My Husband Left Me — How Do I Respond?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of great betrayal, how do we respond with love and forgiveness without minimizing the evil of the sin?

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0:00.0	Good Monday morning. And thanks for joining us again. Well, we happened to be in a season
0:08.8	on the podcast looking at some mature issues in those issues are rather bleak, not by design.
0:16.0	It just ended up that way, providentially in the questions we have on the table.
0:20.8	Last Monday, we looked at whether we can be angry at God when life doesn't turn out the way
0:26.0	we hoped it would. That was APJ 1828. Then we looked at how to overcome anger in the home.
0:32.7	That was APJ 1829. And last time on Friday, a wife asked about how to confront some deep
0:39.4	ongoing sin patterns in the life of her husband. That was APJ 1830. And that brings us to today.
0:46.3	A young wife writes in. She was betrayed. And now she endures the lingering pain of a husband
0:52.7	who left her for another woman. Here's what she writes.
0:56.4	Pastor John, hello, and thank you for taking my question. I've been struggling for two years
1:00.0	to find the right biblical approach to this and hope that perhaps you can afford me some clarity.
1:06.2	My husband wants a professing believer in Christ left our three young girls in me for another woman.
1:13.2	He divorced me a little over a year ago. Throughout this journey, I have struggled with an
1:17.6	appropriate God-honoring response to his ongoing sinful and hurtful behaviors toward our daughters
1:23.6	and me. I'm torn between a righteous anger and tough love, as Jesus showed by turning tables
1:30.0	in the temple, and an unconditional grace as in turning the other cheek, loving my enemies,
1:36.6	and first Peter 2, 23. What is the biblical approach to responding to such betrayal and unrepentant sin?
1:46.7	Let's start with some things that Jesus says about forgiveness and about loving our enemies.
1:56.3	Forgiveness in its fullest form involves two parties, one of which has sinned against the other
2:04.6	and is repenting and asking for forgiveness, and the other was sinned against and is graciously
2:13.6	granting the forgiveness being sought through repentance. We see a picture of this in Luke 17,
2:20.9	3, and 4. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against
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