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DEAR BELOVED IN CHRIST JESUS Grace, Peace, and
Mercy be with you from GOD the FATHER and from the Lord JESUS CHRIST. Walk in
Truth as we have received commandment from the FATHER. Love one another. And
this is love, that we walk, in his commandments (2John.: 3, 4, 5, 6, 9).
How can we love by walking in God's commandments
if we don't know and understand God's commandments? This is the very heart
of the question, "What Is Marriage?"
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment (Mt.22:37,38). This
is the love of God, that we keep his commandments (l John.5: 3). Hereby we do
know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that says, I know him,
and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is
not in him (l
John.2:3-4).
In the beginning was the WORD. In Him was life; and
the life was the light of men. And the WORD was made flesh (JESUS the only
begotten of GOD), and lived among us, full of Grace and Truth (John.1: 1, 4,
14). GOD sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world. He that
believeth on him is not condemned. This is the condemnation: men love
darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil, and do not want to be
reproved. But he that doeth truth comes to the light (John.3: 16-21).
Not the hearers of the law, but the
doers of the law shall be justified before GOD (Romans.2: 13). He is a Jew
(child of GOD), which is one inwardly doing the law of GOD from the heart, in
the spirit (of the law) not by the letter (of the law), whose praise is of GOD
not of men (Rom.2: 29).
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BIBLICAL
CONCEPTS OF MARRIAGE |
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7.
MARRIAGE
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1.
MARRIAGE IS
HOLY (What GOD does is HOLY) |
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HUSBAND |
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2.
MARRIAGE
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Herodias, Rahab, Bathsheba, Michal, Gomer |
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MARRIAGE IS
LIFE LONG |
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marriage is revealed in the old testament |
(That is as long as both live) |
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GOD's
PICTURE OF MARRIAGE is revealed |
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What
these BIBLICAL terms mean? |
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in the New Testament |
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Marriage is
HOLY. Adultery is SIN. |
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word
study (Put Away:) (Commits Adultery) |
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TWO BECOME
ONE FLESH |
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11. HOW DO WE APPLY THESE TRUTHS? |
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MORE TWO, but one. |
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WHO NOT TO MARRY |
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DO NOT ALLOW man to put apart. |
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ONLY FOR BELIEVERS? |
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JESUS'
teaching on Marriage |
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NOT UNDER BONDAGE? |
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(disciples are shocked) |
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IF ONE COMMITS ADULTERY |
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What Moses Said
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ALL THINGS ARE NEW |
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MARRIAGE
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BIBLICAL CONCEPTS OF MARRIAGE
1. MARRIAGE IS HOLY (What GOD does is HOLY)
GOD made a wife for Adam. And the Lord God said,
it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help
meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
slept: and God took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof,
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and (God)
brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken
out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave
unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And
they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis.2:
18,21-25. What therefore God hath joined together, Mt. 19:6 ,
Mk.10: 9. And if a virgin marry she hath not sinned. l Corinthians.7:
28. Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but
whoremongers and adulterers God will Judge. Hebrews.13: 4.
2. MARRIAGE IS ONLY FOR THIS EARTHLY LIFE (not in heaven)
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall
she be of the seven? For they all had her (married her). Jesus answered and
said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage,
but are as the angels of God in heaven Matthew.22: 28.
In the resurrection therefore, when they shall
rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife. And Jesus
answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the
scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they shall rise from the
dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage but are as the angels
which are in heaven Mark 12:23-25.
3. MARRIAGE IS LIFE LONG (That is as long as both
live)
Mark.10: 11,12 And he said unto them, Whosoever
shall put away his wife, and marry another, commiteth adultery against her. And
if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she commiteth
adultery.
Romans 7:1-3 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? For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he lives: but If the husband be dead, she is loosed
from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband lives, 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.
1 Corinthians 7: 10,11,39 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. 39 The wife is bound by the law as
long as her husband lives: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to
be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.
