Does God's command to us to forgive as Christ forgave us?

Does that command mean that you can never get a divorce because in all reality

you have to forgive even adultery if your spouse commits that?

That's the question I got from Devon Jacob who in my big video on divorce and remarriage asked the following.

He says you mentioned the higher law a few times in this video is not one of the highest laws to forgive.

Doesn't Jesus say to forgive 70 times 7?

Isn't 7 the number for perfection, perfect forgiveness?

If Jesus forgives Israel, see Romans 11,

shouldn't we in our marriages be forgiving all the time?

I guess I'm just confused how the higher law of forgiveness doesn't apply to hard or

exceedingly difficult marriages. This is actually a good question for me to tackle. I had this

question come up a number of times in the comments section. Devon's one example of that.

So the bottom line is that this means you can never get a divorce, even if a justifiable reason for divorce

has happened in that marriage, you still can't get a divorce because you have to forgive that other person.

I think this is based on a fundamental confusion on what it means to forgive as Christ forgave.

So let's look at what the scripture teaches on this topic, Ephesians chapter 4,

verse 32.

Here we read, be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you.

So not just forgiving each other and one another in any way, shape, or form with no qualifications but rather as God in Christ forgave us.

And I think God forgiving us in Christ is the model for how we go about dealing with forgiveness

and restoration.

Let's talk about that.

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