Read this with you heart open and get your intuitive senses tuned into the Word of God as it pertains to your earthly existence - Once you come to understand that time is only the moment in which you live - all the other things will begin to appear much like it can be in the Eternity which follows... Get ready!
Can you understand your life's purpose - which should be to seek the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all other things will be added unto you!.
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8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,[a] and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
Can you understand your life's purpose - which should be to seek the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all other things will be added unto you!.
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Matthew 19:9 "And I say unto you, Whosoever shall
put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry
another, commits adultery: and whoso marries her which is put away
doth commit adultery."
Matthew 19:7-9New King James Version (NKJV)
7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,[a] and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
Footnotes:
- (a) Matthew 19:9 Or fornication
Although adultery denotes one who has
unlawful intercourse with the spouse of another, in its much broader
term, it means to violate or pollute.
Israel violated or polluted their covenant with God.
Jeremiah says, "She (Judah) defiled the land, and committed adultery" (Jer. 3:9).
Adultery in relation to marriage also reflects a violation of the covenant of companionship. Sex outside of marriage is adultery because it violates or pollutes the covenant of marriage by introducing another party and bringing that relationship into the marriage.
"They two shall be one flesh" (Eph. 5:31).
Divorce also adulterates or pollutes marriage because it disrupts or denies the divorced parties the right to be faithful to their covenant of companionship.
Any time one divorces their mate (except for fornication) and marries another, they are guilty of adultery. They have polluted and destroyed a relationship intended by God to be permanent and pure.
Why the "except for fornication" clause?
Jesus is not saying that if fornication is involved, we must divorce, but rather, when fornication is involved, that is the only time when the person getting the divorce is not guilty of adultery.
That is because the partner who had an extra-marital relationship has already polluted the marriage vow.
In God's original design for marriage He intended marriage to be sacred, precious, pure, and permanent.
The marriage covenant represents a final, irrevocable commitment
where the man and the woman renounce the right to live for themselves and become -
"heirs together of the grace of life" (1 Pet. 3:7).
Israel violated or polluted their covenant with God.
Jeremiah says, "She (Judah) defiled the land, and committed adultery" (Jer. 3:9).
Adultery in relation to marriage also reflects a violation of the covenant of companionship. Sex outside of marriage is adultery because it violates or pollutes the covenant of marriage by introducing another party and bringing that relationship into the marriage.
"They two shall be one flesh" (Eph. 5:31).
Divorce also adulterates or pollutes marriage because it disrupts or denies the divorced parties the right to be faithful to their covenant of companionship.
Any time one divorces their mate (except for fornication) and marries another, they are guilty of adultery. They have polluted and destroyed a relationship intended by God to be permanent and pure.
Why the "except for fornication" clause?
Jesus is not saying that if fornication is involved, we must divorce, but rather, when fornication is involved, that is the only time when the person getting the divorce is not guilty of adultery.
That is because the partner who had an extra-marital relationship has already polluted the marriage vow.
In God's original design for marriage He intended marriage to be sacred, precious, pure, and permanent.
The marriage covenant represents a final, irrevocable commitment
where the man and the woman renounce the right to live for themselves and become -
"heirs together of the grace of life" (1 Pet. 3:7).
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