20/05/2026
ONE FLESH, ONE COVENANT
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh… What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
— Mark 10:7-9 KJV
When the Pharisees questioned Jesus concerning marriage and divorce, He did not introduce a new philosophy or modern interpretation. He pointed them back to the beginning. He exposed the real issue: the hardness of the human heart.
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.”
— Mark 10:5 KJV
That same hardness of heart is still alive today. Humanity continuously attempts to bend eternal truth in order to satisfy temporary desires. What God established from the beginning is now being debated, redefined, politicized, and justified through human reasoning.
Yet Jesus made the matter clear.
“A man” — singular.
“His wife” — singular.
From the foundation of creation, God established the pattern:
one man and one woman becoming one flesh.
Genesis confirms it:
“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
— Genesis 2:23 KJV
The union was intentional, sacred, and exclusive.
The Greek word translated as “wife” (γυναῖκα) refers universally to a woman. It does not create exceptions based on tribe, ethnicity, physical appearance, social status, age, or changing emotions. Whether she is from your village or another nation, whether beauty fades with age, childbirth, wrinkles, stretch marks, or sickness, covenant was never designed to be sustained only by physical attraction.
Love that survives only on beauty was never love to begin with.
Many people use Moses’ permission concerning divorce as justification for multiple wives or endless remarriage, but Jesus Himself explained why Moses permitted such things: because of the hardness of their hearts. Human rebellion forced concessions, but concessions were never God’s perfect design.
And even today, people continue searching for teachers who will baptize their desires with religious language.
“The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.”
— 2 Timothy 4:3 KJV
Notice the Bible says “after their own lusts.”
Not conviction.
Not truth.
Not holiness.
Lust.
That is why many no longer seek what is biblical; they seek what is comfortable. Some want Christianity without sacrifice, covenant without commitment, and truth without correction. Even some spiritual leaders now adjust doctrine to fit culture rather than calling culture back to God.
But truth does not evolve with society.
The Scripture is plain:
“A man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined unto his wife.”
The Bible did not say:
a man shall be joined unto another man,
or unto confusion,
or unto animals,
or unto every desire imagination produces.
God’s design was established from the beginning, and no amount of cultural pressure can rewrite what Heaven has already spoken.
It is simple.
It is straightforward.
And truth remains truth even when the world becomes uncomfortable with it.
