a multitude of sin in the church...

~ A woman who has committed adultery over 20 years of marriage with her husbands best friends, married, single.. was asked, "Did you really think if he divorced his wife that God would bless the two of you if you got married?"

Her response, "Eventually he would have had to."

Thats the message the church is sending out, that's the example Christians are setting... Forgiveness without Repentance... ...Adultery without consequence... How can we fight to define marriage, when we fail to live by the biblical standards that God has set for it. Adultery and Homosexuality are in the same list of sexual sin. How can we wink at one and then rant about the other.

Kinda goes back to the white washed sepulchre thing...


~ It's not rocket science.. it's wisdom. And the Bible is full of it. The answers to this marriage thing are right in front of us in Scripture, it's just a matter of searching it out and asking God our about our specific situation. There may be extreme cases of abuse, at which point you would go to the church leaders.. they would apply Matthew 18.. and in a RARE instance, God may give peace for a se...paration or even a divorce if it cannot be resolved so that you and your children are safe.

But bottom line.. 99% of the reason Christians divorce these days is lust or discontent, selfishness. And the church sanctions it every time they marry adulterous ppl at the altar of God. (Send them to the courthouse, but don't pollute the house of God).


~ Divorce is biblical in the case of adultery... it is also biblical if the other person files against your wishes.. you are not bound to them if they choose to leave (unless you purposely drive them away)..

"12 To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. 13 If any woman has a husband who is a...n unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. 15 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. 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?"
(I Cor 7)

~ This passage also reveals the evil behind the lie "it's better for parents to divorce than for children to be in a home where there is arguing." Name a home or any healthy relationship where there is not arguing or conflict. Here, in this passage, it says the opposite is true... if you are married to a pagan, who wants to stay in the marriage, it is better for your kids if you remain and seek God to help you and your family than to divorce.

 

~ "3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What theref...ore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”"
(Matthew 19)

 

~ I just can't imagine how God views it when adulterous ppl are married at the altar of his church. And how are ppl to view that, if such a passage means nothing.. what other passages can be ignored.

 

 

~ Moses wrote in a rule that allowed divorce, but Christ said that was not God's plan for marriage... And he spoke of how God hates divorce..

And somehow, the church has returned to that vomit like a dog.. we allow divorce and remarriage at the drop of the hat. Someone lusts for someone else's spouse (both Christians), they sneak around having adulterous sex, get caught, they say "no one was spose...d to find out, sorry bout that..." they are assured of forgiveness, shuffle the deck, pick another partner, and dance down the aisle of the church with no consequence.. no consequence to them at least.

God is gonna judge the church for putting God's stamp of approval on adultery and divorce in the name of forgiveness.

 

 

~ How is it that the church teaches verse 4 so emphatically... but verse three is taught as unforgiveness.. we the church have enabled evil by glossing over repentance and redefining forgiveness..

"And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. 3 Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, 4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
(Luke 17)

 

 

~ "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working."
(James 5:16)

 

 

~ Thought for today: "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." — Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer and philosopher (1759-1797)

 

~ Sadly, it is usually only after it is too late that he realizes that he had God's best in his hands but traded it in a season of discontent.. only when that evil that he holds in his heart suddenly and forcefully slides the dagger home will he see it for what it truly is. But even then, the mercy of God will not abandon a broken and contrite spirit.. even then.. love and grace can heal a multitude of sin <3

~ We can all look around the church on any given sunday and half the ppl there are divorced for bogus reasons and with someone else.. most committed adultery while still married. And it has simply become acceptable. Do we just sit back and ignore it, put our stamp of approval on it as tho God says "oh well", or do we challenge one another to clean up? What's the answer? I don't have it, all I know is that if everyone just keeps looking the other way or winking at it, it's only gonna continue and more familes will be torn apart. It's heartbreaking and discouraging to a generation, when marriage is viewed as disposable. Yes, there is healing and forgiveness and second chances.. but someone set the standard.. someone claim the Word of God and declare a challenge for ppl to commit to it, to be full of courage rather than quitting, to be repentant rather than to make excuse.. we are all guilty of contributing to the breakdown somehow, we are all guilty of sin that has affected one another.. and it's going to take us as the whole to cry out to God for cleansing and for a return to who God says we are to be. Something's gotta change.