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Monday, December 15, 2008

One wife

The qualifications of a pastor are given in I Timothy 3 and Titus 1.  We don't call them suggestions, but rather qualifications, for the scriptures say, "A bishop then must..."

The most controversial one listed deals with the marital status. It says in both accounts that the pastor is to be the husband of one wife.  Now the liberal minded comes along and says that means one at a time.  Remember, the pastor is to be an example to the believer.  While many in our society have gone through the terrible heartache of divorce, it isn't God's will.  If God's preachers were allowed to divorce and remarry and continue to pastor the Lord's church, that would surely negate the plain statement of the Lord Jesus when he said in Mark 10
6   But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7   For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8   And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9   What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

I would also direct you to Romans 7:2,3 which tell us that if you marry another while the one you married first is still alive, you have committed adultery.
2   For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3   So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

A man who married, then later is divorced, and then remarries while his first wife is alive is an adulterer.  He has disqualified himself from the ministry, though he will give account to the Lord for the ministry he did not fulfill, as the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.  And no matter how you try to justify it, he has two wives, and he may be supporting both of them also (alimony).  What a mess.  That is what goes on in the world constantly, but is not to be the example that the man of God sets forth in a N.T. Baptist church.

4 comments:

  1. Here is your ONE comment.

    I am glad to be your ONE wife. :o)

    I love you!

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  2. I wanted to see MonocogSNOWman in action- it would be the ONE snow of the decade, right?! How does that bike do in the *SNOW*???!!!!

    (Or have you got ONE better picture to post ONCE on your blog?!)

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  3. How would you apply Exodus 22:16,17 and Deuteronomy 22:28,29 with Matthew 19:9? Please take into consideration that these laws are eternal (Psalm 119:160) and that Jesus is very angry that His "people" are rejecting them today (Ezekiel 5:6), and that a concept of "repentance" can be learned in Ezekiel 33:11-20. ;-)

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  4. Ex. 22 and Deut. 22 deal with both persons involved in fornication. Matthew 19 deals with the situation when one of the betrothed finds out that the other was unfaithful and committed fornication before they married. That is why Joseph was about to put away Mary, believing she was with child because of fornication.

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