1 Corinthians 7:15 Freedom from Bondage to the Unbelieving Spouse Who Leaves

For those new to my channel, I now have a rather "scandalous" marriage background for a follower and servant of Christ. But please remember God himself is a divorcee (Jer 3:8) and so is Abraham, the father of our faith (Gen 16:3, 21:14). I never wanted to be divorced one time, much less twice. I didn't want my first wife to cheat on me and then divorce me when I started taking Christ seriously. I also didn't want my second wife to reject my headship and warnings to her about New Age deceptions and anti-Christ apostasty, such that she would eventually completely reject Jesus Christ, me, and our marriage. I didn't want any of these disasters to happen, but they did! But thanks be to the gracious Lord I am free to remarry again and I'm going to do so!

If I married five times and each one committed adultery or each one went apostate and left me, I would be free to marry a sixth time without being at fault or committing any sin. The Scripture is crystal clear on this even to a child, and so it was to the reformers who wrote the Westminster Confession of Faith which established what the reformed church would embrace as doctrine on this issue.

For four years, I remained in bondage to the marriage hoping she would come back. This is the story of how the Lord finally set me free from an unrepentant apostate spouse. Indeed, God's mercy has an expiration date on it (Luke 13:7, Rev 2:21)

Matthew 19:9 and 1 Corinthians 7:15 are very clear to a child, but famous men like John Piper and David Pawson have completely missed the true heart of God and they have added their own understanding, trapping perhaps tens of thousands in bondage to a child of the devil, or to loneliness, when that is not what God has ever intended. They have indeed preached the letter which KILLETH rather than the Spirit which gives LIFE. The ignorance of teaching that we have a "Good Father" whom punishes the faithful believing spouses because of the sin of the unfaithful unbelieving spouse, is beyond ALL of my understanding and beyond the simple message of Mat 19:9 and 1 Cor 7:15. Christians who teach this about God should be ashamed!

For those who do not have a proper understanding of divorce and remarriage in instances of infidelity and abandonment, I have included the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) statement on this doctrine, in the recording you will hear. Sadly, even the early Puritans understood the teachings of Jesus and Paul in Mat 19:9 and 1 Cor 7:15 so clearly. Christ came to set people free from sin and the children of the devil, not to put them in bondage, with no hope of freedom! You cannot read Mat 19:9, which clearly permits remarriage after adultery, and you cannot read 1 Cor 7:15 which frees the believing spouse from the unbelieving spouse who has left, so they can remarry, and then say that God only permits remarriage if your first spouse physically dies. If you attempt to teach that, PLEASE NOTICE you cannot do so without ADDING YOUR OWN WORDS AND FALSE INTERPRETATIONS TO IT. You have to go beyond the Scripture and add your own arguments because if you leave the Scriptures to say what they clearly say, there is no confusion!

The remarkable story of of my first marriage and subsequent 777 day divorce, where God was my only attorney can be heard here: https://relentlessheart.com/series#/trusting-god-in-crisis/

March 24th, 2016 - After waiting for almost 5.5 years for a promise I would be married again, I flew to India and married the wife God led me to. India becomes a life changing experience which deeply impacts me, still to this day. I live in a Tiny House today, because of India. I brought her back to the United States, nine months to the day, I first landed in India on Dec 24th, 2016. We saw providence after providence and answered prayer after answered prayer of God walking us into this. Within months of returning to the US, she has was being led astray, by a New Age, anti-Christ spirit, from her once pure and sincere faith in Jesus Christ, which she had since 2008, when she was first baptized. She refused to listen to my warnings.

In March of 2019, when the Lord started telling me we were going to be moving to New Zealand, she refused to go with me. At her request, we filed for a very simple uncontested divorce on September 11, 2019, ironically, SEVEN YEARS TO THE DAY, my first final divorce judgment was signed by the judge...September 11, 2012 However, that divorce was rejected by the court over a wrong word in the document. We continued to live in relative peace under the same roof until November 2019, when she became increasingly antagonistic towards my following Christ. After four years of waiting for her, the Lord told me to let her go and move on...this is the exact story of how that happened.