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  • To God be the glory!

  • In the year 2000,

  • the United States Census Bureau predicted that

  • of all of the marriages taking place that year, 50% of them would

  • eventually end in divorce.

  • And this epidemic of divorce has caused such serious problems in our society

  • that everyone is touched,

  • even in the Lord's church.

  • You know, faithful elderships are constantly having to deal with this

  • heart-wrenching issue.

  • And Christians who are doing evangelism, sometimes feel like they've been hit by

  • a brick when the word "divorce" enters the conversation.

  • And maybe we don't teach on it, maybe we don't preach on the subject enough.

  • Seems like we preach on it a lot, but maybe it's not enough when you consider

  • how big this problem really is.

  • And so, today we want to present a very basic outline of what God has to say

  • on the subject of marriage, divorce and remarriage.

  • And then we're going to deal with some errors that relate to this subject.

  • Now, the clearest, most straightforward passage that I know in the Bible

  • on the subject of marriage, divorce and remarriage,

  • is in Matthew 19.

  • And so, that's where we're going to begin; and if you have a Bible in front of you,

  • you might want to follow along Matthew, chapter 19.

  • We're going to begin reading in verse number 1.

  • The Bible says: "Now it came to pass,

  • when Jesus had finished these sayings,

  • that He departed from Galilee

  • and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

  • And great multitudes followed Him,

  • and He healed them there.

  • The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him,

  • 'Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife or any reason?'"

  • Now, I want you notice that the text says that the Pharisees came to Him,

  • tempting Him.

  • Now, immediately we learn that

  • the question these Pharisees were asking Jesus

  • was not from a pure motive.

  • They weren't asking because they sincerely wanted to know the answer to the question.

  • They were asking because they hoped to trap Jesus.

  • You see, amongst the Jews of that day,

  • the people were greatly divided on this question of marriage and divorce.

  • And you know, it's interesting that many people today are divided on this question.

  • But I think it's worth noting, as you will see, there was a right answer.

  • And still today, there is a right answer to this question.

  • Now, there were two schools of thought amongst the Jewish leaders.

  • One thought was from the school of Hillel, a Jewish rabbi.

  • And this school taught that a man could divorce his wife for any reason,

  • for the slightest offense, or even if he just disliked her person or manner.

  • And they based their opinion on Deuteronomy, chapter 24, in verse 1

  • which says:

  • "... that she finds no favor in his eyes..." then he may give her a bill of divorcement.

  • Now, the other school of reasoning was that of the school of Shammai.

  • Those who held to this line of thought,

  • believed that a man could only divorce his wife for adultery.

  • And they based their thinking, interestingly, on the same passage of scripture,

  • Deuteronomy 24, and verse 1,

  • but on the section which says:

  • "... because he has found some uncleanness in her..." he may put her away.

  • And they interpreted this "uncleanness" to refer to adultery.

  • And so, these Pharisees came to Jesus, not looking for the truth,

  • but hoping to trap Jesus.

  • They hoped to turn one of the groups against him. So they asked him,

  • "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"

  • Now, the King James says, " for every cause."

  • Now listen to verse 4: "And He answered and said to them,

  • 'Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning "made them male and female,"

  • and He said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

  • and the two shall become one flesh"?

  • So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together,

  • let not man separate.'"

  • Now, I want you to the notice from verse 4,

  • that Jesus asked them the question,

  • "Have you not read...?"

  • They came to Him asking a question about marriage and divorce,

  • and Jesus went back to the source of authority.

  • Jesus did not say, "Well, I feel," or "I think,"

  • or... "You know, it seems to Me."

  • Jesus said, "Have you not read..."

  • He went back to the source of authority on marriage.

  • And, of course, that is the written Word of God.

  • And, you know, that seems like the obvious thing to do.

  • But many people don't do that today. Many people today

  • seem to turn to everything except the Bible to make decisions about marriage.

  • I had a man call the church building one time where I was preaching.

  • He wanted to know if I would perform his marriage.

  • He had been married two or three times previously,

  • and now he was getting married a fourth time and he wanted me to perform the ceremony.

  • And incidently, he'd been put away all three previous times.

  • And I told him that I could not perform his marriage

  • because he had no scriptural right to be married.

  • You know what he said to me?

