A Startling View of Divorce & Remarriage | Matthew

[@grant2149]

Your view on this topic is 💯 Biblical truth. People love looking for loopholes for divorce and remarriage. Thanks for teaching the thruth on this Topic.

[@nhdaddyman]

Excellent teaching. Thank you for being obedient.

[@truthhurts6145]

The Lord Jesus will be well pleased in you Dr. Richard Caldwell.

[@womanatwellworshiptheFather]

😮thank God a baptist minister is understanding and teaching this Truth.

[@mikeshipley6662]

Agree, that only death ends the obligations of marriage. What I don't hear Dr. Caldwell addressing is what does the church do about those living in adulterous liasons who wish to continue fellowshipping in the church. He says he generally agrees w/ Piper, but Piper advocates polygamy, saying even 15 remarriages are still valid marriages and such people should be allowed to be in the church. Piper tries to avoid saying "polygamy" even as he calls them serial marriages, but polygamy doesn't stop being polygamy simply because you only live with one of your wives at a time.

[@BAM-jc7uy]

Amen. Also, the marriage vows were taken between the man and the woman AND WITH the Lord Himself. How would/could anyone professing to be born again break a vow taken with the Lord for any reason, and yet it's done with the marriage vow, and there are many, many churches remarrying professing born again members with new spouses???? The Lord becomes the husband and companion of that partner who has been left, why would that born again divorced person bring someone into the sin of adultery,/possibly spiritual death for the sake of lonliness over obedience to the Lord and His Word? Can the person who divorced his spouse still come back, even after 48 years? There will also be that hope in the Lord, that the His Name would be glorified on the return of the spouse, and if not, the person waiting cannot go back to singleness knowing the Word. I was given a bill of divorcement mid 70s....and it is possible to live alone, without dates, friendships, etc from the opposite gender, but it did take diligence and care on my deportment in my younger years. I love and trust the Lord, knowing He alone has walked me through this.

[@denitzahill5936]

What if your first marriage was to a divorced man? That marriage ended with him cheating and leaving. I question whether its even valid ?

[@BAM-jc7uy]

​@@denitzahill5936 Get out your pencil n paper, use ur center column verse references or TSK (esword) to follow through, searching Scripture with Scripture.... the Lord Himself will personally open the "hidden" Word to you....we are to use the OT/NT as our examples, this is NOT a few minutes one time search of the Scriptures, this study/search does take time and prayer. If you married a divorced person, as a person professing to "know and love the Lord" and born again, the marriage vows taken still included the Lord Himself and you...was that divorced person professing to be born again too??....and IF he was divorced what born again testimony was that?? so you are questioning whether it is even valid??? The new question is why would you want to put another person in a remarriage with you "IF" it might condemn that other person as an...OR to go to.... Question: do u think it is possible to compound even more a situation you are living in for a more serious negative walk with the Lord? ....or would it be better NOT to marry to live single, so that the Lord would be glorified. How could you even go back to a marriage with a person divorced...unless his first wife is dead? Answers for you can only be found in YOUR search of the Scriptures. and remember our life in the flesh as humans is like a blink of an eye compared to all eternity with the Lord.... we are sojourners here, this is NOT our real home and our fleshy worldy passions and wants are of this earth, NOT part of our real life with our God in eternity.❤

[@palee8928]

If your spouse cheats, or if your non-believing spouse doesn’t want to be married to you and leaves, Jesus has given exceptions for divorce in these cases.

[@philipbuckley759]

@@denitzahill5936 being married to a divorced man, is not a covenant relationship, so one would be free to end this adulterous relationship and marry another...

[@philipbuckley759]

@@BAM-jc7uy the short answer....any covenant relationship, is binding....any non covenant relationship is sin and needs to be vacated...

[@denitzahill5936]

Quick question: so I mistakenly married a man who was divorced. A year later he cheated and left me. I had many preachers say I could remarry bc he was not a ' covenant spouse' . I have studdied the scriptures deeply on this subject and realized what an error I made. Would a person make a mistake with me seeing Im now divorced? Just curious

[@philipbuckley759]

this is true....to marry someone, with a living spouse, that means that your....marriage....according, to the Bible was adultery, a non covenant relationship, and as such you would be able to end that relationship and find another one....Biblically speaking...

[@debra9700]

There is absolutely no marriage to another while the 1st spouse lives .. to say a divorced person can marry another after divorce you are adding to the word of God . Those in a marriage after divorce and the 1st spouse lives they are living in ongoing continual adultery and you will go to hell , you will not enter heaven. Repentance is turning away from sin , not continuing in the sin . The adulterous marriage must be dissolved and you either live alone or return to your 1st spouse .

[@grant2149]

Excatly

[@MakemelodyinyourhearttotheLord]

Very good sermon. Thank you. Someone I know has a view on why there is an exception clause in the book of Matthew that goes like this.....Matthew was one of the disciples and could have actually been present when Jesus gave the exception whereas Mark and Luke were not there when Jesus said it as they were not one of the 12. Their teaching in Mark 10 and Luke 16 omits the exception clause because they weren't there to hear Jesus give it..... What is your view on this please?

[@upillarmail1593]

Is there a link for Boice paper?

[@Lisa-ty5xw]

No divorce except if there is immorality in the engagement period. That is Jesus’ standard period. The Jewish view is the marriage begins once the engagement begins.

[@palee8928]

Jesus says if your nonbelieving spouse no longer wants to be married to you, they can leave. We are not forced to make them stay in that case. 1 Corinthians 7:15

[@philipbuckley759]

@@palee8928 not enslaved is not akin to not bound...

[@Thomas116-m2n]

@@philipbuckley759 Then what does it mean? You aren't under bondage but you're still under bondage? No, it means that the marriage is dissolved. You aren't under bondage because that person leaves. What do unbelievers do when they leave? They find another relationship, which is porneia (sexual immorality).

[@jpduster1]

It amazes me when people pick and choose verses and not bother to actually study the text

[@philipbuckley759]

what about the ones, already divorced and remarried....leave, or stay, in that relationship......Piper says stay, what does this speaker say?

[@bradanderson4202]

Leave

[@tedvinessr7187]

The exception is not for marital unfaithfulness but for the marriage of that which God has not joined together. Such marriages are joined by the state but not of God. They are the biscuit burner divorced remarriage. Your sermon is right on except for the betrothal exception. The betrothal is no longer practiced and would not be considered as important as all the remarriages that God hasen't joined together. There is no divorce for that which God has joined together.

[@doglover19601]

He seems to contradict himself.

[@jpduster1]

Why is this preacher picking and choosing scriptures to support his view instead of including all scriptures regarding divorce and the law. The mosaic law given by God himself gives the 3 step process for divorce. This isn’t up for debate . Deuteronomy 24 gives the law. Jesus says he did do come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. Again, not up for debate . Jesus himself said it. How can he abolish the law given by his father? He doesn’t . The original translation is “put away “ not “divorce” . That’s why if you put away your spouse and she marries another she commits adultery because she’s still married. The 3 stop process is not completed . Jesus gave exception him because men were putting away their wives for the silliest of reasons. So although legal, Jesus said no, the ONLY REASON would be for pornea which encompasses all forms of sexual immorality