When a woman leaves or flees or a guy because of abuse of themselves or of the children,

to tell them that they are required to stay faithful to that marriage and to not divorce and to stick

with that person, I think it condemns the guiltless. And I think that it's violating the God

desires mercy and not sacrifice principle. What about abuse or extreme situations? First,

let me say this. The answer I'm giving right now does not apply in most situations.

It doesn't apply to most marriages. Please guard your heart. It's easy to fake that you're abused

or to get a victim mentality where you, after you've decided you want to divorce, all of a sudden

you have this radically distorted, you know, retelling of the story. And we don't want to do that,

right? But I can't control that. I also don't want to victimize the abused to avoid people doing

that. So I'm not going to do that. We are called as Christians to turn the other cheek to forgive

70 times seven to to be gracious and loving and kind and to just go the extra mile. But we are not

called to just sit there and stay in a marriage of abuse. My 13th principle and I'm going to tell

you the principle first this time and then I'll give you biblical reasons for it. Radical danger or

harm justifies separation and divorce. Radical danger or harm. It justifies not only separation

but also divorce. Now I'm going to give you a number of examples in the scripture and then show you

how to apply that to divorce examples where any kind of radical harm or danger it justifies generally

speaking breaking rules. So I know that sounds this is this is potentially abused what I'm about to

tell you but I think it's very true. Let's go to Matthew 12 verse three.

Jesus you know what we know the rule of the Old Testament like you maybe you know this right you

you don't eat the show bread the show bread is for the temple and it's for the priests only

that only they can eat it but in Matthew 12 3 Jesus says something where there was an exception

of that rule and he says have you not read when David what David did when he was hungry and those

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