  • He said, "You don't understand. This woman is a good woman." He says, "She's a good woman."

  • You see, apparently in his reasoning, the fact that she was a good woman

  • would make it okay.

  • But you see, Jesus did not appeal to emotions or strange reasoning or even his feelings.

  • Jesus said, "... Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning

  • 'made them male and female...'"

  • "... At the beginning..."

  • I want you to go back with me in your minds to the beginning.

  • Adam is alone in the garden of Eden. Genesis 2:15 says,

  • "Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it."

  • Now verse 18:

  • "And the Lord God said, 'It is not good that man should be alone; I will make

  • him a helper comparable to him.'" Verse 21

  • "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept;

  • and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

  • Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man and He made into a woman,

  • and He brought her to the man.

  • 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.'"

  • Now when Jesus said, "... Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning..."

  • Jesus was pointing back to this event. And he's going back to the beginning

  • when there was one man and one woman and they were joined together by God.

  • And so, when the Pharisees came to Him asking Him about divorce,

  • He referenced the very first marriage.

  • Alright, back to Matthew 19, and look at verse 6

  • He says, "... So then, they are no longer two but one flesh..."

  • You know, sometimes the question arises

  • when are two people actually married?

  • Are they actually married at the conclusion of the wedding ceremony,

  • or is it sexual union that constitutes marriage?

  • And absolutely, the answer to the question must be

  • when the ceremony is finished and the marriage license is signed, they are married.

  • Otherwise, you have a man and a woman going to spend their first night together

  • on their honeymoon, and they're not even husband and wife.

  • And it would also mean that everything leading up to the sexual act itself

  • would be sinful.

  • Well, Jesus said, "...they are no longer two but one flesh.

  • Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

  • You know, it's very interesting to me that the Pharisees came to Jesus asking,

  • "For what reason can a man divorce his wife?"

  • And Jesus answered, "Don't divorce."

  • He said, "... What God has joined together let not man separate"

  • Well, the Pharisees might have thought, "Alright, we've caught him.

  • He said, 'Don't divorce,' but Moses said it was okay."

  • Alright, here's the controversy, verse 7:

  • "They said to Him, 'Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce,

  • and to put her away?" Verse 8:

  • "He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts,

  • permitted you to divorce your wives,

  • but from the beginning it was not so."

  • Jesus said that when God design the home and the institution of marriage,

  • He never intended for it to be corrupted the way that men have made it.

  • He never intended for men to get tired of their wives and to put them away.

  • He never intended for adultery to take place and for fornication to occur.

  • But men and have brought about this corruption.

  • And "... Moses, because of your hardness of hearts" suffered divorce.

  • But this was not the way it was from the beginning.

  • Alright, now the exception to the rule, verse 9:

  • "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife,

  • except for sexual immorality..." the word here's "fornication,"

  • "... and marries another, commits adultery;

  • and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery."

  • Now, let me restate what Jesus is saying here.

  • He is saying, "He who divorces his wife and remarries commits adultery."

  • Now this is the rule: "He who divorces his wife for any reason and marries another

  • commits adultery." That's the rule.

  • And then He gives one exception to the rule.

  • That exception is, "If he puts her away for fornication."

  • Now the New King James says "sexual immorality,"

  • but that's not the best translation of the original Greek word.

  • Sexual immorality could refer to the viewing of pornography or lust of the heart.

  • But that's not the meaning of this word. The Greek word here is "pornea."

  • It refers to "elicit sexual intercourse."

  • The King James more accurately translates this word as "fornication."

  • This word includes a wide range of things.

  • Certainly it includes adultery and homosexuality and bestiality.

  • But this exception, fornication is the only one that Jesus made

  • that would allow a man to divorce his wife and remarry without sinning.

  • Let's apply this rule. Let's say that there's a man in the first century

  • and he marries a woman.

  • And a few years down the road, the man decides that he's going to divorce his wife.

  • And then later, after some time passes, he decides he wants to remarry.

  • How would this man know whether or not he has the right to get remarried?

  • He simply needs to ask himself,

  • "Do I fit into the exception of Matthew 19:9

  • Am I an individual who has put away my spouse for fornication?"

  • And if the answer is "no"

  • then that man cannot remarry or else he is an adulterer.

