Many of you have gotten married the second time and you're having as much mess in the second time around as you heard the first go around.

Dr Tony Evans talks candidly about marriage in our society.

What you needed was not a new partner, you needed a better covenant.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas,

Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Today, Dr. Evans shed some light on the controversial issue of divorce and remarriage within

the church.

Let's join him now for a look at the limitations

and liberties that regulate Christian relationships.

God made divorce hard and very, very limited because of what marriage is.

He did not want a man to be able to put asunder

what he had joined together. He did not want men to veto divine covenants. So it is a

sin for a judge in the courthouse to grant a divorce that God does not recognize and that the

church cannot recognize. Where do you go for a divorce if you have a legal grounds

for one from a spiritual standpoint.

But you go to court.

We're not talking about downtown, we go to the church court.

The church court renders a decision.

With regard of that and what you bind on Earth,

the Bible says, will be bound in heaven.

In other words, God functions according to the verdict of the church court when the

church court is using his law as the standard by which it puts judgment on the

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