Marriage Sanctity, and Ministry? A Question.

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Permalink Reply by trudyrudy on March 29, 2009 at 9:21am

Julia I can understand, as a woman and a wife going through a separation, I don't understand it. The rate of divorce is increasing, and the reasons are stupid. There's 2 pastors on TV that I can think of right now that have been through a divorce, one has remarried, the other isn't, he's still praying that his wife comes back. I'm praying for a restoration of marriages around the world. Including mine.

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Permalink Reply by keith on March 30, 2009 at 3:42am

Hi Julia

I madea terrible mistake. I got married to a so called internet pastor in the states. I moved from the Uk to the USA.. the marriage broke up as there were problems.. she had been married 3 times before.. me never.. now going through a divorce.. the Lord wants me to be celibate and for HIM to be enough for Me.. God never told me to get married or move.. it was my disobedience

keith

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Permalink Reply by EDWARD KING on April 21, 2009 at 10:44am

"Something just seems off..." — Julia Marie

Something is indeed off. Something has been off for a long time... JESUS set the record straight but CAESAR maintained his position in spite of all that JESUS said. The WORD says that for a lack of knowledge that GOD's people are destroyed. NOTICE... It is GOD's PEOPLE that are destroyed. (HOSEA 4:6) Hold fast and prepare for the second coming. It's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. For as long as people continue to live in denial of GOD and what GOD called MARRIAGE FROM THE BEGINNING things will not change. It will only get worse. "Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein." (JEREMIAH 6:16)

It is vital for the true worshiper to understand that MOST churches registered with the secular government promoting same sex marriage, gender egalitarianism, and divorcement for every and any cause do NOT want people to know the truth about what GOD called marriage. (GENESIS 2:24) (MATTHEW 19:5-6) (MARK 10:8) (1 CORINTHIANS 6:16) (EPHESIANS 5:31) BUT we are taught to believe that MARRIAGE is anything but what GOD called it and few and far between are the churches that teach it just the way the BIBLE declares it. There are even some here who live in denial of this truth. They seek to kill my ministry because the WORD has no place in them. The truth is not popular. The majority will ALWAYS despise the truth. Many are called but few are chosen. For this reason those who are chosen of GOD to address any subject concerning the FULLNESS of GOD's own truth will be persecuted. They will not be POPULAR. They will not win many friends or influence many people. They will be despised and hated of men. . . And women.

MARRIAGE isn't "one flesh" only now and then. MARRIAGE is ONE FLESH every time it happens. Some marriage is honourable. MOST marriage is not honourable. Every time I address this subject a considerable number are pricked in the hearts and some are moved to wrath. Even so I will declare the truth. The time is come for men of GOD to call a spade a spade. The time is come for men of GOD to MAN UP to what GOD called marriage and to take responsibility for their own thoughts, their own feelings, and their own actions! OH, it's so easy to fall upon one's knees in front of a televsion camera and declare, "I HAVE SINNED!" But already I am declared the ENEMY because I tell the truth. It is a sin to marry another man's wife! It is ADULTERY to marry another man's wife! BUT what is marriage? Most people don't even know the answer to this question. Is it any wonder why so many today are so LOST? To MARRY (verb) is to join in the flesh with a member of opposite gender. (And I am certain that some reading just this will take offence.) RINGS and VOWS and PAPER WRIT do NOT a MARRIAGE make! BUT GOD called it ONE FLESH. It does not cease to be ONE FLESH because someone marries the wrong person, or because someone marries a bad person, or because someone chose not to marry a spouse. OH NO! 1 CORINTHIANS 6:16 sets the record straight! MATTHEW 19:9, the words of JESUS, PROVE it is possible to marry someone who is ALREADY married. . . But the media, the partial truth pastors and preachers, and all who make covenants with the god of this world, have conditioned the MASSES to believe a lie.

