I Am Divorced Can I Re-Marry? E-Book

Godspower Elishason

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• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The issue of Divorce and Re-Marriage is so difficult, nuanced, and emotional. There are a couple challenges that make teaching on Divorce and Re-Marriage especially difficult. One challenge is that there are so many legitimate approaches I could take with this teaching.

Through this book we shall discover the mind of God concerning situations that made the New Testament to permit divorce. We shall also address the question of whether are divorced Christians who have remarried "living in adultery"? Most church dogmas often targets the wounded, rejecting the very ones who need Christ's healing touch, thereby further complicating the pain and rejection of these wounded ones. Though we are not trying to encourage frivolous marriage dissolution, but instead this book deals with the issues of divorce and remarriage from a biblical perspective--looking below the surface of what some have SAID the Bible teaches--to understand the obvious intent of Scriptural passages which deal with these issues.

So join me on this journey that will guarantee you inner healing. We tried to look at this issue from different dispensational views to understand what the Bible really.

Leseprobe

Godspower Elishason

I Am Divorced Can I Re-Marry?

An Exposition On Divorce & Re-Marriage

Dedicated To My Sister From Another Mother Who Encouraged Me To Teach This To My Facebook, WhatsApp & BBM Communities. She is a True Apostle. Apostle Dr. Leina’ala Mars North Carolina - USA BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Copyright

Unless otherwise indicated all scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible

I Am Divorced Can I Re-Marry?

ISBN 978-33479-4-2

Copyright © 2014 by Dr. God’spower O. Elishason

First Edition, 2014

First eBook Edition, 2014

First Kindle Edition, 2014

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The Commission

“Son, I have not called you to build a church (denomination),But to build churches. The ministry I gave to you is not for a group of people, but for the entire body of Christ… I have sent you forth to set free the captives through prayers and the teaching of My Word”…  “Son the time has come to rise up and do what I sent you, see my church has forsaken me the fountain of LIVINGWATERS… go wake up My Church in your generation, my word of power is in your mouth, saith the Lord”

Preface

“Since divorce is only a concession to man’s sin

And is not part of God’s original plan for marriage,

All believers should hate divorce as God does.”

The issue of Divorce and Re-Marriage is so difficult, nuanced, and emotional. There are a couple challenges that make teaching on Divorce and Re-Marriage especially difficult.  One challenge is that there are so many legitimate approaches I could take with this teaching.

I could make the teaching a warning: “Marriage is sacred. Remember your vows. Jesus never encouraged divorce. So don’t do it.” I could legitimately teach this way because the weight of the New Testament falls on the side of warning against divorce. But I could also use the teaching to talk about God’s compassion for those who have been hurt in marriage, or those left behind in marriage, or those sinned against in marriage. I could also take more of a theological approach and try to explain the acceptable grounds for divorce and remarriage, asking questions like: Are there any justifiable reasons for divorce? If so, what are they? And if you may get divorced under certain circumstances, what about remarriage?

The other challenge in teaching this topic is that there are so many unique scenarios that don’t lend themselves to easy answers. Many of you will read this book not simply for theological information, but you’ll be reading to see if I think God thinks your divorce was acceptable, or whether your parents’ remarriage was appropriate, or whether you are free to remarry now that you are divorced. There are so many intricate, specific situations that I can’t possibly write about them. These situations require tremendous wisdom because it’s not always clear what is the correct counsel.

There are as many scenarios as there are couples in the world. How do we know what’s right in each situation, especially when so many of the scenarios have no parallel in Scripture? The simple thing is to turn a blind eye to divorce in the church. Just pretend it doesn’t happen. Don’t ask people about it. Don’t bring it up. Don’t say anything during a membership interview. That has been the stance many pastors have towards the issue over the years. But when my beloved sister, Apostle Leina’ala Mars asked me to do a teaching on it, I was scared not to hurt the feelings of some people but I decided to go ahead with this teaching dealing with it scripturally, dispensational and spiritually. The hard thing is to take a few biblical principles about marriage, divorce, and remarriage and then try to apply them prayerfully and wisely to a thousand different situations.

Divorce & Remarriage An Introduction

Starting out on this crucial issue, it is wise that we put aside all that we thought we knew regarding DIVORCE & RE-MARRIAGE and let’s see it purely from BIBLICAL point of view. We are going to put line upon line and precept upon precept. Let’s try to first lay a foundation on the matter before we make a conclusion. One point I must emphasize here is that, no true child of God loves divorce; we are under pressure because the devil’s greatest enemy is the family and the Church so he continuously fight against them.

This issue has gone through a lot of debate over the years in the history of the Church, so we are going to try to properly interpret the teachings of Jesus and Paul using the rules of Bible Interpretation. Am addressing this issue because of the increasing rate of divorce in the Church and the understanding we have as a Church on the issue has place many under unnecessary bondage. The aftermath of divorce do not only affects the couples involved but also the children because I grew up in a broken home. From God’s word we can see also that God hates divorce.

Mal 2:14-16

14. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

15. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.