I never like do this but it is GOD truth have you ever read where GOD word says who ever marry a devorce women is commiting adultry. does desire of the flesh mean more to us than GOD . we are to blame for what commit we get our selve into. GOD is a GOD of promises have you ever read proverb about the king who went against his promise .can he get away with it. Ezeikle. here thing people like me dont like to accept but is the only truth. you can my a promise and break it but never live. but renew a promise or come back and repent and want forgiveness but never can we break a promise and keep it broken and live with GOD. People say while GOD forgive anything we do right . but here the thing. What is forgiveness. repent (walk away from) want forgiveness (a way to let go. me having to pay you in one way or another, to bring justice to deserve punishment) .HOW can we forever walk away from a promise (unforgiven) and get away with it. I found myself wanting a devorce women trying to ignore what Jesus said about it. But I know where i would end up end. and had to leave and never see her .
Remember that we are new creations in Christ. So, if a divorced man or woman is a Christian, truly sanctified and justified in Christ, we have absolutely no right whatsoever to judge or condemn them about their past, regardless of their reasons for divorce. Divorced people deserve to be accepted and loved as much as virgins do. It isn't our place to condemn them. I know people that have divorced due to abusive and violent marriages and also due to affairs. I also know people that divorced just because one or the other or both gave up on the marriage.
If you truly love a person, even if they are a person who has been married before and has divorced, you wouldn't judge their circumstances and base your choice on the fear of being considered an adulterer. What I consider this portion of Scripture to mean is a warning to taking marriage lightly, which our culture most assuredly does. People can get divorced by going to Office Depot and picking up a packet of divorce papers they fill out themselves at home, take to the court with both signatures, get notarized, file, and there you have it, instant divorce!
The truly important thing to remember is that repentant people, true Christians, are not bound by the law. If there is someone who had to divorce for whatever reason, they are not second-class citizens and if they have the opportunity to marry again, if God is truly first in both people's lives and in the marriage, then all blessings on them and their marriage. It is a very dangerous place to judge others and oftentimes we can get extremely pious when facing something we do not understand. Remember, God looks on the heart. There have been many successful second marriages and God has blessed and anointed these people, using them in powerful ways.
Just some thoughts...I have never been married or divorced, so I am not coming from a defensive view to protect myself.
Below references were taken from:
Divorce & Remarriage
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. (1 Corinthians 7:8-9)
In this passage, Paul addresses believers who are "
unmarried." This would include anyone who is not married, even divorced believers, because this same term is used for a divorced woman in 1 Corinthians 7:11. Therefore, for the unmarried, who lack self-control, Paul tells the church to, "
let them marry."
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you. (1 Corinthians 7:27-28)
Here Paul clearly declares that a man who is divorced from a wife (i.e. loosed), and then remarries, has not sinned. If he has not sinned, then he has not committed adultery. Therefore, for those who come to Christ in a state of having been divorced (loosed), Scripture gives them the freedom to marry.
How can this be? Jesus said, "
Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery" (Luke 16:18). Yet, Paul says, "
let them marry" (1 Corinthians 7:8-9) and "
you have not sinned" (1 Corinthians 7:26-28). It seems Paul is contradicting Christ, but he is not; because,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthian 5:17)
This is true of both males and females (Galatians 3:28). A person who comes to God in truth (Psalm 145:18; Isaiah 55:6-9) has a clean slate with the Lord (Isaiah 1:8; Psalm 51:7; 103:11-13, 17-18). He has died (Galatians 2:20) and his life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). Christ makes him a new creation, and indeed the old things have passed away, and all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). A divorced person who repents and comes to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4) has been given a new start. All things have become new. Therefore, such a man or woman could remarry, in the Lord (1 Corinthians 7:39; 2 Corinthians 6:14), and not be guilty of adultery. The old wicked person has died, and now the person lives anew in Christ (Romans 6:6; Galatians 2:20; 5:24).
