If you are going to build your house on the word of God, then you are going to have to know what God says:
Divorce/remarriage
Matthew 5:32 ... But I (Jesus) 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.
3 forms of sin
- man who divorces a "faithful" wife will be the cause of her adultery which she will commit if she remarries
- the faithful wife, who has been divorced by her husband, commits adultery if she remarries
- man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery
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In the New Testament Church the divorced woman commits adultery if she remarries.
The apostle Paul makes this clear in the following scripture:
I Corinthians 7:10-11
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord,
Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Paul is writing to the NT church and Paul says these "rules" are the commandment of the Lord for the NT church.
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If a man's wife is unfaithful, the man can remarry if he divorces her.
This is the only scriptural reason a man can remarry after divorce.
If the woman remarries after divorce, she commits adultery, according to Jesus.
And the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
There are different rules for men and women concerning divorce/remarriage according to Bible.
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I Corinthians 7:39 ... Paul to the NT church ...
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.
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Matthew 19:9 ... And I (Jesus) say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
- man who divorces a faithful wife commits adultery if he remarries
... but if his wife is "unfaithful" the husband can divorce such and
remarry without committing adultery
(this pertains only to men ... if the faithful wife remarries she commits adultery according to Jesus, Matthew 5:32, and her husband who divorced her is the cause of her adultery. Nevertheless it will be adultery if the faithful wife remarries)
(this pertains only to men ... if the faithful wife remarries she commits adultery according to Jesus, Matthew 5:32, and her husband who divorced her is the cause of her adultery. Nevertheless it will be adultery if the faithful wife remarries)
- man who marries the woman who is divorced commits adultery
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Mark 10:11-12
And HE (Jesus) saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
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Romans 7:1-3
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.
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A woman who
identified herself as a minister contacted me wanting to discuss her
mother's divorce situation with me. God said to me, "Focus on the scripture, not on the circumstance."
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What if the woman married / divorced / remarried before she was born again? She remains faithfully married to her second husband. But she also tells other people she committed adultery before she knew the truth and she warns those people not to do what she did.
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A man who is a pastor wanted to remarry and called asking me if there had been any change in the instructions concerning divorce / remarriage. I told him as far as I knew the Bible had not been rewritten.
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Go by what the scriptures say. If you are one of the people appointed to salvation, God will make HIS word clear to you as you pray asking HIM to show you truth and as you study the scriptures seeking pure truth in the sight of God.
At the time of sexual intercourse, the two become one flesh.
God created it this way.
How then do you divide one flesh after it is joined together?
Mark 10:4-9 ... And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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Homosexuals/lesbians:
Romans 1:18, 26-27
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
... For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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In the Old Testament there are many
scriptures pertaining to homosexuals. They are called "sodomites". In
each case, they are outcast and condemned by God. They are never approved.
Can homosexual or lesbians be saved? Of course they can. Just as an adulteress can be saved.
But Jesus told the woman taken in adultery to "go, and sin no more". (John. 8)
They would not be able to continue in their sins after being born again.
Hebrews 10:26-31 ...
Hebrews 10:26-31 ...
If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
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how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who
hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of
the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath
done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
For we know HIM that hath said,
Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And
again, The Lord shall judge his people.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Jesus warned the man HE had healed:
John 5:14 ... Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
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Fornication:
I Corinthians 6:15-18
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Flee fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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I Cornthians 7:2-3
To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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I Corinthians 6:9-11
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
(The world calls "drunkenness" a disease. God shows drunkards to be sinners.)
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Sins inside the church: Paul tells us what to do if "a brother" is a fornicator, covetous, an idolater, a railer, a drunkard, an extortioner.
I Corinthians 5:11 ... But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
In the case of an especially bad fornication where a man was committing fornication with his father's wife Paul instructed:
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. I Corinthians 5:4-5
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Revelation 21:7-8
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be MY son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 22:14-15
Blessed are they that do HIS commandments, that they may have
right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the
city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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Concerning the Bible ... A young man said to his mother, "But that's so legalistic."
When I heard this, I was grieved. I turned to God and said: "This really troubles me."
Instantly I was reminded by the Holy Spirit of the following:
Jesus said:
Matthew 7:13 ... Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
I rejoiced !
People of the world want freedom to sin and to be approved by other humans in their sin.
God wants to save us and free us from those sins.
After we are born again, we are new
creations. Surely none of us who are born again want to sin. Some may
sin through ignorance of the word of God. But we don't want to sin when
we belong to God. We want to serve God when we belong to God.
The restraint
that holds antichrist back from our lives is the word from God. As
long as we cling to that word, doing that word, antichrist cannot move
into our lives.
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Romans 6
How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into HIS death? Therefore
we are buried with HIM by baptism into death: that like as Christ was
raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with HIM: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over HIM. For in that HE died, he died unto sin once: but in that HE liveth, he liveth unto God.
... Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
... But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.