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May 18, 2016 9:11 pm
Harvest messages are brought to you by harvest partners to receive free email daily devotions or to become a harvest partners, please visit us online@harvest.org. The title of my methods is how to divorce proof your marriage and by the way, this is the last message in the series that were doing called home sweet home not been married 42 years. That's maybe a little hard to wrap one's mind around what you notice.
We have this stage of care little table uses last week with Kathy. We also have a record player up here and on the top of the stack. Here's a record you see what this says Star Wars. I've been married already a few years. When this came out the first time so that gives you an idea of how luckily for Mary to get the little album later on the bed. I'm your father Luke so that's how long it's been. You know when I but here's the amazing thing. I still remember vividly like a video loop in my mind Kathy walking down the aisle. She didn't really look all that different than she looks. Now, as a matter of fact she was a vision and why I look like one of the guys from Duck Dynasty, you know, but underneath that she could see that underneath all of that here was a bald man and that's pretty much what she got what you know when you stop and think about marriage after we see, I do, there's a lot more to be done any of the think you're done you're finished.
It's been said that love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock running one of the problems is what we see marriages start to unravel. It isn't usually overnight its over a period of time when there is neglect just like your garden if you neglect your garden grow over with weeds. If you don't take care of your body, your sin that I have problems and if you neglect your marriage it will slowly slowly but surely die a one comedian said, quote the secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Is that true though, or are there actual secrets in the Bible.
Why believe they are. There are that's what we've been talking about in this series home sweet home. But I also think there are things that are threats to our marriage and I would like to identify some of those in this message. How to divorce proof your marriage and of the Bible says in the song of Solomon chapter 2 verse 15. It's the little boxes that spoil the vine. It's always little things left neglected that ultimately turn into big things that can ultimately be become destructive things in your marriage.
So what are some of the threats against our marriage today. Number one and have already talked about this a little bit but I want to come back to it. I think the number one threat against her marriages simply selfishness.
If you were to sum up, why people of marital problems. It would be because of selfishness. If you were to pick one word to describe why a marriage ultimately fall apart again. It would be selfishness because we going to a marriage honestly thinking that it's all about us and that person is going to meet all of our needs and we never stop and think maybe the problem is me and James for two we read these words what you think what you think all these appalling wars and corals come from. You think they just happen. Think again they come about because you want your own way and you fight for it deep inside of yourself, but it we want our own way. We want her to do what we want her to do and she wants the guy didn't do what she wants Kim to do and of course we live in a culture that's completely self absorbed my generation, the baby boomers were described as the me generation.
Another thing this new generation called the millennial is the me me generation out that even possible.
More self absorbed and we were and I think were partly responsible because of the whole inane self love movement self-esteem movement that gained popularity back in the 70s. We were told that the reason we have all the problems in our culture today is because we don't love ourselves enough and if we would learn to love ourselves more than that everything would go much better and so there was all this emphasis on self-image and self-love and so forth and didn't fix things though actually made things worse. One experts" the problem is that when people try to both self-esteem they boosted narcissism instead. All that self-esteem led people to be disappointed when the world refused to affirm how great they know they are you know so it's sort of the mentality of there's no losers. Everybody's a winner know there's losers like when I go to my grandchildren's games like soccer games are some of what this book were not keeping score, please really meant. Some guy deletes fortitude. You know, psyched to come out. We need to keep score. We need to give our grades. People succeed. People fail. That's true in life and that's also true in marriage and this started a long time ago in the Garden of Eden. The origins of sin and selfishness and a focus on ourselves are a result of the fall. After the fall event of Adam and Eve in the garden are three important because God said something to them that is often misunderstood. A verse that is not grasped in its original context.
After Adam and Eve fell into sin. The Lord said to Eve in Genesis 316. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
By the way, that's not a positive thing.
Remember, as a result of the fall and the curse now here is what God is saying. From this point on the your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. So don't ever use that as a proof text guys of you're trying to get order an outline should rule over you know that was an observation about the results of sin that would follow the choice about them and went away say that will interestingly the word desire as an your desire will be for your husband actually means to compel birds or seek control over you. It's the same word that is used in Genesis 47 when God worn, came, sin is crouching at your door desires to have you. That is control you but you must master it got nothing lip-synching sin. Once the master you.