Malachi.2: 13-15 and this have you done again, covering
the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch
that he regards not the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at
your hand. Yet you say, wherefore? "WHY???"
Because the Lord has been witness between
thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously
(divorce, depart from or be unfaithful to): yet (in spite of your
divorce) she is thy companion, and the wife of your covenant.
And did he not make you one?... Therefore take
heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his
youth. For the Lord, the God of Israel says that he hates putting away
(divorce).
? DO you hear that? Leave your wife and God does not hear your prayers.
What these BIBLICAL terms mean?
{Marriage} is a Creation of God to join a man and a woman, who
has no living husband, as one for the rest of their lives. And it is God who set the
rules for marriage. To go through a marriage ceremony or to marry
someone that God says you can't marry does not make you one-flesh in the eyes
of God even if man and his laws say you are.
Here are two examples of marriages God does not accept.
Matthew.5: 32 says: Whoever shall marry a divorced woman commits
adultery. And Mark.5: 17 says: for Herod had married Herodias.
Just because you marry someone, that does not make them your spouse. God says a
man can Not marry a man, can Not marry his mother, and he can Not marry an
other man's wife.
{One Flesh} is something God does- that lasts a lifetime- in making
a man and a woman one flesh as husband and wife.
For one to lie with another (a human act) does not make two people "one
flesh" (a work of God).
For a man to lie with his wife is honorable and godly, and for a man to lay
with someone not his wife is sin; but neither human act makes them
one-flesh.
An ungodly act of fornication or adultery does not make anyone married, and
such an act of sin can not make anyone "one-flesh" either. Laying
with anyone is not what makes one married. A harlot is a harlot because of what
she does, not because she is married or not married. Only God is able to make
two people "one-flesh". And god will not do so against his laws.
{Adultery} is to lay with someone of the
opposite sex, who is not your spouse, or to divorce and marry another.
(Mark.10:11-12)
{Fornication} is harlotry (including adultery
and incest) Strong's N. T. #4202 Fornication is also any sexual perversion (sex
with an animal, man with man, child with parent, ...).
{Hardness Of
Heart} is
destitution of spiritual perception Strong's N.T. # 4541 (ignorance by choice)
stupidity or callousness: blindness Strong's N. T.# 4457.
{Let Not \ Let
None} puts the
responsibility on others also, let not man put asunder (divorce),
let none deal treacherously (divorce) against his wife, let
not the husband put away (divorce) his wife.
If I command, ";Do not close the door", and you find the door closed,
what then? You say I didn't close it so it's not my responsibly to see that it
gets opened. But if I say, "Let not the door be closed", that implies
you and everyone that heard the command, not only to not close the door, but
also to open it if it is closed. We need to be active watchmen. Not allowing
men to think they can take apart what God says is not allowed.
Please read Ezekiel 3: 17-21: When a righteous man turns from his
righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay stumbling block before him, he
shall die: because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his
sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his
blood will I require at your hand.
And from the 33rd chapter of Ezekiel. we read: If the wicked restore what he
had robbed and walk In the statutes of life he shall surely live. Say unto
them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the
wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: We are our brother's keeper, and
are instructed to be
Praying always in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication for all saints Ephesians 6: 18.
{Mercy} is the grace of God freely given
to all who turn from wickedness, ask for forgiveness, and live righteously. Isa.27: 11 says: ...for It is a
people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on
them. And Isaiah 55:6-8: Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him
while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man
his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy
upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways says the Lord.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy Hos.10:12. By faith Able
offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain (to obey God he had to
kill a lamb) Hebrews ll:4.
Eli did not do the right thing in 1Samuel 2:12-29 only speaking to his sons
Hophni and Phinehas about their evil acts, but allowing them to continue being
priest. God said. ?Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at my offering, which
I have commanded in my habitation; and honor your sons above me.?
4. TWO BECOME ONE FLESH
Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his
wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19: 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and
shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh.
Mark.10: 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more
twain, but one flesh.
