INTRO: Over the years I have pondered the subject of divorce and remarriage. It is a most difficult subject. In my estimation, Deuteronomy 24 is the one key passage that has been used to allow for divorce. You might turn to that passage. As I needed to rethink the whole subject recently, my interest was tweaked to restudy this crucial passage. I thought if I could do it in one message, I would give that message now. So I studied the subject once more and want to do what I have wanted to do but have not done before and that is to give one message on Deuteronomy 24. Now look at Deuteronomy 24: 1 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house,
2 "when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man's wife,
3 "if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife,
4 "then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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The scriptures say that: “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her... what does uncleanness mean? There are a lot of opinions. Some opinions are that she may have become sick with a disfiguring skin disease. Or she may become over or under weight. What’s very interesting also, is that only reason the second man divorces her, was that he hated her. Maybe this should be the only requirement for a biblical divorce? But Jesus said the real reason was hardness of heart. Men react in two ways, with love or with hate, when they don’t get what they think, they deserve. Could it be that Moses is taking about engaged couples? Take Joseph, when he heard of Marys condition, he responded with compassion for Mary and though about what to do, he even slept on it. Most men these days would decide what to do in 1 second. Stone her! Men who hated their wives enough to try and get them stoned were, heavily fined and never allowed to divorce them Deut 22:19 this contradicts Deut 24:1-4