You must master sin. So coming back to the work. Your desire read will be for your husband. In other words, God missing from this point on your wanting you're going to want to control your husband and then when God said to Adam, and you will rule over heard them also was a word that actually was unique and representative authoritarianism that was not in God's original plan. This is not the servant leadership that the husband should be displaying but rather, it's a guy wanting to dominate a woman so you could effectively say the battle of the sexes began in the garden male chauvinism and women's liberation. If you will started there in the garden. Women have a sinful inclination to control men.
Men have a sinful inclination to control women and neither of those is God's original plans about the origin of all of this. It's selfishness. But we don't need to love ourselves. We arty do love ourselves you love yourself I love myself. And so in the Bible says love your neighbor as yourself for something. Learn to love yourself person. Love your neighbor says hey in the original Greek God is implied you already love your self so love your neighbor that much at least that of course in Ephesians 528 husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves him self so it's not that we need to love herself, it's that we need to love someone else more than we love ourselves, or at least as much as we love ourselves. In Philippians tells us, don't be selfish. Instead, be thinking of others is better then your self.
Don't think about your own affairs will be interested in others so one of the primary threats against marriage. Today is selfishness and the antidote to selfishness is self less, there's another threat against our marriages communication breakdown communication breakdown in a survey that was taken among divorced couples, they were asked why did your marriage fail 86% said efficient communication highly. Men and women.
We are so different from each other the way we even communicate.
You know you know God, you look in a conversation between a man and a woman, a guy will stop in the say you know what you want to go out for dinner in Chelsea will want to go to this place and you want to start learning how to read between the lines, with women just last night my wife was saying I want to go to dinner is a great we want to go. She said you decide is a good list will get sushi I want sushi okay go to that place, it has those really great burgers and not the one hamburger. Okay, let's go over to this other place, and you know I don't want to go there while let's go to the Mexican yeah that's what I want to go. Why did you just say that in the first place. You know she told me to choose but ultimately she she had her will. I mean it's sort of like you know when a Amana wiper talking to different things are heard. She says let's stop and ask for direction and he heard her say you're an idiot. You don't know where you're going or not even a man she says can I have the remote control and heaters are safe. Let's watch something that will bore you beyond belief. I can't believe some of the things Kathy wants to watch site were complete opposites in every way. She says I like to redecorate.
Heaters are safe. Let's take a whole bunch of money and just flush it down the toilet. Just like that. She says you know you need to get in touch with your feelings he hears her say blah blah blah blah. She says are you listening heaters are safe.
Blah blah blah blah. Jasso. This is part of the problem. Communication look, you can have conflicts in marriage you can have disagreements.
So you have to learn how to have a fair fight. You have to learn and I don't mean coming to fisticuffs. I'm talking about a disagreement. You have to learn how to disagree agreeably that ultimately find some kind of solution and resolution that I believe the guy should be the one that takes point in that. So you have to learn how to listen. What is it that is the problem exactly occasional guy will us to grow his wife. In particular, what's wrong to think nothing but you know something's wrong so you don't accept that answer you're going to have to take some time and find out. Listen to her understand what she's saying listen to him understand what he is saying and never let it get elevated to shouting and screaming about the Bible tells us get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words and slander and instead forgive one another. So don't elevated tone escalated de-escalated resolve it and then once he just said their piece. Now it's time to forgive one another and again, as the Scripture says let not the sun go down on your wrath. Listen to this fight to resolve not to win. If you going to do disagreement to when you've already lost. Here's 1/3 threat against marriages and this is a big one. Adultery. Adultery is such a big deal in May God's top 10 and saddling every one of us listening to this message knows at least one couple if not more that have had their marriage devastated by adultery. How many marriages would still be together today.
