Chapter 50 begins with the LORD demanding “the bill of your mother’s divorcement whom I have put away” (50:1) Malachi 2:15 and 16, “Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that He hateth putting away.” Our Lord said in Matthew 19:8, “Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.” Jer. 3:14 says, “Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.” God still considered Himself Israel's husband (Isa. 54:5; 62:5). Jeremiah 3:25 says, “We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
John 15:10, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in His love.”
Hebrews 5:8 says, “Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.” If our Lord needed to depend upon God the Father, how much more do we? The Hebrew name for “LORD God” is “Jehovah Adonai,” and this means “Sovereign LORD. ”We must trust God in everything. We must obey God in everything (cf. Isa. 50:10b). |
