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DIVORCE
DIVORCE & REMARRIAGE
Joy Evang.
Free Church December 6, 1995
ISSUES:
1.
Is there grounds where divorce is never permitted?
Yes.
2. Is Divorce permitted?
a.
What does the Old Testament say?
b.
What do the Gospel's say?
c.
What does Paul say?
1].
what about unbelieving mate?
2].
what about the children?
3.
Is Divorce the unpardonable sin?
4. Is Remarriage permitted?
THE PROBLEM OF BALANCE.
~* We as Evangelicals are different than the liberals.
They hold that one passage contradicts the other, and therefore as an example, if they disagree with Paul, they say he is wrong.
We believe that the Bible is without error or mistake or contradictions.
When it seems to contradict, it is not the Bible's fault but our understanding.
The Old Testament did not teach one thing and then Jesus teaches something else and then Paul something else.
It is all woven together.
a. Don't divorce
<if divorced remain single------------------It is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire>
*DIVORCE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT*
*DEUT 22:13-29*
describes two circumstances where divorce is proscribed.
One was the case where the husband "turned against" his wife and sought to justify a divorce by accusing her of premarital unchastity.
Assuming the charge was false, the verdict was clear; "And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days v19
The other circumstance involved intercourse with an unbetrothed virgin.
In this instance the man was required to marry the girl and never to divorce her v 29
The betrothed couple wee legally considered as husband and wife in most respects.
As the betrothal, the bridegroom, personally or by deputy, handed to the bride a piece of money or a letter, it being expressly stated in each case that the man thereby espoused the woman.
From the moment of betrothal both parties were regarded, and treated by law as if they had been actually married, except as regarded their living together" Alfred Edersheim.
The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah 1:354
DEUT.
22:19 NO DIVORCE 22:28-29
'SHE SHALL BECOME HIS WIFE BECAUSE HE HAS VIOLATED HER; HE CANNOT DIVORCE HER ALL HIS DAYS.
DEUT.
24:1-3
This passage does not institute divorce but deals with practice already known.
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"AN INDECENCY"
*1.
NOT ADULTERY *= They would receive the death penalty for that
2. Lit, Nakedness of a thing
a. immodest exposure
b. unwomanly conduct.
3. v 4 Protection of 2nd marriage.
requires all the men to divorce their foreign unbelieving wives.
The reason was their wives led them away from the Lord and into all types of abominations.
Incest, child sacrifices, worship of sex god, adultery with the pagan priestess.
Worship of Molech,
Idolartry and immorality.
EZRA 9:1-3,12-15
EZRA 10:1-3, 10-19.
NEH.
13:23-31;
MAL.
2:10-16
In order to marry foreign wives, some Israelites had divorced their Jewish wives, a sin Malachi severely denounced.
God hates divorce, he declared, and no exception was made for so-called legitimate divorces.
Malachi said divorce does:
1.
It breaks fellowships so that the Lord did not accept the offerings Mal.
2:13
2. It breaks the marriage covenant v 14
3.
It violates God's original intention for marriage v 15
4. It incurs God's hatred v 16
The Old Testament teaches that marriage should be:
1. purposeful
2. pure free from incest and heathen entanglements
3. permanent.
Divorce was practised but not prescribed.
It was proscribed in certain instances
as was the remarriage of a previously divorced partner.
And God declares His hatred of divorce.
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DIVORCE V MATTHEW 5:31-32
Our Lord dealt with the issue of divorce in great detail in Matthew 19:1-12
The Mosaic law requirement of a bill of divorce in Deuteronmy was a civilized act at the time, for the men of Israel were dismissing their wives too easily.
From Deut 24 forward a man must provide the women he divorced with at least the dignity of a document indication the divorce was his decision, not hers, thus declaring in a formal way that the women could be married again.
Deut.
24:
The paper of Deut.
24 at least put a legal right into women's hands it not a sense of self-respect into their hearts.
The problem of divorce is not new.
It was a problem back even before Christ.
I think it was a problem even during the 400 years of Intertestatmental period.
RABBI SHAMMI - Hard school of Divorce.
RABBI HILLEL - Easy school of Divorce.
RABBI AQUIBA - The easy easy school of Divorce
DEUTERONOMY 24:1
These two men and their disciples fought in the first century between their schools, and the battle can be summarized as a war over two words in DEUTERONOMY 24:1
*'IF THEN SHE FINDS NO FAVOR IN HIS EYES BECAUSE HE HAS FOUND SOME INDECENCY [ERVATH DAVAR] LITERALLY "NAKEDNESS OF A THING.' BDB 789 IN HER*.
The Liberal RABBI HILLEL stressed the word "Davar" and said Moses mean "indency" indecency such as bad housekeeping, wart on her face, a blemish spot, burning the leftsa, or toast."
The Conservative *RABBI SHAMMAI* stressed the word "INDECENCY " [ervath" nakedness" and said Moses meant only the ultimate indecency of MARITAL INFIDELITY.
AQUIBA stressed the still earlier words in Deuteronmy 24:1 that said "*IF THEN SHE FINDS NO FAVOR [HEN], i.e.*
*GRACE, BEAUTY, IN HIS EYES BECAUSE HE HAS FOUND SOME INDECENCY IN HER*.'
He interpreted this to mean "*IF SHE NO LONGER SEEMED BEAUTIFUL TO HIM* " or if another woman seemed more beautiful to him, he could divorce.
MISHNAH P 307-321
The School of SHAMAI
says: A man may not divorce his wife unless he has found unchastity in her,
for it is written, BECAUSE he hath found in her indecency in anything.
And the School of HILLEL
say: [He may divorce her] even if she spoiled a dish for hi, for it is written, BECAUSE he hath found in her indecency in anyting.
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