**A Reason WHY GOD MAKES TWO BECOME ONE Malachi 2: l5 And
did not he make [you and your wife] one? And wherefore one? That he
might seek a godly seed.
Psalms 127:3 Lo, children are an inheritance of the Lord: and the fruit of the
womb is his reward. Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them.
5. Are NEVER MORE TWO, but one.
Matthew 19: 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Genesis 2: 24 and they shall be one flesh.
Mark 10: 8,9 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.
Malachi 2: 14-l6 yet (in spite of your divorce) she is thy companion, and the
wife of your covenant... 15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, said that he hates putting away (divorce)...
DO
NOT ALLOW man to put apart.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder(divorce), Matthew 19:6, Mark 10:9,
let none deal treacherously (divorce) against his
wife,
let not the wife depart from her husband... let not the husband put away (divorce) his wife...1Corinthians 7:10, 11
HOW Can we stop Allowing or let not people to Divorce and Remarry?
1 By being informed about what Marriage really is.
2 By speaking the truth in love because
we care about them more than what they might think of us.
3 By not calling people who are in adultery “Husband and Wife” or “Mr. and Mrs.”
4 and By holding people accountable to their word vowed in their first marriage and to God's word.
We know what Moses said and what Paul said, but we do
not accept their words as superior or contradictory to what Jesus said.
6. JESUS'
teaching on Marriage (disciples are
shocked) PLEASE NOTE that Jesus is talking about people who think they
are married. Where OTHERS say "it's ok to divorce and marry
another" BUT JESUS says whoever does so is in adultery.
In Matthew 5: 31,32 Jesus states" It hath been said, Whosoever shall put
away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you,
That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication,
causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced
commits adultery. And in Matthew 19:8 Jesus says "Moses suffered
you because of your hardness of heart" But JESUS says that to marry a
divorced person is to commit adultery.
---- HELLO!! DO YOU Know that HARDNESS of heart is unrepentant
disobeying and unforgiven sin? ---
Matthew 19:3-10 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto
him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he
answered and said unto them. Have ye not read, that he which made them at the
beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave
father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one
flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath
joined together, let not man put asunder.They say unto him, Why did Moses then
command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He said unto
them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts (destitution of spiritual
perception S.#4641) suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning
it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it
be for fornication (harlotry), and shall marry another, commits adultery: and
whoso marries her which is put away doth commit adultery. His disciples
say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to
marry.
Mark 10:2-12 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a
man to put away his wife? tempting him. And he answered and said unto them,
What did Moses command you?
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
(stupidity or callousness: -blindness S.#4457) 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. And in the house
his disciples asked him again of the same matter. And he 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.
Luke 16:18 JESUS Says "Whosoever puts away his wife, and marries
another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marries her that is put away from
her husband committeth adultery".
What Moses Said
What the Pharisees are
referring to in Matthew and Mark is Deuteronomy 24:1-4 When a man hath taken a
wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes,
because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of
divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2And
when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorcement, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house;
or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; 4Her
former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife,
after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy
God gives thee for an inheritance.
All the rest of scripture teaches that marriage is until death
and to marry a divorced woman is adultery, so to interpret this passage as God
saying it’s ok to marry a divorced woman, makes God to be saying two opposite
things. This makes God out to be a liar. We know God cannot lie and will not go
against his word. Therefore it makes much more sense to read this passage with
the understanding that it is talking about the first husband as only engaged or
betrothed and not married until death. Just like Joseph was going to divorce
Mary even though he was not married to her yet in Matthew 1:18 – 23. Moses also
said in Deuteronomy 22:13 this example of marriage till death, where a husband
claims his wife was not a virgin. If he is lying he pays a fine. But if she was
not a virgin she gets killed not divorced. And in verse 28 we find an example
of marriage till death, where a man rapes a virgin, which is not betrothed. Here
there is no betrothal period and no divorce allowed.
