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🗓️ 16 August 2016
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, given your outspoken position on divorce and remarriage, we get a lot of questions in |
0:09.3 | the inbox on this front. |
0:11.1 | Here's one from a podcast listener named Lisa. |
0:14.2 | Dear Pastor John, I read your long article about divorce and remarriage and agreed all |
0:18.6 | along. |
0:19.6 | Near the end, you restated that only God can end a marriage. |
0:24.0 | Yes. |
0:25.0 | Then you went on to say that remaining in a second marriage is right. |
0:29.2 | I noticed that you did not give scripture to back up that point. |
0:33.1 | And that's where I no longer agreed with you. |
0:35.6 | All the other scriptures seem to only prove that marriage is impossible to end. |
0:40.3 | Are there any passages to suggest that a divorce spouse should remain in their second marriage? |
0:46.5 | It's important to point out that this question that's being asked is a question everyone has |
0:56.1 | to face, not just me with my conservative view of divorce and remarriage. |
1:03.2 | It's a question that everyone except those who think that all divorce and remarriage |
1:09.1 | is biblical. |
1:10.8 | If you have any limits at all in your view of divorce and remarriage, you will soon |
1:19.4 | or later meet a couple who has transgressed even your limits and are in a marriage that |
1:28.4 | they should not have entered, that you think they should not have entered, not just me. |
1:34.8 | So this is a question then for almost every Christian. |
1:40.3 | If the marriage that you are in was entered wrongfully, you shouldn't have entered it, should |
1:49.0 | you stay in it? |
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