If the Holy Spirit has led you, He will never deny His own Word. If you are remarrying after a divorce it was not the Holy Spirit Who led you, it was the comfort of the devil that motivated you. Or it was your flesh that justified sin to feel acceptable in it. The devil is always present to cause feelings of confusion and justification for disobedience against God.
Those who have ignored the principles of the Bible to sin against God, His Holy Spirit will go silent in your life, you will be without His protection and comfort. Sin is never blessed by God. A marriage that defies the Word of God is not blessed by Him. Eventually, the heart becomes hardened the longer one justifies their own sin.
Matthew 13:58
"58 And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief."
Ignoring the Word of God to do your own thing is unbelief. Not taking God seriously at His word, demonstrates lack of faith, perhaps even showing there has been no authentic salvation experience.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 "…10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. 11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife."
I have heard people say; "the Lord brought me a wonderful spouse after my divorce", let me warn you that it was not God Who brought that spouse but Satan.
Isaiah 1:15-16 " 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. 16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!"
Also remember that anyone who supports sin against God participates in the sins of others will be held accountable for that support of sin. Even if we do not do the sin oursleves, if we support the sinner we have also sinned against God.
2 Thessalonians 3:14-15
"If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother."
1 Corinthians 5:11
"But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one."
Romans 1:32 "32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them."
Proverbs 28:4
"Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them."
We see what happens when Christians remain silent about sin in the church and even in the culture. The sin ignored by the Christians grows quickly. Not only does the sin grow but the acceptance to the point that causes the culture as a whole to be hostile to anyone who will speak out against it.
Divorce and remarriage has been accepted in our culture as common as legitimate marriage. There are more marriages now that have ended in divorce as well as shack-up relationships. 50% of all marriages in the United States ends in divorce, half, and the same statistics are in the church. Probably because the world has now taken over the church.
It is my guess that most people in the organized church have never been born again, even the pastors who are paid by those in the pews may not be saved.
"Pew people" as one preacher put it, follow the pastors who say what the pew peole want to hear. Since the pastor is hired by the people the pastor becomes keenly aware that if the people in the pews do not like him, they can fire him.
This is another reason God never commanded "paid hirlelings" to lead in a church gathering. HIrelings in the church is also disobedience against God's order in the church, the reason things have progressed to the point they have, full of sin and angst.
The more we ignore the Bible as our standard, the more we ignore the Bible. The Bible has become a book of suggestions that the pretenders feel free to ignore.
Many pastors are divorced and remarriage, how could these pastors ever teach the people to adhere to covenant marriage when they have not obeyed God themselves.
How could a paid pastor who is divorced ever preach against sin, any sin, while he lives in it without guilt.
This is one of the reasons, there are many, that I believe we are living in the last days.
2 Timothy 3:5 "
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. "
The power of God is in the written Word of God. Jesus Christ is the very essence of His Own Word. If we ignore His word we ignore Him. He becomes insignificant to anyone who want to defend their sin and negate His Word.
Many people will claim to be "Christians" but have little interest in obeying the Bible.
We have divorced and remarried people in the pews along with those who suppport them.
We have those who are disrespectful to their parents, those who have placed things and money above loving relationships, those who treat authority with contempt, those who gossip and lie frequently but in all these sins few people ever repent of them to be cleansed and in most cases those who practice these sins defend themselves and rage against those who would correct them to help them grow in holiness.
1 John 1:9 " 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power."
A born again believer feels guilt when they have been mean or rude. But a pretender who thnks they are saved but does not have the Holy Spirit, feels justifed through their own concoted stories. They must continually play the bully and make up reasons to hate those who correct them. They are self-righteous, but they do not have the righteousness of God.
May each one reading this evaluate themselves to correct what might be wrong in their walk. May those who are pretenders compare their attitudes and actions with those of Christ's commands, to learn if they have ever been born again.
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