We are also
not told what defiled the woman in Deuteronomy 24:4. It could be the publicly
declared uncleanness that this man claimed in order to say she was not fit to
have as a wife. So in making this “Godly” claim he put this “unclean” woman
away. In acting on this “Godly” claim and receiving the benefits of it, to
later say it is now Godly to do the exact opposite and take her as a clean
wife, makes God out to be a liar.
7. MARRIAGE IS FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE NO (living) HUSBAND Mt.5:32 whoever marries a
divorced woman is committing adultery Mark 10:11,12 When a woman puts away her
husband and marries another, she commits adultery Lu.16:18 whoever marries a
woman put away commits adultery Romans 7:2,3 husband lives - wife marries
another - is adultery 1Corinthians 7:28,39 ...and if a virgin marry she hath
not sinned. (39) The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but
if husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in
the Lord. Deuteronomy 22 :28,29 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which
is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty
shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he
may not put her away all his days.
Herodias, Philip's wife is an example of
one man having another man's wife. John the Baptist lost his head over speaking
out about this immoral marriage. Some believe God only accepts marriages of
Christians. Are these three believers? I think not. Did John lose his head
because he didn't know what he was talking about? NO! Some say this marriage
was wrong because it was Herod's brother's wife (incest?). The same chapter in
Leviticus that says it's wrong to have your brother's wife also says it's wrong
to have another's wife (Leviticus18:16-20). Mark.6:17 says For Herod himself
had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias'
sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her. For John
had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
Rahab the harlot was of the line of Christ. She was forgiven of her past
sins and was blessed for turning to God. In the following references (Matthew
1:5) (Ruth.4:18-22) (Joshua 6:17,23,25) (Hebrews ll:31) we see Rahab as one of
the faithful.
Because Joshua saved Her father's household I believe that she was still under
her father [not married].
Joshua 6: 25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's
household, and all that she had; and she dwells in Israel even unto this day;
because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Hebrews 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed
not, when she had received the spies with peace.
Bathsheba wife of Uriah, in line of CHRIST. (Matthew 1: 6) And David the
king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias.
This is an example of adultery that David tried to cover up by murder (death of
husband). So that marriage ended because her husband was dead and another
started after his death. David had to repent and God forgave him, but he was
told, "the sword shall never depart from your house." David suffered
much because of this sin Please read (2Samuel 11- 2Samuel 12: 24).
Michal was taken from David and remarried, then later returned. This is
an example of a woman in another "marriage" being returned to her
right husband. 1Samuel 18:27, 25:44 2Samuel 3:13-16.
Gomer a wife of whoredoms but still a wife. (Hosea 1:2)
8. GOD's PICTURE of adultery and divorce in marriage is revealed in the
old testament.
GOD used what was true about marriage to tell about his relationship with his
people.
Jeremiah 3: 1,6-8,12-15 They Say, If a man put away his wife, and she
go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again?
Shall not that land be greatly polluted? (Return? Others say NO, But God
Says YES. )
The Lord Says, but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet
return again to me. (6) The Lord said also unto me in the days of
Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She is
gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has
played the harlot.
And I Said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she
returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all
the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her
away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah
feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
(12) Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return,
thou backsliding Israel, says the Lord; and I will not cause my anger to
fall upon you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not
keep anger forever. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have
transgressed against the Lord thy God, and have scattered thy ways to the
strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the
Lord.
Turn, O backsliding children,
says the Lord; for I am married (is husband of [Strong's #
o.t.1166]) unto you: and I will take you one from the city, and
two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: And I will give you pastors
according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
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How can He still be married after putting away and giving a bill of divorcement?
He is married because divorce does NOT dissolve the marriage. Let none deal
treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Yet (in spite of the fact that you divorced) is she your companion,
and the wife of your covenant. Malachi 2: 14-16
(marriage is not dissolved by
divorce).
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Its no wonder people do not know what to believe with
the way the new translations change the context of scripture an in this chapter
of Jeremiah 3
Although Most of the new translations do not go so
far as to put “The Lord says” at the first of verse one, they infer that
it is the Lord commanding, because of “the Lord says” at the end of the verse.