  • Now, what if the reason the man divorced his wife was "incompatibility."

  • What if he just said, "We just can't get along.

  • She's difficult and I don't enjoy being with her, and so I'm going to divorce her."

  • Could he remarry?

  • The answer is "no."

  • He did not meet the exception of Matthew 19:9.

  • Well, what if the man divorced his wife because he said,

  • "I just don't love her anymore."

  • You know, that's one of the popular reasons in our day,

  • "I just don't love her anymore."

  • Well, under these circumstances he could not remarry,

  • because he doesn't meet the exception of Matthew 19:9.

  • Now, somebody might say,

  • "Well, that sounds awfully strict. You know, that seems very, very difficult

  • for the Lord to be laying out something like that."

  • Well apparently, the Lord's disciples thought the same thing.

  • I want you to listen to verse 10, listen to their response:

  • "His disciples said to Him, 'If such is the case of the man with his wife,

  • it is better not to marry.'"

  • Now, the disciples were essentially saying,

  • "This is really strict. If this is the way it is,

  • maybe a man would be better off not to get married."

  • Now, for those people today who will say,

  • "I can't believe God's law would be that strict," or, as some people have said,

  • "I just can't believe the Lord would expect me to live the rest of my life unmarried,"

  • they need to go back and look at the comments of the Lord's disciples.

  • Because they recognized that God's law on marriage is very strict.

  • Now, listen to Jesus' response in verse 11:

  • "But He said to them, 'All cannot accept this saying...'"

  • Now what saying is He talking about?

  • Some people think He's talking about the law that He has just stated

  • pertaining to marriage.

  • I don't think that's it.

  • I think he's responding to the disciple's statement.

  • They said, "Hey, this is really strict. Maybe it's better not to get married."

  • And he says that doesn't work for everyone. Not everyone can accept that.

  • Keep reading.

  • He says, "'... but only those to whom it has been given...'"

  • That is, some people can take that route,

  • or maybe I should say, not take that route.

  • Okay, verse 12:

  • "For there are eunuchs

  • (people who remain sexually inactive, who can't engage in the intimacies of marriage)

  • who were born thus from their mother's womb,

  • and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men..."

  • That is, this has physically been done to them.

  • You know, sometimes this has happened in history,

  • individuals like Daniel and his three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego,

  • were physically maimed

  • so as to take away their ability for the intimacies of marriage.

  • He says, "... and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs

  • for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He who is able to accept it,

  • let him accept it."

  • Now, what does this last part refer to: "those who have made themselves eunuchs

  • for the kingdom of heaven's sake...?"

  • Well, this could refer to several different things,

  • but I believe at least one example of this would include people who have

  • lost the scriptural right to get married

  • and so, for the kingdom of heaven's sake,

  • that is so they can go to heaven,

  • they remain unmarried.

  • They understand the commandment of Matthew 19:9,

  • and that they have no choice but to remain single if they desire to be right with the Lord.

  • And so, for the kingdom's sake,

  • they have made themselves eunuchs. That is, they remain celibate.

  • Now friends, that's the basic outline of God's law on marriage, divorce and remarriage.

  • Now, with this established, let's discuss some of the errors

  • that are being taught on this particular subject.

  • Okay, here's the first one, error number 1.

  • Some people incorrectly teach that: "Baptism washes away unscriptural marriages."

  • Now, the idea behind this doctrine

  • is that if a person entered into an unscriptural and adulterous marriage

  • before he became a Christian, that,

  • after he is baptized, or when he is baptized,

  • that adulterous marriage becomes a nonadulterous marriage

  • and he can then remain in that marriage relationship.

  • And somebody might say, "Well you know, that kind of makes sense because

  • baptism washes away all sins." But friends, you see,

  • there's a major problem with this and it's called "repentance."

  • Before a person can be forgiven of any sin, he must first repent.

  • That is true of stealing.

  • It's true of idolatry.

  • It's true of lying. It's true of homosexuality.

  • And it is true of an adulterous marriage.

  • You see, in God's eyes a person living in an adulterous marriage

  • is living in constant sin.

  • And every time that man sleeps with his wife, he's committing adultery.

  • And in order to be forgiven of that sin, he must stop committing it.

