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Marriage and Divorce#063
What are causes and cures for divorce?Well, the big cause of divorce is unfaithfulness. The vows men and women make to each other before God are cast aside like a worn out pair of blue jeans. People are found to be untrustworthy. They do not keep their word. Now I'm not just talking about cases of adultery. Adultery is rampant in America. Failure to keep your word is much worse than the actual adultery. Most marriage vows include a commitment to love your husband or wife until death separates you. Unfortunately, when the emotional high in marriage subsides, some folks think love has departed. So they bail out of their marriage. Incompatibility they call it. Most states have very liberal divorce laws. So it's easy for folks to break their promises. But God takes a very dim view of breaking marriage vows. "It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay" (Ecclesiastes 5:5). You may walk out of your marriage and get a divorce from the state. But as far as God is concerned there are only two legitimate grounds for divorce. The first ground is adultery. Matthew 19:9 says, "Whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery." Second, in the situation where one marriage partner becomes a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and finds he or she is married to an unbeliever, God permits the unbeliever to file for a divorce. He says, "If the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases" (1 Corinthians 7:15).
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