God Speaks Through Sermons!

Amazingly God also speaks through sermons!  Two weeks ago I posted that God speaks through prayer as I received a confirmation in my cell group bible study of a teaching I had made just 2 hours earlier to my son.  Well, same thing happened today.  Again, it was a warning type of confirmation.

I am currently separated from my STBX (soon-to-be-ex).  My son is devastated by this and he's asked me the question of whether a Christian can get remarried.  I told him that I would get back to him on that question because it breaks my heart to give him a straight, but hard answer, that I will never again be with his mother.

As I pondered a response I thought to tell him the biblical response.  The bible allows Christians to get remarried in certain circumstances.  This satisfied him.  I didn't go into any details as he is a child.  As an innocent, not-so-corrupt child, he has an envious trust in the bible.

Well, in tonight's Friday service the message was regarding marriage and that Christians do not divorce under any circumstances.  The preacher taught on THE SAME VERSES I DID (as I mentioned I spoke vaguely as my son is only 8).  The preacher OMITTED the verses regarding the conditions that must be present if a divorce is to be considered.  These omitted verses are as follows:

Matthew 19:9 (the full context is Matthew 19:3-9):
9       And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

1 Corinthians 7:15 (the full context is 1 Corinthians 7:1-16):
15     But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.

He basically preached that there are NO DIVORCES allowed for Christians.

He was 68 and it was certainly admirable that he's had a successful marriage full of children (6), but not every time does it work out this way for all people.  It seems to me that divorce is allowed under abandonment or adultery.  Through God's mercy, my soon to be divorce falls under this provision.

However, he was very convicting to me in the sense that he pounded the pulpit tonight regarding man's headship and prime responsibility before God in the success or destruction of a home.  I accept my headship and that during the marriage I was a lousy priest of our marriage.  Although she wasn't a Christian that still didn't abrogate my husbandly duties under the bible.