EQUITY left the seat of judgment when the magistrates cast the BIBLE out of the courtroom, endorsing legaized murder of the unborn, same sex marriage, and divorcement for every and any cause. Sound familiar? The televangelists and the popular preachers who prosper in the ways of MAMMON do not have the truth. Wherefore we witness these sons and daughters of BELIAL falling upon their own swords one after the other. And still the people of GOD fail to take heed, they are caught in the snare and are fallen into the pit. They are caught in the MARRIAGE TRAP and have embraced the lie to their own destruction. Now I apologise if I am being "NEGATIVE" and if my words seem 'UNLOVING". The truth is, if I did not love my brother and sister I would not be expending the energy to even bother to type this. I HAVE A LIFE. For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
(1 CORINTHIANS 9:16) If people truly understood what marriage was they would be far more LIBERATED in the truth than they are presently. For over 17 centuries Christendom has embraced the BABYLONIAN/ROMAN doctrines pertaining to marriage and these lies are still being preached from the pulpits of churches unto this day. They are become entrenched in our traditions, our cultures, and in the commandments of men but none of it is sanctioned by our LORD and SAVIOUR.

There is no need to marvel at how fragile our families have become. There has been a war going on against the families of true worshipers from the beginning and now it is become FULL BLOWN. This war is ancient. When the preachers and pastors finally start teaching marriage precisely as it is laid out in the scripture without ADDING to the WORD or removing from it, I will listen to them; but I refuse to embrace PARTIAL TRUTH tempered with lies and steeped in the false doctrines of this present world as so many countless ministers of BELIAL do. As for me and my family, we will worship GOD.

I pray this helps you, Julia. I know what it is like to have my spirit rise up within me in protest to the horrendous abominations that we witness sweeping our nations because people have rejected the truth about marriage in the SIGHT of GOD. Hopefully my membership will not be terminated this time; but if it is, it will only be one more testimony to the truth. It is much easier to cast a man out of the temple for teaching the truth than it is to refute him. The truth is not so easily refuted. GOD called marriage ONE FLESH and there are no exceptions to the exception. Anything else is an abomination.

GOD BLESS YOU

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Permalink Reply by EDWARD KING on June 19, 2009 at 4:18pm

What I have learned concerning the "loosed" or apolouo of whom the Apostle Paul specifically addressed in the scripture (1 Corinthians Seven) is that they should not marry if they are not called of GOD to do so, and that in the event that they decide to marry that they should marry "only in the Lord". I would go so far as to say that this advice should apply to all members in the Body of Christ. It would be suicidal for a Christian to marry outside of the faith. That said, I do not necessarily consider it a sin to "re-marry" as the majority of Christians, I find, do not even know what marriage is anyway, after having been conditioned to believe many lies. The loosed, the widowed, and the virgins are all considered "unmarried" in the scripture. Paul says that if they marry they have not sinned. Needless to say, there is a considerable difference between being "loosed" and being "put away". Of course, Paul is addressing the church concerning these matters seeing that the dead are already dead in their sin and would do well to seek first the Kingdom. To be truly loosed means to be free of bondage. Paul also stated that if the UNBELIEVING spouse departs that a sister or a brother is to "let them depart", further adding that a brother or a sister is "not under bondage" in such cases. If they are not under bondage it should also stand to reason that they are LOOSED and therefore free to marry... BUT ONLY IN THE LORD.

GOD BLESS YOU

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Permalink Reply by EDWARD KING on September 30, 2009 at 8:00pm

Keith, your first clue should have been the fact that she called herself a pastor. A woman can be many things in the Body of Christ but she can never be a pastor.

keith said:

Hi Julia

I madea terrible mistake. I got married to a so called internet pastor in the states. I moved from the Uk to the USA.. the marriage broke up as there were problems.. she had been married 3 times before.. me never.. now going through a divorce.. the Lord wants me to be celibate and for HIM to be enough for Me.. God never told me to get married or move.. it was my disobedience

keith

keith

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Permalink Reply by Bible Study Space on October 1, 2009 at 1:48pm

I am more worry about what they are teachings, not there sex life. After seeing most of the over eating Pastors, I would not listen to them anyway. 75% of them need a 40 day fast, and the women they marry, well Im not going there. Paul said, it is better to be alone, and not to marry. That I understand

