Q&A: What does God say about divorce?
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Full Transcript
One of the most complicated yet practical questions in the church today is a question of divorce and it’s so complicated and so nuanced that I’m not going to try to tackle. It just a few minutes. I’m going to give you some thoughts, but I’m really going to encourage you to listen to the podcast interview. We have linked to this question, but bottom line got hates divorce. The scripture says he hates divorce. Why because God loves covenant. He created marriage to be this earthly reflection of the faithful covenant that he has with this people. And so covenant is precious. It’s spiritual it’s sacred. And when there’s a break in covenant, it’s really really serious. We also see in Scripture that there are some provisions for divorce. Although it was never God’s intention from the beginning as Jesus said there are reasons that come from the hardness of the human heart that lead to divorce. We also see that there’s redemption and forgiveness for all situations under the blood. Jesus Christ when we confessed and seek him and so my encouragement to you would be first of all to recognize the sacredness and the importance of covenant within marriage, we hold that highly as scripture says let no man tear apart where God has brought together that there’s something spiritual and sacred about the covenant of marriage, but also we live in a broken world that has some very difficult realities around marriage. So you need to seek discernment from somebody who understands the scripture who understands Biblical teaching on marriage divorce remarriage and prayerfully bring your situation before the Lord to ask for his wisdom and discernment. And again, I hope you’ll check out the podcast that we have that goes into more of the nuance of how we make those decisions.