Can I Remarry If My Spouse Dies? Should I?
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Another big week ahead of us on the podcast our inbox is a rather full of questions from |
| 0:09.8 | listeners who are asking about remarriage after the death of a spouse here are two of |
| 0:15.2 | those emails. |
| 0:16.2 | Pastor John, my name is Preeti, P-R-E-E-T-Y-Preeti from Indonesia. |
| 0:21.4 | In July of last year I lost my loving husband, he went in for surgery that was not supposed |
| 0:25.3 | to be life-threatening, but he never woke up from the anesthesia. |
| 0:28.8 | I was and remain in shock. |
| 0:31.4 | We have been married for eight years, blessed with two beautiful daughters. |
| 0:34.7 | My husband has been actively serving the Lord since the age of 18 while most of his friends |
| 0:38.8 | are Hindu. |
| 0:40.0 | His life was all about the gospel. |
| 0:42.9 | We started a church and a few gatherings he loved people, dearly compassionate and generous. |
| 0:48.7 | My question to use this are their verses in the Bible that encourage widows to remarry. |
| 0:53.7 | That sounds disturbing to me right now. |
| 0:55.5 | My question is, what's left for me to hold on to in my relationship between my husband |
| 1:00.2 | and me? |
| 1:01.2 | I long to be always called his wife, but is that wrong? |
| 1:05.6 | Each day I wait to be reunited with my husband again. |
| 1:09.8 | Thank you, Pastor John. |
| 1:11.5 | And then the second email comes in from Patricia who asks more directly, Pastor John, does |
| 1:16.6 | the Bible allow remarriage after the death of a spouse? |
| 1:20.8 | What would you say to these ladies, Pastor John? |
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