How are you doing
Frank

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Permalink Reply by EDWARD KING on October 5, 2009 at 4:16am

Oh, you're going to go there with me... GOD bless you! :0)

Obedience to GOD is our first and foremost duty to Him. Without obedience to GOD it isn't even possible to be saved. If GOD requires that men should be pastors and that women are not to have authority over the brethren then we are to obey GOD. Fat women preach too. Let them preach to women and children if they wish. They are NOT to preach to men of GOD and the scripture plainly says so. People's sex lives are the LORD's business. You are right about that. Whoremongers and adulterers GOD will judge (says the scripture) and GOD's MORAL LAW does not change. Howbeit; an abomination in the Sight of GOD shall not be blessed and any who actively teach others to commit abomination and fornication will be anathema (accursed) says the scripture. It is good for a man not to touch a woman (says the scripture); but not all men can receive this saying save they to whom it is given, saith the Lord. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called, says the scripture and forbidding to marry is NOT from above. Paul also warned us about that.

I am well, my friend. I trust that things are well with you and your daughter also. The wife of my youth has recently taken it upon herself to serve me with divorce papers despite the fact that it is unlawful in the Sight of GOD for her to do so. Nonetheless, I have divorced no one and I continue to embrace the Promises of the Messiah and His Holy Word. I was recently blessed with yet another child (my fourth), Shiloh Grace King, and she is such a joy to me. My beloved Rachel (my younger wife) is enjoying motherhood a second time. Shiloh's birth was a miracle and the story was told on the CTV NATIONAL NEWS and all over newspapers throughout North America. GOD is good.

It is important for Christians to embrace the scripture in fullness, without excluding those things which pertain to sound doctrine. Taking scriptures out of their proper context can make a terrible mess of things and this is why today we have so many half-baked doctrines circulating throughout the churches. What is much more difficult to find in churches today is the FULL BIBLE TRUTH being preached. The Apostle Paul plainly stated, in the First Book of Corinthians, Chapter Seven:

"Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." (See verses 37 thru 39)

I have taken the liberty of underlining the words, "having no necessity" because this is the crux upon which the motive for marriage should be honoured in the Sight of GOD. Without necessity it is not necessary to marry. Without the necessity to marry there would be no people alive on the face of the earth! I verily believe that some are called in the Body of Christ to marry in the flesh; whereas others are not; for it is written in the same Chapter and in the same Letter to the Church of Corinth, by the same Apostle, "Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." (See verse 20) If you have the gift of celibacy then you are blessed indeeed; but if you marry in the knowledge of this gift you will only bring a curse upon your own head, having married without necessity and also having despised a gift from GOD. Likewise, those who were not called to celibacy and attempt to practice it against that necessity which GOD provided them that they should raise up seed unto the LORD, shall also suffer the consequences of their disobedience. We are all required to accept that providence from GOD wherein we have been so graciously provided. Each of us has our cross to bear and we must all bear it to the glory and honour of the most high GOD.

GOD BLESS YOU in the knowledge of full Bible truth

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Bible Study Space said:

I am more worry about what they are teachings, not there sex life. After seeing most of the over eating Pastors, I would not listen to them anyway. 75% of them need a 40 day fast, and the women they marry, well Im not going there. Paul said, it is better to be alone, and not to marry. That I understand

How are you doing
Frank

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Permalink Reply by Center † Mark Ministries, Inc. on November 30, 2009 at 3:58pm

I too was divorced as a non-christian. That was 13 years ago. I like Keith stayed single, celibate and in love with the LORD! I am now a newly-wed and this man was truly God-Sent and the degree and intensity of the devotion to each other is a fruit of waiting for the man that I was fashioned from, ie. the host that gave his rib for me. Now the worship, love and true steadfast devotion to the LORD has gone to a supernatural level and is so much more glorious as you worship Him now as one! I waited, and if this man would not have come into my life I would remain single and celibate until Christ came to get me!

What most say these days is that God is the One separating either of the spouses that are not fully devoted to Him or to the call upon their lives. I do not feel that this is so, I feel at times some are just ready for a new change and they are using the end times revival and the LORD as a scapegoat....

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