The Watchman

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The Watchman

• Ezekiel 316-21
• Ezekiel 331-20

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Preach the Word!

• 2 Timothy 41-5

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Rebuke With All Authority

• Titus 211-15

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John the Baptist

• Matthew 141-12
• Hebrews 134
• Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed
  undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God
  will judge.
• 1 Corinthians 69-11

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Paul Earnhart

• Invitation to a Spiritual Revolution, p. 46
• The subject of divorce can fill the heart of a
  preacher with dread. More than two- thirds of
  the preachers for Americas largest Protestant
  denomination recently admitted that they had
  never spoken on the subject. The issue of
  divorce (and remarriage) touches the lives of men
  and women intimately and often painfully.

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• yet those who come to the kingdom must not
  expect that any part of their lives will escape
  the influence of the King nor should they desire
  it since His commands are not arbitrary (1John
  53) but are always for our good (Deuteronomy
  624). However agonizing this teaching may be to
  us, there is no place for the true disciple to
  hide from its implications.

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Matthew 531-32

• Furthermore it has been said, Whoever divorces
  his wife, let him give her a certificate of
  divorce. But I say to you that whoever divorces
  his wife for any reason except sexual immorality
  causes her to commit adultery and whoever
  marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

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• Matthew 191-12
• Mark 101-12
• Mark 1012
• And if a woman divorces her husband and marries
  another, she commits adultery.

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Luke 1618

• Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
  commits adultery and whoever marries her who is
  divorced from her husband commits adultery.

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Kenneth L. Chumbley

• The Gospel of Matthew, p. 105
• To marry someone whose divorce was not occasioned
  by their spouses infidelity is to enter an
  adulterous relationship. . . .

11

• The only reason why this remarriage can be
  regarded as adulterous is that the first marriage
  is still in Gods sight regarded his inviolate.
  Illegitimate divorce does not dissolve the
  marriage bond and consequently the fact of such
  divorce does not relieve the parties concerned
  from any of the obligations incident to marriage.
  . . .

12

• They are still in reality bound to one another in
  the bonds of matrimony and the marital relation
  or any exercise of the privileges and rights of
  the marital relation with any other is adultery
  (Murray, 25). . . .

13

• God, not a civil court or the couple involved,
  has the final say about marriage and divorce. The
  marriage is not over until He says its over (see
  196-9 Mk 1012 shows that Gods law governing
  divorce applies equally to women). . . . The one
  who marries a wrongly divorced person becomes an
  adulterer.

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Galatians 519-21

• Now the works of the flesh are evident, which
  are adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
  lewdness, idolatry greed, covetousness,
  sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies,
  outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions,
  dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,
  drunkenness, revelries, and the like

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• of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also
  told you in time past, that those who practice
  such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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1 John 52-3

• By this we know that we love the children of God,
  when we love God and keep His commandments. For
  this is the love of God, that we keep His
  commandments. And His commandments are not
  burdensome.

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Stephen

• Acts 744-60
• Stephen was murdered for telling the truth.
• Galatians 416
• Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell
  you the truth?