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FACTS THAT PROVE ADULTERY CANNOT CAUSE DIVORCE (1)

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TOPIC: FACTS THAT PROVE ADULTERY CANNOT CAUSE DIVORCE (1)

TEXT: MATTHEW 19: 4-8  

THURSDAY DECEMBER 7TH

Key verse: Colossians 3:13: "Forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.” 
Note that the clause "except it be for fornication" is not found in the gospel accounts of Mark and Luke and the epistles. The following facts show clearly that this scripture does not refer to adultery or marital unfaithfulness committed by a husband or a wife in a marriage union already contracted. 
1: Jesus said a husband and wife in a proper marital relationship are one flesh and are no more two. This bond is made by God and man has no power to cancel it. No minister, church, or custom has the authority to dissolve the marriage bond between husband and wife in a scriptural marriage union. Divorce pronouncement in a law court by a Judge based on the laws of the country does not dissolve a scriptural marriage union, because the laws of God are higher than the laws of any country. 
2: The grace of God in Christ Jesus gives the believer the power to forgive his fellow men of all sins, including adultery, even as he or she has been forgiven by God: The forgiveness a backslider receives from God restores him to the love and fellowship of God and restores to him his rights and privileges in Christ. Anyone who practices the word of God will forgive the wife or husband of all sins including adultery and restore him or her to marital love, fellowship, rights, and privileges.
3: Jesus showed that adultery is as evil as every other sin in the sight of God, damnable and forgivable. Here we see that if adultery has the power to destroy life or lawfully terminate marriage, then every other sin can do the same because all sins are equally damnable before God. Jesus forgave this woman of her adultery and cleansed her from her sin. Can anyone condemn someone Christ has justified? Can any man or woman call unclean what God has cleansed? Can the husband of this woman reject her in marriage and be doing God a service? (To be continued).

Thought for the day: Anyone who practices the word of God will forgive the spouse of all sins including adultery.

Song for the day: Jesus paid the debt He did not owe, I owe the debt…

Bible reading for the day: Daniel 9-10; 2 John 1
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