If this one sin was not committed just if America alone stop committing the sin for a year with changed the face of our nation. How many families would still be together. How many people would still be loving each other and then this is gets passed on from generation to generation. I heard about a young pastor was listening to a visiting evangelist in this church and the guy was speaking in and the evangelist said you know some of the happiest moments of my life have been spent in the arms of another man's wife is kind of a pause, and people are shocked and then the guy says and that about woman was my mother. Everyone laughs okay get another man's wife. You happy moments in his mom's arms and so the evangelist should be the young pastor said I gotta use outline so couple months past and he thought I would use it in the servings that you know some of the happiest moments of my life have been spent in the arms of another man's wife, and then he forgot the punchline. He said, and for the life of me I can't remember who she was. What I didn't go well letting go well, you know, unfaithfulness is one of the greatest threats against marriage today that Stella said 40 to 50% of all married men have at extramarital affairs and 70% of all married men under 40 expect to have an extramarital relations that scary so bunch of guys are just waiting for what they would see as an opportunity and does of this just gets worse and it's men, of course, but not women are catching up the numbers for women being unfaithful to their husbands is higher than ever. 1953, while one half of married men have been a people of the wives only 26% of the wives responded in kind. But today, while only 19% of married women knew their husbands cheated on them. 41% of the women cheated so that they're just going out and doing that as well. This is destroying the fabric of the family and God has warned us about this sin prescribed in 690 says don't you know the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God, nor the sexually immoral nor idolaters, nor adulterers, Solomon worn us about going to the house of the prostitute. The house of the rising Sun as it was memorialized in the song years ago.
Proverbs 724 listening, we might simply attention to my words.
Don't let your heart straight toward her. Don't wander down her wayward path. She's been the ruin of many numerous Minutemen are victims or houses the road to the grave or bedroom is the den of death or houses the road to the grave in her bedroom is the den of death and Jesus of course took this to another level. He said you heard that it has been said, you shall not commit adultery that I say unto you, if you look on a woman with lust in your heart. It's effectively the same thing by the way that Frazier Christ use looks on a woman in the original language could be translated continuously looking at a casual glance was continuously looking and not only that, but it speaks of intentional and repeated gazing so you know you're gonna see an attractive guy like right now I'm in the guide next year would not be, of course, if you see an attractive woman.
He got all attractive woman attractive guy that that's not the issue here. It's like when you see I'm not going to go looking for this and I'm not only illegal looking for this.
I'm in a go looking for this lustfully, I'm going out of my way to feed the flames of lost now in the old days you would have to go searching for a place to stimulate your lust, but nowadays it's only a mouse click away. Pornography of horses everywhere on the Internet. They estimate that the worldwide sex industry is around $57 billion verse 4.2 million porn sites and pornographic search engine request total 60 million per day. As I said, wickedness is just a mouse click away.
And of course the word pornography comes from the Greek word porn Mia and attention. Think about what is actually used a number of times in the New Testament we learned in first Corinthians 16.
Our bodies were not made for it. We should not seek it out either. According to first Corinthians 72 and finally first Corinthians 618. We should run of it run from it and then finally we should repent of it if we fallen prey to it. First Corinthians 1221 you need to run member. The story of Joseph and the original Kruger Potter first wife.
She was an older woman attractive, no doubt Lane lustful lies on the attractive, handsome, young Joseph and she was very upfront about her intentions.
She gets a day after day have sex with me any repel her advances in one day. She described them in: down on the bed and he did what any clear thinking red-blooded young men would do or should do under such circumstances, he ran and sometimes literally to simple as running the simplest hitting the off button. It's as simple as terminating a conversation and so you need to take this step because people to get into the trap of the poultry lose perspective and here's something we don't think about we call in an affair when a stupid word Dennis an affair something accrues or something, but really it's the worst thing you can do it.
Adultery and God told you not to go there but when a person is committed this act. It's not one time because when two people hook up and engage in this kind of a lifestyle. It's all about sex. It has nothing to do with love.
So it's gonna be many, many times it's going to be a lot of lying to cover up what they been doing so effectively. If you're a Christian, you go into a completely backslidden state of immorality and I've also found people that are found out in affairs. They say it was only wanted their liars are always liars, and you find out later it was and once it was many times and I wasn't one person.
