Valentine’s Day approaches. Today’s “Friday Sermon” comes from Dr. James White. Dr. James White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of more than twenty books, a professor, an accomplished debater, and an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church.

However, today’s sermon isn’t from Alpha & Omega Ministry; rather, it comes from the sermon he preached at Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church on Sunday, February 1, 2015. I’m no fan of Valentine’s Day, for the world has had its say on how the Church defines love and romance. However, there is a right way to preach what the Word of God has to say on the topic of Marriage and how God intended male and female to be united in marriage. God created Marriage. He decides how it works and how it doesn’t. Jesus died for our sins and was raised on the 3rd day and has been given the Name above All Names. He defines Marriage. No one else has that right. No one.

Morning Sermon Audio

Jesus Defines Marriage by Dr. James White

Morning Sermon Text

Matthew 19:3-9 (ESV)

³ And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” ⁴ He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵ and said,‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast 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 separate.” ⁷ They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ⁸ He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹ And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Evening Sermon (Bonus)

Sex and the Law of God sermon text is Leviticus 18:1-22 (ESV).

Have a Wonderful Weekend

I pray each of you attends church this week that faithfully preaches the Word of God, both Law and Gospel. Pray for your elders.  Pray for our leaders. Pray for repentance and forgiveness daily.

Jude 1:24-25 (ESV)  24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

In Christ Jesus,
Jorge