God established a New Covenant with Israel, by the shed blood of His Son, Jesus, and whoever believes that Jesus is His Son and that God has raised Him from the dead is given a place in that covenant and is saved from eternal death. That same individual has access to God’s power and the very principles by which He governs it. Thus, the covenant believers have with God through Jesus Christ is purposed for life. Rom 10:9 (Darby) that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.
One’s participation in this covenant will not change God; He is already perfect in every way. However, through the influence of the Spirit of God, it will fundamentally change the individual, revealing a new life one now lives. Remember that this cutting of the covenant was for the spirit, soul, and body of humanity. So, in this covenant, God willingly exercises faith by His Divine nature in His interaction with it. Thus, it is a relationship that, if allowed, cuts directly into His covenant partner’s whole life.
Something to consider in this: if believers, by faith at a personal level, act by their nature under His grace as who they are in Christ, who is to say this is not spiritually acceptable to God? Similarly, spouses in a marriage covenant actively interact in each other’s lives, affecting the other’s realm of spirit, soul, and body, each according to their nature and the fundamental principles governing their lives.
Where do such fundamental principles come from? They are inherently founded on what is viewed as acceptable for governing one’s life, based on and according to the things that influence them; whether it be persons, events, situations, or life occurrences, they all influence. In the aspects of a believer, the Holy Spirit influences us in our covenant with God. He continually reveals the truth from the word, transforming us into having the exact nature as God so that we, as His children, rightly govern ourselves as subordinate offspring.
If marriage transforms due to the natures asserted into it by both the male and female, and the children. And since none of them is entirely the same, the overall character of that marriage is inherently unique.
2 Cor 3:18 (Darby) But we all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by [the] Lord [the] Spirit. God only made us male or female, so the spiritually purposed union of both sexes is in His plan; anything that is contrary to it is not from God. Your family position through Christ makes your faith, by relationship to the Father, unique because of you and a nature to either be as He is, or as you were.
Math 19:4-6 (AMP) He replied, Have you never read that He Who made them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly (joined inseparably) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder (separate).
A marriage covenant reveals a spiritual nature or character as it is established in God’s purpose for men and women. What does that mean? It means that both positions express a spiritual nature, whether righteous or sinful, destined to fulfill a purpose He set in His eternal plan from the beginning. He ordained marriage to be a covenant, or an environment where, by the Spirit of God, every family member is transformed to fulfill his or her creative purpose.
Gen 2:23-24 (MSG) The Man said, “Finally! Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh! Name her Woman for she was made from Man.” 24 Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh. Married believers must understand that God instituted marriage before Adam’s fall; thus, it has a spiritual purpose still impounded on its eternal workings and is anointed to be an environment that produces life through a seeding process, both natural and spiritual. Though God cursed the earth, He did not curse Adam and Eve’s marriage.
Gen 1:28 (AMP)And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth. This scripture refers to humanity being created perfectly to fulfill God’s purpose. Each person takes their place as His spiritual son or daughter to bring forth His future lineage and exercise the dominion status He proclaimed initially.
Mal 2:15-16 (AMP) And did not God make [you and your wife] one [flesh]? Did not One make you and preserve your spirit alive? And why [did God make you two] one? Because He sought a godly offspring [from your union]. Therefore take heed to yourselves, and let no one deal treacherously and be faithless to the wife of his youth. A marriage covenant between children of God should be working out this process through each one’s covenant with God. This results in a marriage with a core family structure that reveals God’s Fathering divine nature, expressly operating through each by the Holy Spirit to complete God’s purpose for them.
Just because you may not yet have a covenant with God or a marriage reflecting such a process does not mean it cannot happen. Regardless of where you or your marriage may be at this moment in respect to such things, it is God’s earnest desire for you to begin now to change those things that are not to be as though they were as He has purposed by faith in His ability. Understanding marriage and its covenant purpose settles the issue of divorce in the believer’s heart, which is a good place for the Holy Spirit to reveal all truth about it.
All males and females are positioned in a spiritual plan for creation to fulfill God’s eternal purpose concerning them within His corporate replenishing processes. You must know that no one can control life occurring through natural birth, but everyone spiritually positioned in Christ by God is, from the beginning. Listen carefully: each one’s existence in humanity ties to God’s purpose from the start, just as in nature, all have come from those God began with, such as Adam and Eve. They are so since all things exist because God has spoken them into being—all things are tied to a spiritual purpose, which He, by faith, will complete. You and I must understand our purpose from God’s spiritual perspective by faith, positioned in Christ and able to fulfill it spiritually.
16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I hate divorce and marital separation and him who covers his garment [his wife] with violence. Therefore keep a watch upon your spirit [that it may be controlled by My Spirit], that you deal not treacherously and faithlessly [with your marriage mate].
Divorce was never in God’s plans for the male and female of His creation, yet it came to be an option through Moses, who tried to please those who wanted to separate themselves from their wives for whatever reason. It has no spiritual authority from God upon any marriage. The truth about divorce is that it is a covert work of the enemy, the devil, influencing one’s humanity of flesh and soul to bring about a separation of a God-purposed union He ordained to produce life, and eventually more spiritual offspring.
Sexual adultery is an act of physical, sexual intercourse carried out with someone, not in a marriage covenant with you, and can be committed by either spouse. It is described as an acceptable statute for divorce in the sight of God. Math 19:8-9 (MSG) Jesus said, “Moses provided for divorce as a concession to your hardheartedness, but it is not part of God’s original plan. 9 I’m holding you to the original plan, and holding you liable for adultery if you divorce your faithful wife and then marry someone else. I make an exception in cases where the spouse has committed adultery.”
Why is divorce an exception in the case of adultery? Because it occurs through a spiritually covert action solely purposed to breach the sovereign authority of the individuals within a marriage covenant. Though adultery takes place at the physical level, the realm of one’s humanity involving the flesh, in the aspect of covenant, it corrupts God’s spiritual purpose of marriage.
Let us reflect on what happened in the garden: Adam committed high treason by eating the fruit God said not to. In doing so, He breached God’s sovereign authority given to him by the one who ordained him and his seed to have dominion on this earth, thus corrupting his spiritual purpose. Marriage is ordained to fulfill a God-purposed plan to bring forth naturally born humanity as eventual spiritual offspring to God. It continues today through us, His adopted offspring, His spiritual sons and daughters, through faith in Jesus Christ, His Son.
So, keep in mind that those I am talking about here are those who are the spiritually born-again sons and daughters of God, as those who are not born again have only procreation as a blessing. Covenant of marriage, consisting of children of God, can be ended by divorce if a surrender of one’s ordained purpose established in Christ has occurred, breaching the sovereignty of its ordinance of union in that covenant.
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