1st Corinthians 7:1-3, “Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”
From our text passage it is evident that the church at Corinth had sent a letter to the Apostle Paul asking him questions about marriage, divorce and remarriage. I encourage you to read the entire chapter of 1st Corinthians chapter 7. Here is what I believe from the Bible. We often here churchgoers talk about “God's will,” “God's will,” “God's will,” but few Christians have a biblical mindset toward God's will. I believe there are three wills of God:
- God's perfect will
- God's acceptable will
- God's permissive will
God's Perfect Will
Regarding marriage, God's perfect will is that one man and one woman get legally married and stay together for a lifetime, come what may. A marriage is two people making a life for each other. Marriage is two people never giving up on each other. That being said, life is much more complicated. In any marriage you are uniting two sinners.
God's Acceptable Will
And then there is God's acceptable will. The Bible teaches in 1st Corinthians 7:12-14 that if one spouse is saved, but the other is still lost as a Christ-rejecter, you should NOT divorce them. However, verse 15 says if they want to divorce you, “let him depart.” This is God's acceptable will, not His perfect will. God hates divorce (Jeremiah 3:20; Malachi 2:16). I believe there are no biblical grounds for divorce, not even adultery.
When Jesus gave permission to divorce in Matthew 19:9 in cases of fornication, He was teaching Old Testament law instituted under Moses, which said that if a man's fiancée was found to be unclean, he could break off the engagement before the actual marriage was consummated. This is exactly what happened with Joseph and Mary. When he learned that his bride to be was pregnant, Joseph sought to secretly put her away (Matthew 1:19).
But there are no biblical grounds for divorcing an unfaithful spouse who has commit adultery. How silly it would be to believe that a married person could biblically divorce a spouse guilty of adultery, but not for committing murder, kidnapping, bank robbery or embezzlement. In Matthew 18:22, Jesus plainly taught that we are to forgive others 490 times each day! In a divorce, a spouse is declaring their own self-righteousness and refusal to forgive their spouse.
I am against all divorce! I have never, and never will, recommend that anyone file for divorce. That being said, ungodly lawyers prey upon married couples to financially ravish them. Attorney's make a sick living by taking advantage of people at the darkest hours of their life when they are hurting and devastated. No wonder Steven Spielberg has a fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur biting a lawyer in half in Jurassic Park (I love that movie). A contested divorce nowadays can cost upwards of $100,000, and lawyers want that!
In any divorce, only one person can file (aka, the plaintiff). The other souse then becomes the defendant. I humbly believe that when one's spouse files for divorce, after doing all you can to stop the divorce, you would be wise not to contest the divorce. Why fight someone who no longer wants to live under the same roof with you? After 19 years of a troublesome marriage, when my wife filed for divorce in June of 2006, U.S. Marshalls came to my workplace on Guam and handed me a summons to divorce court. I was working alone that afternoon at the U.S. Postal Service and went into the maintenance parts room, turned off the lights, and wept bitterly for hours. Thankfully it was a slow night. I felt like my life had ended.
When I went to court, the first thing that ungodly judge said to me was, “You better get a lawyer!” They asked how much money I had in the bank. They asked if my house was paid for. You see, they are greedy wicked predators! Judges are nothing more than overpaid lawyers, and lawyers are serpents laboring for the Devil. You couldn't pay me enough money to work in the rotten $50,000,000,000 a year American divorce industry!!! Woe unto the wicked! Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) was so right, “Divorce is a sin that perpetuates for a lifetime.” God hates divorce. Jeremiah 3:20, “Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.”
Jesus despised lawyers! Luke 11:46, “And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.” Do you know the difference between a lawyer and a catfish? One is scum-sucking scavenger, the other is just a fish!
The court system is designed to create conflict. Many lawyers encourage their clients to be as aggressive as possible, tempting them with winning more money. And once someone starts making horrible accusations toward you in court, you have no choice but to fight back, which results in lawyers preying upon you for tens of thousands of dollar. Lawyers and judges deliberately create a battleground to profit from your destroyed marriage.
Please watch this shocking documentary dear reader...
Divorce Corp
Please protect your marriage from Satanic attack. The best defense is a good offense! Satan may seem to be on the loose, but he's on a leash. Satan is brilliant, but he's not omniscient. Satan cannot do anything without God's permission, as we see in Job chapter one concerning Job. The Devil needed God's permission to breach the hedge. God does not give us what we can handle, He helps us handle what we've been given. God is greatly glorified when we choose to trust Him through trials, suffering, persecution and tears.
God's Permissive Will
Now, I differ from many preachers in that I believe in remarriage. If you chose to divorce your spouse for any reason, you will be committing adultery if you remarry someone else, but please notice what the Scripture says in 1st Corinthians 7:1-2, “Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.” This is as biblical as thou shalt not kill in Exodus 20:13. This is as biblical as thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself in Matthew 19:19. God wants nearly everyone married!
1st Corinthians 7:8-9, “I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.” Here we have a direct commandment from God that if you are unmarried (for whatever reason, including if YOU divorced your former spouse), and you are burning with sexual desire from a strong libido, you absolutely need to get remarried. This will prevent the sin of fornication and potential STD's in the church (1st Corinthians 7:1-2).
Sadly, kindly said, they have their heads stuck up their asses at Pensacola Christian College (PCC), where once you are divorced they forbid anyone from ever getting remarried. When I attended their Campus Church in 2021, and sincerely said that I am divorced hoped to find a wife at Campus Church, a group of church staff members literally turned and walked away from me like I had passed putrid gas. What self-righteous hypocrites!!! There is no love for individual sinners at PCC, only the cult system that always come first.
So, dear reader, if you have blown God's perfect will for your life by filing for divorce, or you are the victim of an unwanted divorce, God's acceptable will would be for you to remain single for the remainder of your earthly life (1st Corinthians 7:27). However, if you are burning with sexual desire or the inexplicable pain of loneliness, it is within God's permissive will that you get remarried to someone else. These are my beliefs based upon the plain clear-cut teaching of the inspired Holy Scriptures. Thank you for reading. Jesus is precious!!!
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