INTRO: At the close of our last message, here is what I encouraged you to. I said, “And in conclusion to this message, I want to ask you not to do what I have said. Do not take on Goliath. You will die if you do. Here is what I will encourage you to do. Ponder these messages. Study the Word of God. Make very sure of what you believe. And when you are done with those studies, and you are very sure that the Bible allows for no divorce, then be like David.” I believe that the hardest thing about determining what the Bible teaches on divorce and remarriage is not coming to an understanding of what the difficult passages of Scripture mean. It is getting those difficult passages to mean what we want them to mean, and thus to cause the clear passages to come under question. And we do that while at the same time we seek to maintain a respectable system of Bible interpretation. Our difficulty is getting the clear passages to give way to the unclear. But when we conclude that divorce is permissible in one or some or more cases, honest readers of Scripture are again and again faced with texts which seem to be contradicted, and they are made to feel uneasy with those views. And again and again the question sets in: Is divorce really acceptable to God in any case at all? It seems to me that ther3e is true comfort in the heart only when no divorce is allowed at all. But there is a nagging discomfort when divorce is allowed for any one or more reasons. But because it creates such Goliath like circumstances in our lives when someone is already divorced and remarried, there remains one thing to do. Look for some teacher that can silence the whistle of our conscience, so that we can a
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