  • In fact, think about it this way.

  • Let's say that you have two men who are married, two homosexuals.

  • And they are later baptized.

  • Does baptism change a homosexual marriage into an honorable one?

  • No, it doesn't. Why not?

  • Because they haven't repented. The sin continues.

  • You see, repentance demands that they stop living in sin.

  • What about a polygamous marriage?

  • Will baptism change a polygamous marriage into an honorable one?

  • And again, the answer is "no."

  • Repentance demands that they stop the polygamy.

  • You see, the point that we're making is

  • that repentance demands that a person stop the sin.

  • And certainly, an adulterous marriage is not an exception to this rule.

  • And so, two people in an unscriptural, adulterous marriage have to cease that relationship.

  • Okay, error number 2.

  • A second error that some people teach is that:

  • "Non-Christians are not amenable to the law of Christ."

  • And basically, the doctrine goes like this:

  • they'll say Matthew 19 and the laws of marriage

  • are part of God's covenant law for Christians.

  • And so, before a person becomes a Christian, they'll say,

  • "God's covenant laws don't apply to him."

  • And so, they would say,

  • "If a man enters into an unscriptural marriage before he becomes a Christian,

  • he's not sinning." Because they would say

  • he's not in violation of Matthew 19, because it didn't apply to him.

  • And even if he has been married and divorced, unscripturally,

  • ten times before he becomes a Christian, that's irrelevant.

  • Because they'll say it didn't apply to him at that time.

  • He can keep the wife that he has at the time that he's baptized.

  • Because at that moment, they would say,

  • God's law concerning marriage begins to be applicable to him.

  • Friends, this is an absolutely false position.

  • "God's law applies to everyone."

  • Acts 17 and 30 says, "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked,

  • but now commands all men everywhere to repent."

  • Now, the point of this passage is that, in the past, there were things God overlooked,

  • especially with regard to the Gentiles.

  • But now, "All men are amenable to the law of Christ."

  • You know, it's sometimes argued that there are certain laws that apply to Christians,

  • but do not apply to non-Christians.

  • The argument they'll make is this. They'll give the example...

  • they'll say, "The command to partake of the Lord's Supper",

  • they'll say, That's only for people in a covenant relationship with God."

  • And so, they would say the same is true, therefore, for other things, for example,

  • marriage.

  • Friends, this is a silly argument.

  • The truth is that God has commanded all men everywhere world to repent

  • and to obey the Gospel.

  • And then he expects them to engage in all of the appropriate acts of worship that follow.

  • And just because a man hasn't properly yet prepared himself

  • doesn't mean that God's law doesn't apply to him.

  • That would be like saying that a man who doesn't believe yet

  • isn't commanded to be baptized.

  • Of course he's commanded to be baptized.

  • Now, he needs to believe first, but the command to be baptized still applies.

  • Friends, "God's law on marriage applies to all of humanity."

  • In 1 Corinthians 6, verse 9 and 10, the Bible says:

  • "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?

  • Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,

  • nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners

  • will inherit the kingdom of God." Now, listen to verse 11:

  • "And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified,

  • but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God."

  • Now, did you notice that they were viewed as "adulterers?"

  • Did you notice the word "adulterers?"

  • Even before they became Christians, they were viewed as adulterers.

  • Friends, that means that God's marriage law applied to them

  • before they were washed and sanctified, before they were baptized.

  • Okay, let's move to a third one. Error number 3.

  • Some people will suggest that, if fornication occurs,

  • then both parties in the marriage are free to remarry.

  • Friends, this is not taught in the Bible.

  • It is sometimes argued by these folks that if the innocent party,

  • the one who didn't commit adultery, is freed from the marriage bond

  • and is therefore free to remarry, then they'll say the guilty party must also be free.

  • And they would say because if the marriage is dissolved for one,

  • it must of necessity, be dissolved for the other.

  • But Matthew 19:9 is written in such a way as to release the innocent

  • while binding the guilty.

  • It reads, "... whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality (fornication),

  • and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced

  • commits adultery." And, if you are the guilty party,

  • you are not one who has put away your spouse for fornication.

  • Therefore, you cannot remarry.

  • God's law has restricted you in this way.

