God's Word is very clear that there is no allowance for remarriage. If God's Word specifically states remarriage is adultery and not a marriage, then how do you get out of adultery? You leave it. Just like if two homosexuals were in a "marriage", they became saved, should they stay in their "marriage"? No. why? Because God calls homosexuality a sin and they have to leave it. You wouldn't expect them to stay in their 'marriage" would you? The same applies to those in remarriages that God calls adultery.
It was not biblical to divorce the first time so that means you were never allowed to divorce from your first Covenant marriage not ever. GOD HATES DIVORCE. So when the divorce took place let us say for adultery you may be given a divorce paper..........that's it, end of, nothing more, no more can you marry again, because you are still spiritually bound in a covenant marriage to the said husband or wife you married, Jesus said it was due to our hard hardheartedness, that a paper of divorce was given but it was not so when Moses was alive (Jesus cannot lie ever). So you were and are not permitted to remarry. This is the only permissible clause allowed for divorce........but wait what does the verse continue to say.... and anyone who marries a divorced person commits Adultery.......why because of your hard heart, you may have a paper of divorce BUT in Gods eyes you are legally bound to your first marriage that only is dissolved by death,
To remain in adultery is Unrighteous and to come out of adultery is Righteous. To remain in a marriage where you are the innocent party ie wife or husband and it is your husband or wife that is committing adultery and you want to remain married to them regardless of the sin they are committing by defiling themselves in acts of adultery through fornication you may win them back, just as Hosea was told by God to marry the harlot and he kept taking her back. Just like us we were all harlots prostituting ourselves with chasing after whatever made us feel good, whatever filled the Spiritual void in our lives. But now we are reconciled with Our Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ, we have seen the light, the scales are removed from our eyes, let us be forever pleasing in Our Fathers sight by obeying HIS WORD, Amen
Romans 7:2-3 says that when her covenant spouse dies, she is no longer an adulteress even though she is remarried. If the second spouse does not have a living covenant wife, then I personally would renew the vows. If the second spouse has a covenant living wife, then she can't be married to him, for it is adultery and it needs to be dissolved.
Romans 7:2-3
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.
His desire above all desires. His ordinations above all ordinations. God's court is the highest court. In His court, a marriage that takes place between one man and one woman, it being the first marriage for both, is not simply what we as people think is a "marriage", here on earth. In God's eyes, it is more than just a joining of two people legally. It is a bonding of two people, in all ways. It is a covenant meant for as long as our body is here on earth and alive, before we are reunited with Christ. God hates divorce, it isn't His will, ever. Divorce is only a divorce in God's eyes, if a covenant couple separate, physically, and have an earthly court issue a certificate of "divorce", and even so, God doesn't ordain it, thus He doesn't condone it, and as far as He's concerned, the two are still one flesh, they are still a married couple, because in His court, they were married, and in His court He has declared that only death ends their marriage. So, any other union between two people where one or both has had a divorce in an earthly court, while an earthly court may declare the new union a marriage, in God's eyes, in His court, it isn't a marriage, it's an adulterous union, it's two people joined together in sin. So "leaving" it, as you keep asking, assuming it to then be another divorce and thus another wrong, actually isn't so. The leaving isn't about committing the sin of divorce *again*, since in God's eyes it wasn't a true marriage, thus it's a leaving of the adulterous union, thus a leaving of sin, which of course is right.
The couple in the adulterous union, (the ones who are married according to the earthly court not Gods) would need to have an earthly court give a certificate of divorce, dissolving the union legally, since to obey God also means doing things right according to the earthly courts, and since the earthly courts request legal proceedings for a marriage or a divorce, as public declarations, for all to know of the state between two people, then we who are about being obedient to the law, of people or of The Lord, must follow the rules accordingly. Just as we make a legal declaration of a union to someone, we make a legal declaration of a dissolution of a union.
So to answer your question again, it's not more sin to divorce *again*, in an earthly court. It's more sin to continue to stay in such a union - a union that involves one or both in that union having been married prior to someone else, and one or both of their previous spouses are still alive. Because 1. God says He hates divorce (meaning one or both covenant spouses allowing their marriage to be declared no longer a marriage in an earthly court) 2. God says only death of one or both of the spouses in a covenant (meaning first) marriage, ends that marriage in God's eyes, and God is supreme, thus His will, His rules, reign above all, thus we adhere to Him, and His rules, above all other rules 3. God doesn't view any other unions as sacred, righteous/holy, covenants, He views them as corrupt, unrighteous/unholy, unions, because they are adultery, they are sin. 4. God is a God that is about mercy and grace, and forgiveness, and reconciliation, and restoration. Most people omit the reconciliation and restoration. God isn't just about mercy - not giving punishment that is deserved. He isn't just about grace - giving a reward that isn't deserved. He isn't just about forgiveness - not keeping an account of a sin, setting a person free of the condemnation of sin. He is about reconciliation - repairing the damage caused because of sin. Repairing that which is broken. Re-instituting things the way they were meant to be. God is about restoration - bringing back whatever was stolen or lost, whatever is missing. Which means, if covenant spouses have separated, or have divorced - if their union has been damaged and they are broken apart, God want's them reunited, and their relationship repaired. He wants those two to come back together, in all ways, and He can make it happen, and He wants to be the glue that holds it together that He is meant to be. God can restore whatever disappeared, whatever was taken away, whatever was lost from the union, that led to the divorce. He can re-instill the eros love, and the agape love, that is meant to exist between a husband and wife. He can re-instill the mental, emotional, physical, attraction. He can re-instill the affection. He can re-instill the faith, the trust. He can re-instill peace, and joy. He can re-instill faith, and dedication to each other. He can re-instill all that is meant to be in a marriage. He is that powerful, and it is His will. The problem is, people don't look to Him to make it happen. They don't believe in His supremacy His power, that He can do anything. They either forget He brought Lazarus and others back from the dead, or they don't realize that He can just as much bring a dead marriage to life.
Too many people are just inviting God to their wedding ceremony. They aren't making Him the center of their marriage. The glue that binds them together and keeps them together, working perfectly, as they are meant to. And they also either don't remember He's also The Greatest Physician, The Greatest Counselor, or they don't believe their marriage is just as much something that in His eyes, is considered sick, and in need of His counsel, His healing touch, the medicine of His love, and His wisdom, His guidance. So instead of turning to Him to bring their marriage back to life, to save it, to make it good, they look at only what is possible in their human condition, they look only at the problems, the damages, the losses, and they let their thoughts and emotions lead them, instead of God. If they would realize that some things we can't do, and to let go, and give it to God to handle, and have faith, trust in Him, be patient, wait on Him, they would see transformations so miraculous, they would know for certain it was all God, and they would not only Praise Him, they would have a testimony so profound, to share with others, especially the lost, that not only is their God very much real, He is also as His word says, all powerful - nothing is impossible with Him. NOTHING.
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