What God Values | Zane Garza | Matthew 5:31–32

In this message from Canyon Ridge Baptist Church, Zane Garza dives into what God truly values by exploring Jesus's teaching on marriage and divorce in Matthew chapter 5. He contrasts the attitudes of Jesus's day with our modern culture, revealing how the sanctity of marriage has been weakened by a focus on convenience and personal benefit over genuine, lifelong commitment. Discover how Jesus reestablishes God's original design for marriage—a covenant relationship between one man and one woman for one lifetime—and learn about the true meaning of righteousness that begins in the heart.

Chapters: 0:01 - Welcome and a personal update on fostering and adoption

1:36 - The calling to give a family, not just get one

2:20 - The urgent need for foster parents in California

3:53 - How the breakdown of the family impacts society

4:44 - The Law's purpose is to protect God's institutions

5:48 - What is true righteousness? 6:51 - Loving God and loving your neighbor

7:55 - Jesus came to fulfill, not destroy, the Law

8:20 - The title of the message: What God Values

9:27 - Jesus addresses divorce in Matthew chapter 5

10:05 - Examining the Old Testament law in Deuteronomy 24

10:50 - The two rabbinic schools of thought on divorce

11:51 - The danger of indiscriminate divorce

13:12 - Comparing the culture of their day to our own

14:39 - The modern trend of cohabitation before marriage

16:32 - Why commitment must always precede benefit

18:05 - Marriage is a God-ordained institution

19:59 - The one biblical exception for divorce

21:13 - Jesus's teaching on divorce in Matthew 19

23:41 - Going back to creation to understand marriage

25:05 - God sets the parameters for marriage

26:19 - Moses's allowance for divorce and the hardness of hearts

27:59 - The meaning of the word "fornication"

28:25 - A challenging application for our culture: pornography

30:08 - Finding hope and forgiveness in Christ

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