This sermon completely changed my presuppositions that I had about divorce and remarriage. Please take a listen:
(Scroll down to the Sermon Audio box and click on the sermon "The Permanence View of Marriage")
The Permanence View of Marriage
J.C. Ryle
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Voddie Baucham on Divorce/Remarriage
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Oh yes! It did for me too... this was an awesome sermon! Everyone, saved or not needs to hear this sermon.
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I agree--Marriage is for Life!
Apostle Paul received his Gospel directly from the Lord Jesus, consequently he was in full agreement with Jesus that there was no legitimacy in any ‘no fault divorce’ and that even when the civil courts granted the divorce, the divorce did not dissolve the marriage.
Such is the irreversible union of the ‘one-flesh’ in the eyes of God. Divorce ends nothing. Pushing a piece of paper across a courtroom table changes nothing about that relationship in the eyes of God. As far as God is concerned they are still ‘one-flesh’ after the paper is pushed across the table.
Man invented ‘no fault divorce’ and it has no reality in God’s world.
Like Jesus, Paul regarded all marriages, Christian and non-Christian, as irreversible. Only the death of one of the partners can separate a married couple.
Remarriage, Jesus pointed out, means adultery, not a legitimate marriage.
If a spouse believes that by getting a divorce they have untied their marriage knot and are now free to remarry, they have mistakenly believed the civil court over Jesus.
For Jesus, divorce is a sham, something men made up. Divorce only opens the door to adultery and not to freedom.
To believe that divorce actually ends a legitimate marriage is to call Jesus a liar. To obtain a divorce and then remarry is to sin against the Lord Jesus Christ.
Securing a divorce is a sinful action and those who obtain them and believe that they have erased their legitimate marriage must understand that the Lord still holds them to their original marriage covenant unto death.
They are not free and they will become adulterers if they remarry. The remarriage enters them into an adulterous relationship. A second marriage is only lawful when the original partner has died. Romans 7:2-3
Pastors who care for the souls of men will speak the TRUTH!
http://www.cadz.net/mdr.html
Jesus Christ Taught the Indissolubility of the Marriage Covenant.
Our civil laws may permit divorce and remarriage, but God's Word condemns it. Marriage was established by God and not by man. In-as-much as marriage was ordained by God, His Word is the final authority in matters concerning it.
God's Word has not left us in the dark concerning marriage and divorce.
Jesus made it clear that divorce does not end the marriage covenant. If remarriage was legitimate, Jesus would have never called remarriage “adultery.”
The marriage covenant cannot be dissolved by civil law. When a man and woman unite in marriage and become ''one flesh,'' no power on earth, but death can dissolve that union.
In the divorce trial of Powers vs. Powers in the state of New York, Judge William J. Gaylord, instructed the jury as follows, he told the jurors;
“If you decide for divorce in this case, remember you may only cut the knot tied about the parties by the state's civil law, you absolutely cannot touch the covenant bond which states that these persons are married “till death do us part.”
I charge you gentlemen, that so far as concerns a covenant bond existing between these two people, we have nothing whatsoever to do with that. If these people are bound by a covenant, you and I are not seeking to sever that obligation.
When we are through with this case that obligation is left untouched.
We do nothing whatsoever to it. They are just as much bound by it after we get through with them, as they were before. We do not sever it, we do not break it, and that is something that it seems to me is very often misunderstood. Civil law cannot end a covenant made before God.”
If people realized the truth of Judge Gaylord's statements we would not be confronted with our divorce problem.
When a person goes to the courthouse and divorces his mate according to the law of the land, he only breaks the civil connection. He doesn’t break, “the one flesh” that was joined by God on his wedding day.
That day a covenant was entered into, through God’s Divine Law and civil law cannot touch that covenant. That covenant is valid unto death.
“A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives.” 1 Corinthians 7:39
As the judge states, a civil court has nothing whatsoever to do with a covenant made before God and a civil court cannot dissolve a covenant that is bound by God.
http://www.cadz.net/mdr.html
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