Mat 5:31 It hath been said,
Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Mat 5:32 But I say unto you,
That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth
her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced
committeth adultery.
The issue we are deliberating upon in this article is a very
controversial issue. But it is good that we are still talk about it, instead of
sweeping it on under the carpet.
If the Lord did not shy away from it, then it is important
we talk about.
This particular verse we are looking at, is one of the
sermons on the mount. Jesus taught the people and his disciple about the
kingdom of God. He came to correct the wrong the teaching the people have been
taught, One of the wrong teaching is the
issue of divorce. The people of Jesus’ days have been taught they can divorce,
that is why He said
“it hath been said…
The Lord it is now giving them the correct teaching that is
why He says “But I say unto….,
Jesus wants to knock out the errors in the former teaching
of the people and give them the true teaching of the word of God
Mat 5:32 But I say unto you,
That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication,
causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced
committeth adultery.
1. Understand the
condition for divorce.
Jesus says the legal ground for divorce is that is one of
the parties have committed fornication (it is immoral sexual relationship
before marriage) and not if one the party committed adultery (this immoral
sexual relationship after marriage). So from the statement of Jesus, we can
deduce that if one marries a woman or man who has had sexual intimacy before
marriage and if that person who committed that act did not reveal the acts to
the person he/she is getting married to before the marriage, then that partner
finds out, then that person has the volition to divorce that person who
committed the act of fornication
2. Adultery is not a legal ground to divorce
If you read the sayings of the Lord well, Jesus did not say That whosoever shall put his
wife, saving for the cause of ADULTERY.
Also the in the Book of Hosea, we see God talking to the
prophet to take his back his adulterous wife back, Hosea 3:1-3
Hos 3:1 Then said
the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her
friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the
children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Hos 3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for
an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Hos 3:3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me
many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will
I also be for thee.
I believe we should strive with the help of the Holy Spirit,
to keep the sanctity of marriage for the Lord God says He hates Divorce
(Malachi 2:16)
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