  • Friends, Matthew 19:9 is written to protect the innocent,

  • not to release the guilty.

  • In fact, just imagine with me the implications of this if this doctrine were true.

  • It would mean that if a man were tired at of his marriage.

  • he could just cheat on his wife so that she would divorce him,

  • and then he could have God's approval to remarry.

  • It would mean that God would let me remarry,

  • and all I would have to do to get that right is to commit adultery. It's absurdity.

  • Okay, here's another error. Here's error number 4.

  • It is suggested by some people

  • that if children have been conceived into an adulterous marriage,

  • that God would then desire for you to keep that home intact and not to separate, not to divorce.

  • In fact, on one occasion, someone handed me a note with this question on it

  • and it was phrased like this:

  • "If a couple marries and has children and then years later,

  • discovers they are in an unscriptural marriage,

  • does God expect them to break their home? Doesn't God hate divorce?

  • Do two wrongs make a right?"

  • Well, that's the way they stated it.

  • And certainly, two wrongs don't make a right.

  • But that's not what we're talking about here.

  • If a person is living in an unscriptural marriage, that is wrong.

  • But separating from an unscriptural marriage is not wrong.

  • It's never wrong to stop living in sin. As a matter of fact, it's required.

  • Matthew 19:9 says that these people are living in adultery,

  • and they cannot continue in that with God's blessing.

  • In fact, let's think about it this way. Let's say that there are two people

  • who are homosexuals, and they are living in a state that recognizes homosexual marriages.

  • And, let's say that one of them learns and obeys the Gospel.

  • And so he understands he can't remain in this marriage

  • and that it is a sinful relationship in the eyes of God.

  • Divorcing, or separating, is not a wrong thing to do under those circumstances.

  • In fact, they cannot continue in that situation and be pleasing to God.

  • And the same thing is true with regard to an unscriptural marriage of a man and a woman.

  • Now, the question asked, What if children are involved? What if you have a family?"

  • Certainly that makes it more difficult from an emotional standpoint.

  • But it doesn't change the fact that the marriage is an unscriptural, unlawful one.

  • Let me give you an Old Testament example that might help shed some light on this situation.

  • In the Old Testament,God did not permit His people, the Jews,

  • to marry people of heathen nation's.

  • Deuteronomy 7, verse 3 says: "Nor shall you make marriages with them.

  • You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

  • 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."

  • Now, some of the Israelites ignored God's law about this and they did it anyway.

  • And they married wives of the heathen, and they even had children with them.

  • But did that change God's law with regard to the people they could marry?

  • Listen to Ezra, chapter 10, verses 10 and 11:

  • "Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them,

  • 'You have transgressed and have taken pagan wives, adding to the guilt of Israel.'"

  • Now, listen to verse 11: "'Now therefore, make confession to the Lord God of your fathers,

  • and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives.'"

  • You see, these people had violated the law of God.

  • And they could not "remain in a relationship contrary to the will of God,"

  • with his approval, whether or not there were families or children involved in this or not.

  • And neither can people today do that.

  • You know, it's true that God hates divorce.

  • God hates the putting away of a scriptural and proper marriage.

  • But, right now we're talking about a relationship that He never approved of in the first place.

  • I might add this.

  • Even if the couple does what's right and they separate and and there's a family,

  • even if they separate, that daddy should still support and take care of his children.

  • Because that's the right thing to do.

  • Okay, a fifth thing that some people would suggest is that if you are in a scriptural marriage,

  • a God-approved marriage, and you decide you want to divorce,

  • for a reason other than fornication... that is, maybe you're just not happy in the marriage,

  • they would say that you can do that. And you can have God's approval to do that,

  • so long as you don't remarry. That is, you can divorce, with God's approval,

  • That is, you can divorce, with God's approval, if you want to, just remain unmarried.

  • But friends, the fact is, that simply is not true.

  • When you enter into marriage, God joins you to that other person.

  • And along with the joining, comes all of the obligations of marriage.

  • Ephesians 5:25 says: "Husbands, love your wives..."

  • It doesn't say, "Unless you decide to leave her,

  • and you can do that if you want to, just remain unmarried."

  • 1 Peter 3:7 says: "... dwell with your wife according to knowledge..."

