INTRO: This summer, after a few events, I determined to do a few more messages on divorce and remarriage. A good number of years ago I preached my first messages on divorce and remarriage. However, in those first messages I confessed that I did not understand Deuteronomy 24:1-4.
Well, it was some years later that I came to an interpretation of Deuteronomy 24 that satisfied me and I will give it briefly later. When I had completed that message I thought I was done preaching on this subject. But still later I did two messages on the reason why God hates divorce and again, I had not intended to speak on this subject again. Now I am in semi-retirement, and yet one more time I feel constrained to do a few more messages on this subject.
A book that was given to me and which I highly recommend to you, is a book written by a British doctor by name of E.S. Williams. It is called, “The Great Divorce Controversy”. He mentions a law that nobody tries to remember. It is this, once you allow divorce for one reason, it will never stay with one reason. And when you allow it for two, it won’t stay with two either. That is an unfailing law. And when one allows divorce because of compassion for one couple or family member or friend, one is helping to destroy a huge section of humanity. The compassion has become a crime. But few care to look beyond the immediate. It is a sore subject, and we don’t want to hear about it. |
