Good morning and welcome in everyone. Today, we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture, but before we do that, I wanted to tell you a little story.
In 1864, before cell phones and digital clocks, a pendulum clock was built by Arther Beverly and can be found on the third floor of the Department of physics at the University of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand. He was an astronomer who made telescope lenses and watches, but this creation would be different then any other clock ever made. The older clocks would eventually stop, but this one has been running each and every day continuously for 156 years without being manually wound. It winds Itself by running off atmospheric pressure and temperature changes. Like a perpetual motion machine, it has kept going, day in and day out, for over a century and a half, never stopping.
This reminds me of the Christian Life.
When a woman is baptized by submersion into the name of Christ; when she partakes of holy Communion in the church; when she joins herself in worship with others who call on the name of the Lord with a pure heart, and then chooses to depart from her husband, divorce him, and marry another, she abides in a perpetual state of sin. It never stops, just like the Beverly clock. This is one of the reasons that the Apostle did not want women to get remarried if they departed from their husband. Murder might be a one time sinful event in a persons life, but divorce and remarriage is one of the most serious sins in scripture because it never stops. Its like murdering your true husband each and every morning.
Unbelievers live by different guidelines, but when you choose to become a Christian, you are in completely different territory than them. Christians are called to depart from iniquity, not to live in iniquity. Just as we make a lifelong commitment to Christ as His followers, marriage is about making a lifelong commitment to your spouse from which there is no turning back.
A person might commit adultery once in their life, but those who divorce their husband and remarry, commit adultery each and every morning when they wake up alongside someone who is not their true husband. She arises each morning in a state of sin. Its the same if you went out and robbed a bank each and every morning when you woke up. Earthly law might call it marriage, but God’s law calls it fornication and adultery. In the old Testament those who lived like this were commanded to be stoned. The reason why is that they didn’t understand the concept of love. Those who profess to be followers of Jesus Christ and commit these acts are far worse people than people in the Old Testament because as professing Christians, they are sinning against the blood of Christ and God’s grace.
In the Christian Life, to divorce and remarry is to abide in a perpetual state of sin, just like the Beverly clock that keeps ticking each day. It’s like a time bomb that eventually will explode with God’s wrath and eternal punishment. Many people arrogantly laugh at the thought of this, but sadly they won’t be laughing later. A person might steal something from someone else and then never do it again. A person might commit fornication a few times and then never do it again. But a professing Christian woman who divorces her husband and remarries another, lies in a bed of perpetual adultery, sinning in the eyes of God with another man day in and day out. Divorce is forbidden by Christ.
A husband may have wronged his wife a few times and sincerely apologized, but when she divorces him and remarries, she sins against him every morning. To condemn her husband over a few isolated events and then commit 10,000 sins by living the rest of her life in adultery with some stranger, only reveals her holier than thou attitude and her own self-righteousness. The sins that she first condemned, she commits herself 1000 fold. This is an example of the purest form of hypocrisy.
The only way for her to avoid eventual punishment for sin is to reconcile wirh her husband, just as the only way to undo the punishment for sin is to reconcile with God, or with a brother. When a Christian woman gets married, she agrees to stay faithfully by her husband’s side for the rest of her life, no matter what situations may happen, good or bad. She is never too depart her husband. This is a command of the Lord and just like any other in scripture, it needs to be obeyed.
Nowadays a wife will leave their husband because they don’t put the toilet seat down. That’s what they have reduced marriage to. If you profess Christianity, it doesn’t matter what kind of person your husband is. Women need to obey and serve him in everything. There’s an old saying, love the one you’re with. You chose to marry them, now live with the decision that you made. You need not fear retribution from him if you simply do what you are told. You need not fear a judge in a courtroom if you obey him. If you do what you are told, good things will happen. Those who resist will certainly face jugement and be punished.
Adultery is to have sexual relationships with somebody who is not there spouse. A woman who professes Christianity who commits these deeds is a fornicator and an adultress. Divorce and remarriage is being trapped in a daily state of sin. When a woman departs her husband she rejects the commands of Christ. Those who don’t obey his commands don’t love Him. Marriage was created by God as a union until death. Both the husband and a wife make mistakes in a marriage, but divorce is a daily mistake each day.
Although a woman departs from her husband in rebellion against Jesus, she has the opportunity to reconcile to her husband before it’s too late, but if she enters into marriage with somebody else, she commits perpetual adultery. When somebody divorces and remarries, each day they wake up in the bedroom to another day of sin. It’s perpetual because it’s never ending. Its a clock of sin that keeps ticking everyday. In a manner of speaking you’ve remarried into sin. The only way out of it would be to renounce what you have done, renounce your divorce in a courtroom and return to the one whom you have left, if they will even have you.
Christian marriage is a commitment for life. If you are a follower of Christ, you need to obey your husband and stay by his side for the rest of your life. You can quit a job, you can walk away from your house, but as a Christian you can never give up on your marriage. Some women will completely reject this, but will be rewarded according to their works.
1 Timothy 5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
They end up being let away by the devil and deceived, just like in the garden of Eden.
2 Timothy 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
Divorce is forbidden as a Christian. Your spouse may leave and divorce you but never do that to them. Staying in your marriage proves your love for Christ. The sin isn’t upon you when they depart, it’s on them. Divorce and remarriage is a perpetual state of sin. It’s the proof of an unfaithful, disloyal heart to Jesus. Although many people try to justify their decision, it wasn’t a decision that was based in Christ, because they usurp Christs commands and put asunder what He brought together.
An unbeliever may have divorced and remarried, but if you profess Christianity, this is forbidden fruit. Each morning when the adulterers wake up, God is watching their continual rebellion. They abide in a perpetual state of sin. You never want to go there women, because God is not mocked and it will be punished. It’s only a clock of sin that keeps on ticking, never stopping, day in and day out….just like…
…The Beverly Clock.
Let’s think about these things for right now. We can be found on your web browser by Google searching, tlkjbc where you can find our diaries distributed through various platforms, such as Amazon, Spotify or Google podcasts. We are not associated, nor affiliated with any other religious groups. You can get our entire podcast feeds directly, along with transcripts at tlkjbc.com or I suppose that you could find us somewhere up here, in the Great Northern Minnesota woods. Peace to you, and Lord willing, we will talk with you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye bye everybody. ❤️
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