  • Dwell with her according to knowledge, and again, it doesn't say,

  • "Unless you decide to walk away and then just remain unmarried."

  • Ephesians 5:24 and Titus, chapter 2 and verse 4,

  • commands that wives love and be subject to their own husbands. Again, it doesn't say,

  • "Unless things get really tough and then you can just remain unmarried."

  • If you decide that you're simply going to divorce, and no adultery has occurred,

  • then you are in violation of all of these passages.

  • God has not separated you because no fornication has occurred.

  • In 1 Corinthians, chapter 7 and verse 10, the Bible says:

  • "... Let not the wife depart from her husband."

  • The ESV says it this way: "To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord):

  • the wife should not separate from her husband."

  • Now, I had a study with a family one time, and they were contemplating divorce.

  • And so I pointed out to them that the only reason that God allows divorce is for fornication.

  • And one of the family members spoke up and said, "No, no, no. That's not right.

  • The Lord allows divorce. But he only allows divorce and remarriage for fornication.

  • You can divorce if you want to. You just have to remain single."

  • That's what the person said.

  • Friends, you can't just divorce if you want to. It's a sin against God. God hates divorce.

  • Jesus said: "... what therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

  • And God will not unjoin, or dissolve, that marriage

  • for a reason other than fornication.

  • And so, if I'm unhappy in my marriage, I can't just decide that I'm going to abandon my marriage,

  • and just remain single, and that God's going to be okay with that decision,

  • because He's not.

  • Malachi 2 says that: "... God hates divorce..."

  • And the only time that I can get a divorce with God's approval, and thus without sinning,

  • is if I'm putting away my spouse for fornication.

  • Error number 6.

  • If a person's spouse abandons him or her,

  • then he or she is freed from the marriage and would thus have the right to remarry.

  • And, they would even say that 1 Corinthians 7:15 teaches this.

  • Friends, this is absolutely incorrect, and it is not taught in the Bible.

  • This is what 1 Corinthians 7:15 says:

  • "But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart.

  • A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases:

  • but God has called us to peace."

  • Now, some people have suggested that the Apostle Paul here is

  • giving a second reason that a person made divorce and remarry, with God's approval,

  • and that is abandonment.

  • And so they would say, "If your spouse just runs off,

  • then you're free to remarry with God's approval.

  • And they believe that the phrase "not under bondage" in this verse

  • suggests that you are free from the marriage. You're not under bondage to the marriage,

  • and thus you are free to remarry.

  • Well, if that were true, then the phrase "except it be for fornication"

  • stated by Jesus in Matthew 19:9, would be contradicted.

  • And secondly, the very text of 1 Corinthians 7, states the opposite of this.

  • What if your spouse abandons you? What do you do? What is your situation?

  • Listen to verses 10 and 11:

  • "Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord:

  • A wife is not to depart from her husband. But if she does depart,

  • let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband.

  • And a husband is not to divorce his wife."

  • And so God commands the spouse not to leave.

  • But if she does sin, and she leaves anyway, He says, "Don't divorce her."

  • You are still married to that person. You are not free from that marriage.

  • So, somebody says, "What does 1 Corinthians 7:15 mean?"

  • Let me read this to you out of the English Standard Version:

  • "But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so.

  • In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved.

  • God has called you to peace."

  • Friends, what it means is this. If your unbelieving spouse says,

  • "You quit this Christianity stuff or I am leaving.

  • You let go of Christianity and God or I'm out of here."

  • The Lord is saying, "Let the person go. You're not a slave to him or her.

  • Be faithful to the Lord."

  • Friends, I'm not going to tell you that all of the marriage/divorce scenarios are simple.

  • Because I have certainly heard some that were difficult to sort through.

  • But I know that God's basic law about marriage and divorce is not hard to understand.

  • It says:"Stay married."

  • And there's one exception, granted by God, as a concession to the innocent,

  • and that is fornication.

  • You can put away your spouse for fornication and remarry

  • with God's approval.

  • Now, why does God allow this one exception?

  • I think it's because He knows how it feels.

  • When we commit spiritual adultery against Him, He knows what it feels like.

  • The law of God is: "One man

  • and one woman

  • for life.�

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關於...婚姻、離婚和再婚的真相 (The Truth About... Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage)

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