By removing “They say” from the first of the verse that would let
someone know that part of what is said here is by someone other than God.
Also the new
translations add “you want to” to “return to me” in verse one.
Then in verse 7 they change the word “I said” to “I thought” and added “she will” to “return to
me”. But God repeats the command to RETURN 3 more times in verses 12, 14,
& 20-22.
What is the problem? Can’t God make up his mind?
Then one more thing here the new translations change “married” meaning (husband), and meaning something more in line with marriage that this passage is talking about But, They change it to “master” A word having a much wider meaning and less to do with marriage. And even though he divorced Israel in verse 8 (Even in all the new translations) Then in verse 14 he says he is husband to Israel but you can’t see that with the new translations changing “married” to “master”
Jeremiah 3 The Lord
says, “If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another
man’s wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the
land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to
me! (Good News Bible)
7 And
I thought, after she has done all this she will return to me. But
she did not return.
12 Go,
proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, rebel
Israel, says the LORD,
14 Return, rebellious children, says
the LORD, for I am your Master;
20 But
like a woman faithless to her lover, even so have you been faithless to me,
O house of Israel, says the LORD.
21 A
cry is heard on the heights! the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children,
Because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD, their
God.
22
Return, rebellious children, and I
will cure you of your rebelling. Jeremiah 3 (New American
Bible)
9 GOD's PICTURE OF MARRIAGE is revealed in the New Testament
Ephesians 5:
6,8,17,21-29,33 Let no man deceive you with Vain words: for because of
these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. (8) For
you were sometimes darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as
children of light (17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the
will of the Lord is (21) Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
(23) For the husband is the head of the Wife, even as Christ is the head of the
church: and he is the savior of the body. (24) Therefore as the church is
subject unto Christ, so let the wife be to her own husband in every
thing.
(25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave
himself for it (He died for an imperfect and sinful church so he might wash it
and make it perfect); that he might sanctify and cleanse it (her) with the
washing of water by the word, that he might present it (her) to himself a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as
their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. (29) For no man ever
hated his own flesh; But nourishes and cherishes his own flesh, even as the
Lord the church: (33) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love
his wife even as he loves himself; and the Wife see that she reverence her
husband.
1Peter 3: 1-7 Let each wife be subject to her own husband...with a meek and
quiet spirit. Husbands...give honor unto your wife. . . that your prayers be
not hindered.
{Not same for
man as for the woman}
the husband is the head. The wife is to be subject to and reverence her
husband. The husband is to love and honor his wife. (Ephesians 5) the
husband who puts away his wife, and marries another, committeth
adultery (Luke 16:18) The wife is bound by the law as long as her
husband lives; but if husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom
she will (1Corinthians 7:31) the husband that puts away his wife... causeth her
to commit adultery (Matthew 5:32)
10 word study (Put Away: to Free fully, Relieve, Release, Set
at liberty ? Strong's # n.t. 630) In the phrase, "Who ever shall put away
Wife/husband"...? a person would think, that this would mean that the
marriage has been dissolved, but Jesus says, whoever marries such a one commits
adultery. Matthew 5: 32 Matthew 19: 3,7,8,9,& Mark 10: 2,4,11,12. &
Luke 16: 18.
WORD STUDY (Commits Adultery) Who ever shall put away, AND be married to
another commits adultery. (Strong's #s 3428, 3429, 3430, and 3431 commits
adultery come from #3432), (Strong's # n.t. 3432 paramour [male whore] -
adulterer)(Strong's # o.t. 5003 - adulterer [-ess] commit [-ting] adultery).
Places where the phrase commits adultery is used: Mark 10: 11,12,19, Luke 16:
18,20 Romans 7: 2,3 Rom.13: 9 Leviticus 18: 20; Lev.20: 10; Proverbs 6: 32;
Ezekiel 16: 32.
Marriage is HOLY. Adultery is SIN.
