Divorce/Remarriage: What the Bible Teaches
Jesus said … Mk. 10 … 2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked HIM, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
3 And HE answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter. 11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Mt. 5:32 … 32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery:and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
The apostle Paul said the following is a “commandment of the Lord” for the New Testament church.
I Cor. 7 … 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Romans 7 … 1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress : but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
I Cor. 7 … to the NT church … 39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Churches today have set up another doctrine to replace the Holy Scripture and to explain scripture away and to please people, and to get large numbers of people to attend their church groups … This is antichrist in the churches today as the apostle Paul spoke of in II Thess. 2. Paul said this would happen before Jesus returns.
II Thess 2 … 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
(The falling away: Churches were going to “fall away” from scripture.)
Paul explained he knew after his departure, this would happen in the church group.
Acts 20 … 25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which HE hath purchased with HIS own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Back to II Thess. 2 concerning antichrist in the churches …
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Antichirst is not one man … Antichrist is a spirit in man and that spirit is “anti” Christ, opposing the WORD of God which is Christ.
The doctrine permitting divorce and remarriage and explaining away the Holy Scriptures set forth in the Bible is one of the main movements of antichrist in today’s church groups.
Several years ago, I attended a dinner at a museum group.
The organizers of the dinner had pre-planned seating with name cards at our dinner location.
I was seated next to a man who was wearing around his neck the largest cross I have ever seen.
This man identified himself as retired pastor at Indiana Baptist Church. He began speaking of that church group. He said they had a big problem. There were so many people coming to church there that they couldn’t seat all the people. They had added onto the building and still didn’t have enough room for all the people who attended.
I said to him, “If you would begin sharing what Jesus said … that the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery … about ½ of the people in your congregation would get up and leave you and you would have plenty of room to seat the ones who remained.”
This man was very shocked. I got up and left the dinner immediately. I didn’t stay for the meal.
If you want to build your house on the Word of God, start with these words of Jesus.
Mt. 5:32 … 32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery:and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
-If a man divorces “a faithful wife” and she marries another man, this man who divorced the “faithful wife” will be the cause of her adultery which she commits if she remarries.
-The divorced woman will commit adultery when she remarries.
-The man who marries the divorced woman will commit adultery
The apostle Paul makes it clear this is a commandment of the Lord for the NT church …
I Cor. 7 … 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:and let not the husband put away his wife.
In our little church group, a man filed suit for divorce against his wife. When I learned this, I called him and asked him if his wife was committing fornication. He said no she had been faithful to him. I explained the only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife was if she was committing fornication. He dropped the divorce proceedings.
Do you want to build your house on the Bible? If so, you have to do what the Bible says. You cannot explain away the Bible and do the scripture. Churches try to do this. But it will not work.
The Bible must be more important to us than anything or anyone.
The fulfillment of the scripture was so important to Jesus that HE went to the cross to fulfill the scripture.
Mt. 26 … 53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and HE shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
A woman in our little church group divorced and remarried before she was born again. She was a church goer but was not born again. At that time she wanted to marry her 2nd husband, she and this man went to a Methodist preacher to see if it was alright for her to remarry. The preacher said it was okay for her to remarry.
This woman, now born again, was very bitter when she told this preacher had said she could remarry.
The Holy Spirit said to me, “Wasn’t she committing fornication with the man she planned to marry at the time she went to the preacher?”
So I asked her: “Weren’t you committing fornication with the man you wanted to marry at the time you went to the Methodist preacher to ask if it was alright for you, as a divorced woman, to marry?”
She replied: “Yes”
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