says he will clean up his life? He is in debt to the law and
must be punished. We may be able to clean up our lives in the sight of man, but not in the sight
of God. The only way we can be cleansed is to repent and trust in the Savior.
3 The Pharisees also came to him, tempting
him, and saying to him, Is it lawful
for a man to put away his wife for every
cause?
4 And he answered and said to them,
Have you not read, that he which made
them at the beginning made them male
and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man
leave father and mother, and shall cleave
to his wife: and they twain shall be one
flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but
one flesh. What therefore God has joined
together, let not man put asunder.
7 They said to him, Why did Moses then
command to give a writing of divorcement,
and to put her away?
8 He said to them, Moses because of the
hardness of your hearts suffered you to
put away your wives: but from the beginning
it was not so.
9 And I say to you, Whosoever shall put
away his wife, except it be for fornication,
and shall marry another, commits adultery:
and whoso marries her which is put
away does commit adultery.
10 His disciples said to him, If the case
of the man be so with his wife, it is not
good to marry.
11 But he said to them, All men cannot
receive this saying, save they to whom it
is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs, which
were so born from their mother’s womb:
and there are some eunuchs, which were
made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs,
which have made themselves eunuchs
for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.
He that is able to receive it, let him re-
19:3–6 Jesus confirmed that the creation of Adam and Eve was a real historical event when He
quoted Genesis 1:27 and 2:24 in His teaching. Genesis is quoted more than sixty times in seventeen
books of the New Testament. See also Mark 10:6–9 and 2 Corinthians 11:3 footnotes.
19:4 Evolution—the origin of sexes. Almost all forms of complex life have both male and female—horses,
dogs, humans, moths, monkeys, fish, elephants, birds, etc. The male needs the female
to reproduce, and the female needs the male to reproduce. One cannot carry on life without
the other. Which then came first according to the evolutionary theory? If a male came into being
before a female, how did the male of each species reproduce without females? How is it possible
that a male and a female each spontaneously came into being, yet they have complex, complementary
reproductive systems? If each sex was able to reproduce without the other, why (and how)
would they have developed a reproductive system that requires both sexes in order for the species
to survive? See Psalm 139:14 and Mark 10:6 footnotes.
“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it has been applied,
will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so
flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.”
Malcolm Muggeridge, British journalist and philosopher