It was more than one person. See, it's just scrap that gets worse and you don't ever want to go down that road again is it would become unknowable God forgive me. Yes, he will. God will forgive you if you fallen into the sin of adultery but your spouse may not forgive you quite this quickly nuzzle point out technically is grounds for divorce.
Hopefully that won't happen but it is a deal breaker. And even if it's been forgiven is a lot of time that needs to be taken for trust to be restored so we don't want to go down that road ever because it is a horrible destructive sin. And when you commit this sin. It's going to catch up with you. This is what people think about. I would be the exception and I'm in a get away with it now never be caught not true. You will be caught. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not five years from today, but ultimately the Bible says your sin will find you out if you were to go back and take a first of the original language in re-stated it would say, your sin will find you out next to what it means is your sin will find you out. By the way, Moses made that statement he knew a little bit about it member when he killed the Egyptian was beating a Hebrew, he looked to the right.
He looked to the left.
She looked up to God and he wouldn't of done it and then what is he do he hides the guy in the sand noted in a high someone that you just killed. Don't put them in the sand when the winds are blocking chest. It wasn't long until oh look a corpse in okay yeah so his sent down the mountain. That's the same way it's going to catch up with you eventually why is it such a bad thing to go down this road will number one you do incredible damage to yourself, you damage your self.
The Bible even says that when you enter into a sexual union with a prostitute. You effectively become one flesh with her so when you say was a one night stand, and it didn't mean anything. Actually, it means a lot. Also, you do incredible damage to your spouse, you damage that one. They should damage them bond. It's a devastating sin. Thirdly, you do incredible damage to your children to find out. Maybe their young and they don't know at first but later though it figured out, someone will tell them and so often the sins of parents are repeated by children. The Bible speaks of the sins of the parents being visited on the children. That's not a description of some mystical generational curse. Rather, what that's what that is saying is, your kids will end up doing what you do and we see this happening in the life of King David. Remember he fell into adultery with Bathsheba and his own children repeated his behavior.
David son M then raped his half-sister team are and Absalom murdered Amnon as the prophet Nathan said to David, the sword will never depart from your house.
There's another thing when you commit the sin of adultery. You do great damage to the church. The Scripture says one. One member suffers a whole body suffers were all interconnected as believers when one of us is exalted were all exalted when one of us falls we all are affected by it, and a lot of times we will think about this, but there's your testimony to a lost world. You told him all about your faith in Christ and how much you love your spouse and then you go and commit this and lastly you do great damage to the cause of Christ. After David fell into sin with Bathsheba, the prophet Nathan said because you've done that you given great opportunity for nonbelievers to blasting. Let's not give nonbelievers more ammo to use against us.
And of course the worst thing of all is you sin against the Lord himself coming back to Joseph.
I love the way that he resisted the wife of Potter for he said, how can I do this great sin against God that the greatest deterrent. Okay so that brings us to our text Matthew 19 and this is the most serious threat against the marriage today and that is divorce and the title of this message is how to divorce prove your marriage. Matthew 19 starting in verse seven they said to Jesus, why did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and the Porter away. He said of the Moses because of the hardness of your hearts permitted you notice a work permit. They use the word command uses the word permit he permitted you to divorce your wife from the beginning it was not so I say to you, whoever divorces his wife except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is the board's commits adultery. There note again that they said commended. Why did Moses command us to get a divorce and Jesus excuse me you never commanded.
He permitted because of the hardness of the callousness of your heart see to protect the woman from the hardship of endeavoring to carry on in a home where she was unloved and unwanted because the men didn't understand the high ideal of marriage clause was given a release clause in what is a release because I think there are two reasons in Scripture that you can use to say, we may have cause for divorce.
Most divorces I've seen could have been avoided. Most marriages that are having conflicts that I've seen could have been restored but because of selfishness a lot of communication in unwillingness to commit themselves they were unwilling to go through with that make the hard choices, but that there are these two options in the Bible.
