Gympie Wesleyan Methodist Church
Sunday, May 5th, 2019
Jesus and Divorce
Locations & Times
70 Exhibition Rd, Southside QLD 4570, Australia
Sunday 9:00 AM
Divorce
Divorce is not the unforgivable sin!
Divorce is destructive and damaging to all who are involved
Divorce is not the unforgivable sin!
Divorce is destructive and damaging to all who are involved
The Traditional Protestant View
Jesus allows only one reason for divorce - adultery
The woman who was wrongfully divorced, though not made an adulteress by that divorce, will become one by and by when, as is likely, she marries another man
Jesus allows only one reason for divorce - adultery
The woman who was wrongfully divorced, though not made an adulteress by that divorce, will become one by and by when, as is likely, she marries another man
Three Verbs
1. To “commit adultery”
More correctly….
Something she has had done to her by the husband who wrongfully divorced her.
2. The “divorced” woman
More correctly….
“A woman who has suffered divorce”
“whoever marries a woman wrongly divorced, and who has therefore suffered a smeared reputation, that man who marries her also suffers along with her."
3. “Commits” adultery
More correctly….
“‘He suffers adultery with her’ ”
1. To “commit adultery”
More correctly….
Something she has had done to her by the husband who wrongfully divorced her.
2. The “divorced” woman
More correctly….
“A woman who has suffered divorce”
“whoever marries a woman wrongly divorced, and who has therefore suffered a smeared reputation, that man who marries her also suffers along with her."
3. “Commits” adultery
More correctly….
“‘He suffers adultery with her’ ”
The Christian Life in a Fallen World - Three Truths
Jesus is attempting to right the immense distortions of the Word of God
Divorce does enormous harm to all involved, especially the woman
Jesus is not forbidding the remarriage of divorced persons
Jesus is attempting to right the immense distortions of the Word of God
Divorce does enormous harm to all involved, especially the woman
Jesus is not forbidding the remarriage of divorced persons
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