That which is SIN
can NOT become that which is HOLY. Woe to them that call Evil good, and GOOD
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness Isaiah 5:20. In the
passage Romans.6:16 it says, Don't you know that you are the servant to whom
you obey? Serve sin for death or obey for life.
11 HOW DO WE APPLY THESE TRUTHS?
WHO NOT TO
MARRY (Leviticus
18: 1-23) (:6) not near kin (:7) not parents (:9) not sister (: 10) not niece
(: 12) not aunt (:15) not son's wife (:16) not brother's Wife
(:20) not another's wife (Leviticus.20:10) (1Corinthians 7: 11.
Romans 7: 1-3.) (: 22) not man with man (Leviticus.20: 13) (: 23) not to lie
with any beast
ONLY
FOR BELIEVERS?
NO!. GOD's law applies to everyone. Sin is why anyone will go to hell (the soul
that sins). Were Herod and Herodias believers? NO! Matthew and Mark write of
Herodias as Philip's wife (Matthew 14:3, MK 6:1), and John is applying this law
to unbelievers. How about Nineveh and Sodom? These were cities of unbelievers,
but God's law still applies (Luke 11: 31-32 & Jonah 1-4). GOD forbids that
we continue in sin! Jesus said, one that does not know and does things worthy
of stripes will still be punished. Luke 12: 48.
NOT UNDER
BONDAGE? Under
bondage is to enslave; become [make] servant (Strong's #1402), (See the service
(bondage) in 1Corinthians.7: 3) render due benevolence, (7:4) has not power
over own body, (7:5) withhold not from one the other, (7:33-35) need to please
wife or husband. This is the service (bondage) that no longer is
necessary if unbeliever leaves. BUT The marriage is till death, living together
or apart.
IF ONE COMMITS ADULTERY does that free the other of marriage? NO. Marriage is till death
and that is why it is committing adultery for a woman to marry another if her
husband is still alive. A husband is to die to self, for his wife's sake. This
is not only if she is perfect, but so he can help her to be perfect. So he
might present her glorious and perfect to himself and also to God. And then we
are given an example real close to heart of how we are to love our wife. Like
we love our own self. Replace "I'm" with "Is she"
(I'm cold, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, Is she in pain, does her heart ache, are
her feelings hurt, Is she lonely,...) see bible pictures of marriage (Ephesians
5:23-29) (Jeremiah 3: 1-15) Do we love our wife as we love our self??? Do we
love as CHRIST loved the Church?
WHEREIN YOU ARE
CALLED therein
be content. This only means lawful states, (uncircumcised/ circumcised
[1Corinthians 7: 17-19], servant/ free [7: 20-22], lawful marriage/ single [7:
24,27], soldier [Lu.3: 14], tax collector [3: 12,13]. We are to STOP being
whores, paramours, adulters, thieves, extortionists, drunkards,..
(1Corinthians 6: 9,10). It's not who you are but how you do it. In all things
we are to repent (STOP) from what we know to be sin (Luke 3: 3,8).
Marriage is until death. SO having the wife of someone who is not dead a
countining sin of adultery.
And such were some of you But you are washed.
ALL THINGS ARE NEW
We now, with the help of the Holy Spirit, should desire
those things that are good and holy. And now we should hate those things that
are wicked and sinful. Wickedness never turns into holiness. If before I was
born again, I robbed a bank, or kidnapped a child, or took someone's land by
fraud, or married a woman whose husband was not dead, do I keep these things
now? No! Sin is sin and must be set right. Return things back to the rightful
owners. "All things are new" does NOT mean that which was adultery
(sin) is now become that which is holy (marriage). BE ye reconciled, walk no
longer in sin, live no longer for self, but unto CHRIST who died for you.
2Corinthians.5: 15,17,20 And that he died for all, that they which live should
not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose
again.
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (20) Now then we are
ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in
Christ's stead, be reconciled to God.
