Divorce and Remarriage: EVERYTHING the Bible Says about It.

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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VIDEO MAP/TIME STAMPS 0:00 Intro to topic #1 10:07 What you need to know about the Jewish backdrop of Jesus’ teaching on divorce. #2 25:53 Why you should be open to exceptions to Jesus’ rule about not divorcing. #3 37:15 What all four Gospels have in common on this topic. #4 39:00 Jesus’ teaching on divorce in Mark 10. #5 46:54 Jesus’ teaching on divorce in Luke 16. #6 48:42 Jesus’ teaching on divorce in Matthew 5. #7 50:16 I’ve been taught that marriage is literally unbreakable; that it is ontologically impossible to end unless your spouse dies. What about that? #8 54:26 What did Jesus mean by “sexual immorality”. #9 1:11:00 Jesus’ teaching on divorce in Matthew 19. #10 1:21:22 Jesus’ teaching on divorce in Romans 7. #11 1:28:17 Paul’s teaching in 1 Corinthians 7 vs. 10-16. #12 1:37:54 Does “not enslaved” allow remarriage after divorce in 1 Corinthians 7 vs. 15? #13 1:51:19 When can a Christian spouse be treated like a non-Christian? #14 2:00:49 What about abuse or extreme situations? #15 2:08:25 If you divorce for abuse or extreme situations can you get remarried? #16 2:10:51 Paul’s teaching in 1 Corinthians 7 vs. 17-40. #17 2:19:05 Who are we to disagree with the church fathers? #18 2:31:46 God said, “I hate divorce”, doesn’t that mean you can’t get divorced? #19 2:33:53 What about those who will abuse the exceptions and wrongly divorce? #20 2:36:28 What about alcoholism, gambling, drug use, etc.? #21 2:37:29 What about a marriage that was entered sinfully? Should it be broken up? #22 2:44:05 What about David Instone-Brewer? #23 2:57:06 Should a pastor marry someone who is wrongly divorced? #24 2:58:53 Summary of all 16 biblical principles. #25 3:02:45 What are bad reasons for getting a divorce? #26 3:03:16 Final thoughts. RESOURCE LIST My teaching for husbands. https://youtu.be/65eMggo_xKQ My teaching for wives. https://youtu.be/H8PFVZgIQ2w Know that I don’t endorse these different works. They are resources showing a wide variety of interpretations from the most strict to relatively lenient. If you want to go deep on this topic then I recommend reading several authors, especially those you disagree with. ARTICLES: John Piper, “Divorce and Remarriage: A Position Paper” https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/divorce-and-remarriage-a-position-paper Raymond Westbrook, “The Prohibition on Restoration of Marriage in Deuteronomy 24:1-4” https://www.wisereaction.org/ebooks/westbrook.pdf this is where he gives his case for the first marriage involving a man keeping the ketubah and the second marriage involving the woman getting it. Wayne Grudem, “Grounds for Divorce: Why I Believe There Are More Than Two” (the infamous paper delivered at last year’s ETS) http://www.waynegrudem.com/grounds-for-divorce-why-i-now-believe-there-are-more-than-two/ David Instone-Brewer’s article on ancient marriage and divorce papyri. http://www.tyndalearchive.com/Brewer/MarriagePapyri/1Cor_7a.htm The Damascus Document https://www.academia.edu/28913750/The_Damascus_Document_CD_2005_ Carol Osburn article refuting David Pawson’s view that the Greek shows second marriages are continual adultery. “The Present Indicative in Matthew 19:9” https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=restorationquarterly BOOKS: David Pawson - “Remarriage is Adultery Unless…” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00564TNV2/ Gordon Wenham, “Jesus, Divorce, and Remarriage: In Their Historical Setting” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083ZN5ZQ3/ Wenham, Heth & Keener, “Remarriage after Divorce in Today’s Church: 3 Views” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0050O6P1O/ David Instone-Brewer, “Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001Q3L4VY/ See reviews of Instone-Brewer’s work here (Gagnon’s negative review and I-B’s response are particularly interesting) https://www.divorce-remarriage.com/ Craig Keener, “…And Marries Another: Divorce and Remarriage in the Teach

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0:00.0	This is my full and exhaustive teaching on marriage, divorce, and remarriage according to the Bible.
0:06.1	It's going to cover all of the relevant biblical passages. We're going to get into a lot of historical insights,
0:11.2	original language issues, and even scholarly debates on this topic of divorce and remarriage in particular.
0:17.0	I'm going to try to also answer a real question, hard questions, about how to apply these things into your life faithfully as a Christian.
0:23.6	We're going to go very deep in this video, which is why there's a video map
0:27.6	down below in case you want to skip around to specific sections that you're
0:31.0	interested in. I'll tell you more about that in a minute.
0:33.0	So this is a topic that I've actually been confused on for years.
0:36.0	When people have asked me as a pastor about the topic of divorce and remarriage,
0:40.0	I sometimes have said, boy, that situation is confusing to to me I don't know the right answer
0:44.0	you know go to the scripture and study it and seek to honor Christ as best you can
0:48.3	well as you can imagine I'm not happy giving that answer and so what I thought was in my verse study going
0:54.2	through the gospel of Mark when I hit Mark 10 I would stop that study and do a whole
0:58.2	research project on the topic of marriage and divorce that's what I've done I've put
1:02.0	over 200 hours I don't know exactly how many,
1:03.8	but it's definitely hundreds of hours of work into studying all the relevant stuff I can find,
1:09.0	a number of different books, scholars, all kinds of stuff on this topic hearing different from from sort of
1:14.8	popular pastors and they're teaching on it versus more like the scholastic type
1:18.6	stuff from people no one's ever heard of so I've tried to get into all that
1:21.7	because I have a lot of trepidation. I feel like this issue has a huge impact in your life and
1:28.2	this is a really important issue, marriage and divorce. It's so radically important that we get this right and I didn't know the right
1:35.6	advice to give in many cases. So now I feel like I do. I feel like a lot better and I don't
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