Marriage is a picture of the relationship between Christ and His church. The marriage bond between a man and a woman cannot be severed by man, it's a permanent spiritual glue placed there by God to make two people one until one of them dies.
This is true of salvation for the believer too. When we have been born again God changes us into one with Him. That relationship cannot be severed by anyone.
What God does cannot be undone by man. Neither marriage or salvation.
Mark 10:7-9 "…7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, no man can separate.”…"
The phrase; "let no man" is the old English expressing "no man can." This is important because many people believe marriage can be separated but it cannot. This union cannot be separated no matter what the sin in the lives of the marriage.
No man can separate the oneness of the Holy Spirit with His born again children. We can be disobedient and God will discipline us, but we cannot be severed from the Holy Spirit with Whom we have been sealed.
During the Passover, God told those who belonged to Him, the Israelites, to place the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and over the door. When the Holy Spirit saw this blood it would pass over the house and the house would be safe from the death of the firstborn. There was no measure of whether or not the people inside the dwelling was good enough.
When we become born again we are sealed in the blood of Christ. It is on us and the Spirit lives in us, we are not measured by our good deeds or how good we are as human beings, because there is no good in us. We are passed over for judgement because we have the blood of Jesus Christ over us.
Christ becomes our righteousness, He disciplines us when we stray, He instructs us which way to go and convicts us when we have wrong thoughts or actions. In other words, He is our everything.
However, we can ignore Him but we will see the consequences of our stubbornness through life's hardships. God will bring discipline upon us until we confess to be cleansed. Only those who are born again have an advocate with the Father. Those who are not born again, those who have not trusted Christ do not have an advocate and the Lord does not hear their prayers.
The only prayers of the unsaved that are heard are those of repentance toward God.
1 John 1:9
"9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
1 John 2:1-2 "1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father— Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.…"
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