(1Corinthians 7: 3-5, 8-11, 17-24, 27, 28, 33-35, 39) Let the husband render unto the
wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife
hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband
hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other,
except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting
and prayer; and come together again that Satan tempt you not for your
incontinency. (8) I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for
them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for
it is better to marry than to burn. 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. (17) But as God hath distributed to every man, as
the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk, and so ordain I in all
churches. Is any man called circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Is
any called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is
nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of
God. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou
called being a servant? Care not for it: but if thou may be made free, use it
rather. For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's
freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. (24)
Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. (27) Art
thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife?
Seek not a wife. (28) But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a
virgin marry she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the
flesh: but I spare you. (33) But he that is married cares for the things that
are of the world, how he may please his wife. (34) There is a difference also
between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the
Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares
for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. (35) And this I
speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that,
which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. (39)
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband
be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
VOWS It is by our words that we express our thoughts and intents, and
pledge ourselves to one another before God. When God talks of marriage he's not
talking about a temporary bedroom agreement. When God makes two one-flesh it is
until death, Vow or no vow, if it is a marriage in God's sight, it is
till death. The reason for a vow is to state your intentions more strongly,
binding yourself more firmly.
Numbers 30:2 If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his
soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all
that proceeded out of his mouth.
(Vows are different for daughters, wives, widows, and divorced women. See
Numbers 30:3-16) ...and her father/husband hold his peace at her then all her
vows shall stand... Have you ever thought about why the bride is given away by
her father?
Deuteronomy 23: 21-23. When you vow a vow unto the Lord your God, you shall not
slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it
would be sin in thee. But if you do not vow, it shall be no sin in thee. That
which is gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill
offering, according as you have vowed unto the Lord your God, which you have
promised with thy mouth
Ecclesiastes
5: 4-6 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no
pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that you not
vow, than that you should vow and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy
flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error:
wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
THIS IS A
CONSIDERATION about vows. Matthew
5:34 But I (Jesus) say unto you, swear not at all, but let your communication
be yes, yes: or no, no: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
MARRIAGE IS a lifetime commitment between a
man and a woman (with no living husband) to be husband and wife.
Divorce does NOT dissolve a Marriage
Marriage is not adultery.
Adultery is not marriage.
This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.
No one is worth going to hell for.
Hosea 4: 6 My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will
also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have
forgotten the law of God. I will also forget your children.
Yes, GOD does forgive All sin for
which we STOP the sin and ask forgiveness for.
Yes, GOD does forgive adultery if we
stop the adultery and ask for forgiveness. God in his mercy gives us His words
of life and light that we might live and not die. He calls us to be his
peculiar (treasured) people.
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BIBLICAL
CONCEPTS OF MARRIAGE |
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MARRIAGE IS HOLY (What GOD does is HOLY) |
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MARRIAGE IS ONLY FOR THIS EARTHLY LIFE (not in heaven) |
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MARRIAGE IS LIFE LONG (That is as long as both live) |
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What
these BIBLICAL terms mean? {Marriage}
{One Flesh} {Adultery} {Fornication} {Hardness Of Heart} {Let Not \ Let None} |
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4. TWO
BECOME ONE FLESH |
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NEVER MORE TWO, but one. DO NOT ALLOW man to put apart. |
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JESUS' teaching on Marriage (disciples are shocked) |
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What Moses Said |
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MARRIAGE IS FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE NO (living) HUSBAND Herodias,
Rahab Bathsheba Michal |
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GOD's PICTURE of adultery and divorce in marriage is revealed in the
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How can He
still be married after putting away and giving a bill of
divorcement?
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GOD's PICTURE OF MARRIAGE is revealed in the New Testament {Not same
for man as for the woman} |
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Marriage
is HOLY. Adultery is SIN. |
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word study (Put Away:) (Commits Adultery) |
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ONLY FOR BELIEVERS? |
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NOT UNDER BONDAGE? |
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IF ONE COMMITS ADULTERY |
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ALL THINGS ARE NEW |
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VOWS |
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MARRIAGE IS |
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