Number one would be when immorality takes place back to verse nine of Matthew 19 anyone who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery is not to say of adultery is committed. Divorce is mandatory, or even recommended. Every effort should be made even if adultery is taken place to restore the marriage and examine the steps that led to dissent sin and apply some preventative measures because immorality is not only grounds are the vortex also grounds for forgiveness.
So there can be forgiveness and I've seen marriages survived this, but there's some guys and sometimes goes to.
Usually guys I have to be honest who are serial adulterers, I mean they just go from one thing to another thing to another thing that comes a point worldwide says I can't take it anymore and far be it for me to say no. You have to keep forgiving him forever. Another can come a point where you can say you know what you do have these grounds pray about it. I would love to see restoration in your marriage somehow what you actually do have a release clause given to you by Christ himself versus second reason for divorce. Her second legitimate point that you can make and that isn't desertion desertion. First Corinthians 713 says every Christian woman as a husband is an unbeliever and is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him.
First of all, this addresses the idea of being married to a nonbeliever in many people find themselves in the situation may be because they became a Christian after they were married to know you're married to this nonbelieving guy or maybe a non-leaving girl sometimes. Unfortunately, Christians will God and intentionally marry a nonbeliever in say well lead them to Christ. Well, maybe you will.
And there's a good chance you won't and then have you been married for a year or so using what I really made a mistake and I just met this really cute Christian guy at church and the Lord spoke to my heart and he said to me dump your heathen husband and bury the cute Christian God know God didn't say that. Why do you know God didn't say, because God said this first Corinthians 713 of a Christian woman as a husband who's an unbeliever, and is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him then it goes on in verse 15 of first Corinthians 7 and said first Corinthians 715 if the husband or wife who is in a Christian insists on leaving. Let them go. In such cases, the Christian husband or wife is not required to stay with them for God wants his children to live in peace. Okay, so here's how this works out. So you're married to some person will take a guy is an example any just as I'm leaving you any walks away. He moves out of the house he's living in another analyses even living with another woman and another house which are technically married still. So you're waiting in a month goes by and by, months go by in a year goes by and you're waiting in your being patient and then you say, are you ever going to come back he says no I'm never going to come back so some well-meaning Christian might take would just keep praying no peers of the Bible says you will release clause that you may want to keep praying, and you may want to hang in there and I have seen situations where that person came to their senses and by the way you note in the King James it says that the nonbelieving the parts I don't think this is really about. If they claim to be a Christian or not just any man that walks out and his wife effectively to me is behaving as a non-believer that the Bible even says if you don't provide for your family. You're worse than a non-believer so he may or she made to the point were seen this happen with women today. Now even walking out on their husbands in even their children.
And this is mind blowing to me why Greg are all sinners.
I don't know I just can't believe a mom-and-pop account and her children. We know guys are dogs and they been doing it for years, but a mother who bore the children to walk out on a bench is so shocking that that's the time were living in now. We sure of this thing happening. There comes a point where you can say they're not coming back and that versus God has called us to peace. And so you have grounds for divorce to a biblical grounds.
I never encourage divorce.
I think as I said most divorces can be avoided, but there are times when these release clauses can be utilized but that even when divorces happen. That's not the end, I received a letter from one of our listeners to our radio broadcast a new beginning cheeses dear Greg Villasenor program for 15 years.
I was struggling with the marriage that wasn't going very well. I've been married for 25 years.
What my husband and I got a divorce. However, I was a senior marriage series and I was able to grow and be change and she writes I learned to love my husband in a way I never knew possible. And now we are married again for the past five years.
So here was family broken. They got a divorce and they got remarried again. We need to divorce proof or marriages some years ago we had one of our famous wildfires herein Southern California and a lot of homes were burned in a very nice upscale neighborhood all these homes were devastated just all these foundations are reduced to charred rubble and in the midst of this track of beautiful homes stood all home arete almost in perfect condition. A little bit of smoke damage in the midst of all of these devastated burned down homes and so the press went on the what what on earth happened here in the interview this man and they said, why did your house not burn down his answer was, well, and I found this article fascinating, he says.
We went beyond that which was required and made it even safer.
Wanting to do.
In particular, yet double pain when those extra thick stucco walls sealed eaves concrete tile rope and abundant insulation. So when the firefighters came. They said that's over going make our stand working to defend this house and it did stand.
