Deuteronomy 7:1-4 Mixed marriages in the bible is referring to intermarriage with people of other faith. There is only one race, the human race. Shem, Semitic, Asia, Mongoloid. Ham, Hamitic, Africa, Negroid. Japeth, Japethic, Europe, Caucasoid. Intermarriage in the Old Testament, Intermarriage in the New Testament.

1. MIXED MARRIAGES?
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2. Deuteronomy 7:1-4 "When the LORD your God brings
you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast
out many nations before you, the Hittites and the
Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and
the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven
nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when the
LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall
conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make
no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 Nor
shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give
your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for
your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from
following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the
LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you
suddenly.

4. DISTRIBUTION OF THE HUMAN RACE
SHEM
HAM

5. DISTRIBUTION OF THE HUMAN RACE
SHEM
Semitic
• Elam – Elamites
• Asshur - Assyrians
• Arphaxad -
Chaldeans
• Lud - Lydians
• Aram – Arameans
(Syrians)
ASIA
MONGOLOID
JAPETH
Japethic
• Gomer -
Cimmerians
• Magog - Scythians
• Madai - Medes
• Javan - Greeks
• Tubal – Tabali
(Northeast of Cilicia
• Meshech – Mushki
(near the Black Sea
• Tiras –Thracians
EUROPE
CAUCASOID
HAM
Hametic
• Cush – Ethiopians
• Mizraim –
Egyptians
• Put – Lybians
• Canaan –
Palestine
AFRICA
NEGROID

6. DISTRIBUTION OF THE HUMAN RACE
• Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve,
because she was the mother of all living.
• ONLY ONE RACE - Acts 17:26 And He has made from
one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the
face of the earth, and has determined their
preappointed times and the boundaries of their
dwellings,
• ALL DESCENDED FROM NOAH - Genesis 9:18-19 Now
the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of
Canaan. 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and
from these the whole earth was populated.

7. INTERMARRIAGE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Deuteronomy 7:1-3 "When the LORD your God brings
you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast
out many nations before you, the Hittites and the
Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and
the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven
nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when the
LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall
conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make
no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 Nor
shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give
your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for
your son.

8. THE REASON FOR THE PROHIBITION
• Deuteronomy 7:4 For they will turn your sons away from
following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the
LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you
suddenly.
• Exodus 34:16 and you take of his daughters for your sons,
and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make
your sons play the harlot with their gods.
• Judges 3:5-7 Thus the children of Israel dwelt among the
Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites. 6 And they took their daughters
to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons;
and they served their gods. 7 So the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their
God, and served the Baals and Asherahs.

9. THE REASON FOR THE PROHIBITION
• 1 Kings 11:1-4 But King Solomon loved many foreign
women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women
of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians,
and Hittites-- 2 from the nations of whom the LORD
had said to the children of Israel, "You shall not
intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they
will turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon
clung to these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred
wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines;
and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it was so,
when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his
heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to
the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father
David.

10. JESUS’ GENEALOGY
• Five women are in the genealogy of Jesus.
– Tamar
– Rahab
– Ruth
– Bathsheba
– Mary
• Two of them were of foreign origin.
– Rahab a Canaanite
– Ruth a Moabitess.
• Some believe Tamar was a Canaanite also

11. INTERMARRIAGE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• There were those who married those who were
Gentile or pagan.
– Boaz to Ruth a Moabitess
– Judah to Shu’a a Canaanite – Gen 38:2
– Joseph to Asenath an Egyptian
– Moses to Zipporah a Midianite
– Solomon to many foreign wives
• IF YOU INTERMARRY - Joshua 23:13 know for
certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive
out these nations from before you. But they shall be
snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides
and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this
good land which the LORD your God has given you.

12. INTERMARRIAGE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• Some were married to non-Christians
– 1 Corinthians 7:12-13 But to the rest I, not the
Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not
believe, and she is willing to live with him, let
him not divorce her. 13 And a woman who has a
husband who does not believe, if he is willing to
live with her, let her not divorce him.
– 1 Peter 3:1 Wives, likewise, be submissive to
your own husbands, that even if some do not
obey the word, they, without a word, may be
won by the conduct of their wives,

13. INTERMARRIAGE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• ENCOURAGEMENT TO MARRY IN THE LORD
– 1 Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound by law as long as
her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at
liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in
the Lord.
– 1 Corinthians 9:5 Do we have no right to take along
a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the
brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
– 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked
together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has
righteousness with lawlessness? And what
communion has light with darkness?

14. WHY DOES IT MATTER?
• Marriage is difficult even when you have everything
going for you.
• Every area of difference will be a drain on your
relationship.
• Your spirituality is the most important part of your
life you need support in it not resistance.
• Christianity is not easy with your mate pulling against
you toward the world.
• I have seen countless numbers of people drawn away
from the church by marrying outside of their faith.
• Christians who marry within their faith after pre-
marital counseling and attend church together 3
times weekly and pray together daily have a divorce
rate of 1 in 39,000.

15. IF YOU ARE IN A MIXED-FAITH MARRIAGE
• Stay married - 1 Corinthians 7:12-13
• Teach your mate - 1 Peter 3:1
– By the Word – study the bible with them
– By example – live a faithful Christian life
– Live a life led by the Spirit – Gal. 5:22-25
– Attend worship regularly – Heb. 10:25
• To obey to God.
• To be an example to your mate.
• To be encouraged to you in your faith.
• Bring your children up in the nurture and admonition
of the Lord – Eph. 6:4

16. GOD WARNS AGAINST MIXED-
FAITH MARRIAGES BECAUSE HE
WANT YOU TO BE IN HEAVEN
FOR ETERNITY
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ARE YOU ALLOWING
SOMETHING OR SOMEONE TO
KEEP YOU FROM BEING THERE?

18. TONIGHT’S SERMON
IMITATORS OF GOD