A Sober Warning
October 12, 2007Earlier this week my friend and Conventicle blogger Chris Ross pointed me to a link that I’d like to commend to you. Dwight Edwards (a direct descendent of Jonathan Edwards) was the senior pastor of College Station, Texas from 1990-2003. Despite great giftedness, Dwight had a ‘ministry blow out’ in 2003 for moral reasons. Since then, he has come to repentance and returned to church – though not to leadership.
Several months ago, Dwight gave a public testimony at a church service and highlighted some factors that contributed to his fall. I commend this to you as a sobering warning.
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Thanks, Colin. I pray that this might be of help to someone.
NB – Dwight was pastor of Grace Bible Church in the city of College Station. Folks from Texas will certainly know the difference!
Keep up the great work. God bless.
I remember meeting Dwight at a book store I worked at. The only thing I remember was that he seemed un-awed by the fact that he was related to Jonathan Edwards.
I’ll look forward to listening to the testimony.
Thanks for that clarification Chris. I’m not even sure where Texas is: is that a country?
It isn’t now, but it was between 1836 and 1845!
It is good to hear that he forsook the adulterous union (remarriage) he was in and returned to his biblical wife………. Blessings…….
“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery.” Luke 16:18
Now is the time to speak up on what the Bible has to say about divorce and remarriage before another generation is deceived.
The Bible clearly says that whenever remarriage occurs, adultery results, and that is pretty clear to every Bible reader.
In Romans 7:2 we are clearly told why the remarriage of divorced persons is adultery. It is adultery because the first marriage is still binding. “A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives.” Since she is bound to him as long as he lives, all other relationships are adultery. This is easy to understand.
People talk in our day about “ending” marriages.
But that is impossible to do, you can’t do it.
It is not divorce, but death, that ends marriages. The only thing that divorce does is, make a new relationship adultery and while remarriage is legal in the eyes of the government, it is illegal to God. As long as a former mate is living, the original marriage union is secure in God’s eyes–and that is the State of Marriage.
When one of the married partners separates from the other and joins himself to someone else, that does not free him from the state of marriage that he is in with his first wife, but instead, it enters him into a state of adultery.
Proverbs 28:13 makes it clear that God wants all of us to turn from sinful living. John the Baptist lost his head defending this principle. Mark 6:17-18 tells how John the Baptist had said that it was not lawful for Herod to have his brother’s wife after a divorce. Herodias, was legally divorced by Roman law, and newly married to Herod Antipas, but John still said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” after they were remarried.
Brothers and Sisters, don’t go shopping around for someone to justify what Jesus Christ clearly and repeatedly condemned. God has not changed His law to allow a man who has stolen another man’s wife to keep her. Nor has He changed His law to allow a woman who has seduced a husband away from his wife and children to keep someone else’s husband. Nor will He join two people in a God condemned wedding ceremony.
It is important to notice that neither the Gospel of Mark, nor the Gospel of John recognized Herod’s second marriage as valid. In Mark 6:17 it describes the woman as “his brother Philip’s wife,” after a divorce. He called her Phillip’s wife after she was divorced. That is whose wife she was, even though Herod had married her. The divorce did not end the marriage. She did not become Herod’s wife upon remarriage. Herod was living with her in adultery; she was still Philip’s wife. God does not recognize the second marriage because the first marriage is binding until death. That is an eternal principle settled in the eternal counsels of God.
From God’s point of view, all first marriages are binding, and can be broken only by death. Divorce does not dissolve the “bond” of marriage. If it did, there would be no adultery in a remarriage. The Bible condemns remarriage after a divorce.
Every faithful disciple of Christ needs to speak God’s truth about marriage and show people, according to Scripture, that they are bound to their first spouse as long as they live.
Check out http://www.marriagedivorce.com
We must help people see the truth and keep them out of adultery, because unless they give up their adultery, they will not be forgiven.
Adulterers… will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9
Search your Bible and find out what God has to say about Divorce and Remarriage. Don’t be deceived.
“A husband must not divorce his wife.”
1 Corinthians 7:11
because;
“The Lord was witness to the covenant made at your marriage.” Malachi 2:14
which binds a man to his wife for life;
“A wife is married to her husband as long as he lives.”
1 Corinthians 7:39
and because;
“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery.”
Luke 16:18
Therefore, if a man divorces his wife and marries another he becomes an adulterer;
“Thou shall not commit adultery.”
Exodus 20:14
“The man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul.”
Proverbs 6:32
“Adulterers…will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
1 Corinthians 6:9
A divorce does not free a man from his wife because;
“A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives.”
1 Corinthians 7:39
Man invented no fault divorce. Divorce does not dissolve a marriage covenant. Jesus calls remarriage adultery. No legitimate marriage is ever called adultery.
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Adultery is identified in every passage where the remarriage of divorced persons is mentioned. Adultery is only forgiven, if it is given up…stopped!
Find the truth at http://www.marriagedivorce.com