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The family kingdom is part of God's Kingdom. When you destroy the family
kingdom, you are destroying God's Kingdom. The state cannot tolerate a
Godly family. The state promotes divorce and instability in the family
for the sole purpose of maintaining power over the people.
We
have been flooded with books and pamphlets attempting to justify divorce
and remarriage. They try to say the word "divorce" does not
really mean "divorce." They attempt to undo the simple words
of Christ with sophisticated arguments. These arguments sell books and
tell people what their itching ears want to hear. But the Spirit of
God's Word is not honored by these books.
The
authors of these books are looking for loopholes in the Word of God,
rather than seeking the Father's will. Jesus' words are plain, but even
the apostles had difficulty accepting them. They said, "If such is
the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry"
(Matthew 19:10).
If
we marry, divorce, and remarry, we are no better than the world - even
the state sanctions such behavior. And look at the mess they have
created with staged polygamy. Children do not even have the security of
one father and one mother.
Jesus
expresses the Father's will at Matthew 19:3-12. The permanency of
marriage is confirmed at Matthew 19:12 when Christ speaks of eunuchs. A
eunuch is a castrated male. Once castrated, a eunuch cannot go back.
Once two become one flesh in marriage, they cannot be unmarried except
through death. Marriage is not a civil contract. It is a permanent
covenant.
Jesus
knows this is a hard saying and adds, "all will not be able to
receive it." There are many on the wide way to destruction, but
narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and few
there are who find it (Matthew 7:13-14). Let us seek the narrow gate.
Our
hearts go out to all of you who are no longer in a Godly marriage. We
are praying that no matter how difficult it looks, that your marriage
status be restored to that which God intended from the beginning.
Nothing is impossible with God.
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