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Saints, God’s Word touches every area of our
lives—nothing is beyond its jurisdiction. Everything in the human
realm of existence is touched by his Word; nothing in the experience
of man is left uncovered; the Word is totally comprehensive and
all-inclusive. The Word of God touches all our temperaments. It
touches our dress, our behaviour, our conversations, and it touches
everything that we can think of. If we are open, we will find that
God’s Word has something to say about every thing. Somewhere in the
Word of God there will be something about it. Therefore, a spiritual
people, God’s true remnant must give a large place to God’s Word in
their lives. They must allow the Word to correct them and adjust
them. If the Word of God says it, that is all to it! There is no
place in them to argue with the Word. That is the quality of His
true remnant. They do not argue or defend things.
It is so sad that today many who claim to be the remnant and who
proclaim the doctrine of the remnant and of restoration are not open
to God’s Word. They are totally out of line with the Word of God in
many areas. A spirit of the world and of worldliness has set into
these groups. They are not open to God’s corrective Word on matters
like head covering, dressing, marriage, divorce and remarriage. Some
say that head covering is an eastern culture. People incorporate
their own ideas into God’s Word. They have found out their own easy
routes and escape paths for the soul that does not want to be
subject to the Spirit and to the Word. Let us be assured that there
is no passage in the whole Bible that promotes remarriage while the
other spouse is alive! Such marriages are seen as adultery in the
sight of the Lord as the Word of God declares very clearly. It is
futile to argue with God’s Word. My heart is really filled with
sorrow when I see the moral condition of God’s people, including
those who preach restoration and the glorious Kingdom.
God’s people have become the principal agents of moral corruption
through divorce and remarriage. There are pastors who teach that it
is within God’s will for an unhappy partner to divorce their
lifetime spouse and remarry someone more compatible both spiritually
and naturally. A number of pastors and leaders have even dared to
declare that they have been directed by God to divorce their own
rightful spouses and remarry another, in order to be more effective
in ministry.
Typically, they remain not only in the church, but are often
offered greater pulpits to preach from. While some have championed
the cause of divorce and remarriage, many have merely aided and
abetted this curse through indifference and neglect. I have
witnessed several sincere leaders stand idly by, double minded and
confused, as more and more divorced members of their flock come and
stand before them to be remarried once again. They dare to presume
that they will not be held personally accountable for their role in
ceremonially sanctifying adultery. Yes, I realize this is a serious
statement. Saints, church-blessed divorces and remarriages
have brought much pain and deception into the lives of God’s people.
The unsaved are blind, living in darkness and yet the very people
who could, and should be showing the way, offer no light or life in
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