Any wife after the first one as long as the first wife still lives is adultery. Second marriages are not seen as legitimate marriages in the eyes of God.
I know this is a very hard saying in a culture such as ours when divorce and remarriage seem to be the sacred cow that no one wants to touch.
There are many sins in the modern church that have been accepted as non-sins, but this is wrong. When we disobey God's word we are sinning.
Jesus Christ said: "if you remarry you are committing (an ongoing act of) adultery. The adultery does not go away just because of the remarriage by the law of the land.
The law of the land does not dictate our morality as born again believers, God does.
Just because something is allowed by the government does not mean God endorses it.
The government allows for abortion, the brutal killing of babies half out of the womb, but most Christians would say that is not right no matter what the government says. And yet, these same people will accept and even endorse divorce and remarriage, that God says is adultery. They will even rage and attack our character for saying what God says.
Luke 16:18 "18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
The only exception for divorce is in the book of Matthew written to the Jews for the engagement period, it does not apply to marriage. In the Jewish custom, a person had to have a certificate of divorcement from a betrothal, (engagement), if one of the parties had been unfaithful. This passage has been used in our time to justify divorce and remarriage when it has nothing to do with the marriage, except that it prevents the marriage from ever taking place.
God said He hates divorce! Why would a born again believer do what they know God hates. God also provided for forgiveness for those who have confessed their sin, all sin can be forgiven except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. A divorce is an act of violence against the spouse.
Malachi 2:16-17 "16“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel, “and I hate when a man covers himself and his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. Therefore guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith. 17 You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them, He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”…"
God died for us WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS, can we not obey God in remaining with a spouse who is not perfect?!!! To divorce a spouse because they are not measuring up to your own idea of perfect is the same as saying "I am perfect and deserve a perfect spouse."
Those who take another person's spouse are heaping hurt and pain upon that spouse, removing the possibility of reconciliation for the "made one flesh" couple, are stealing another person's spouse.
A second spouse after the divorce is not a "one flesh" union. God will not make two people "into one" who already have been made one with someone else.
God does not go around making three people one with three other people, He only does it for the first marriage with the first spouse. The "oneness" condition is a sort of spiritual glue that cannot be dissolved by man. Hopping from bed to bed with a legalized piece of paper does not fool God!
Why do so many people pick and choose which things to obey? The answer is clear, they are not dedicated to Christ in the things they like to do, but will be dedicated if the thing Christ wants is what they want.
Our culture is full of disobedience and those who will rage when they are shown through scripture the truth of God's Word. Trying telling a child with candy that he has to give it back and that he must not have that candy will cause a tantrum. This is what we are dealing with in our day about many things, not just divorce and remarriage.
Bratty children who will only obey when they are getting what they want will rage in anger when we say they should not have it.
I have not given my opinion, it is God Who mandated these things and for our own good. Consider too that He mandated them for the good of the children from a "one-flesh union."
If you feel so inclined as to argue with me, don't bother, take your argument to God, it was He Who made the rules.
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