I would ask everybody listening to this message right now right at this moment to make a stand for their marriage and say I'm going to do everything I can to secure this marriage to keep it strong to keep it vibrant to go the extra mile. Not just give some token effort to go the extra mile to keep my marriage thriving. So periodically you gotta step back and ask yourself the hard questions like husbands, my loving my wife as Christ loves the church wives my respecting my husband and submitting to his servant leadership and for both my denying myself importing the needs of my mate above my own sort of asking the question, are there any flammable materials you have lying around in your relationship, you make your stand there you stop and ask yourself, is there any activity I'm engaged in that is putting distance between my mate and myself. Is there any relationship I have with any other person that is hurting this marriage. Why is this important because one day you're going to be old like me and before you know it lights can be coming to an end and you get to be sent in that rocking chair or in that retirement home or maybe on your deathbed and you can reflect back on your life and I'll tell you this much, when you look back upon across your life. The big accomplishments are not to be how much money you made, or how well known you were of those big accomplishments you can find are going to be your faith and your family and you can think about your children and perhaps her children and grandchildren and even great-grandchildren. And if you know on that day that you've been faithful to your spouse and you had a marriage that is lasted a lifetime you're going to be one happy person because the regrets always, when we've neglected these areas.
So let's take some preventative steps to keep our family strong. Here's a few closing points that were done number one walk with God. This is the greatest thing you can do even above. Keeping your marriage strong just walk with God. If you are walking closely with the Lord you will have this relationship with him and the resources you need to do what God is called to the because there is no way I can love my wife as Christ loves the church without help in filling of the Holy Spirit on a regular basis and there's definitely no way that Kathy can submit to my leadership without the help of the Holy Spirit. So we need God's help we need to walk closely in his presence. No David of course fell into sin with Bathsheba and I've mentioned him. It all started when there was a breakdown in this fellowship with the Lord.
No, David was known for his closeness to God's intimacy with God, but that was neglected and then other things began to crowd into his life.
So walk with God. Point number one. Point number two walk with your spouse. Walk with your spouse any literally walk with your spouse take walks together long leisurely walks but even more spent time developing friendship and romance don't grow complacent enjoying each other's company.
Spend time together break away from your schedule and do that. I was talking with Kathy recently in the series. Remember we talked together and as she said one of the things I did early on in her marriage that she didn't like. At the time was. I said we need to just take a little time off, just you and me because she didn't want to leave the kids and but I said no we need to do this now. She looks back on it and says I'm glad we did it and I would just periodically think we need a little break to shoot me let's go somewhere. Let's do something evening for date ledges you and me go. Let's put this stinking cell phones away and let's have a conversation together and talk together and be together and it doesn't have to be an exotic or nice place. Just maybe a different place in your normally in away from the pressures and demands of possible of your life and just enjoying each other's company. Number three.
Don't walk in the counsel of the ungodly, so walk with God.
Walk with your spouse don't walk in the counsel of the ungodly, the wise person of someone it says of him or her. Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, or stands in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful because the light is in the law of the Lord in in it. Does he meditate day and night.
Don't walk ungodly counsel. So needless to say this would speak of any kind of relationship with a member of the opposite sex, especially events done a little bit flirty. You know, here's a little word of advice.
Don't ever go to a member of the opposite sex for marital counseling and outgrow you work with having problems with my marriage. Can you counsel me are you an idiot. That's almost like an invitation hey let's see what happens now. If it's your mother it's okay you can talk to your mother or in a but I'm get my point.
Don't walk in the counsel of the ungodly, if you know people that sort of encourage and feebleness are encouraged illicit activity don't hang out with people like that and finally count the cost. Remember some of the warnings we brought up those along with an intense love for God and your spouse will see you through the rough waters of sexual temptation. I mean, pay attention. There's a cost you cross these lines in your marriage falls apart that that's a heavy cost to pay. You don't want to go down that road know someone might say will Greg I have gone down that road actually I have committed adultery or I am divorce.
What about me is life just over know it isn't because we serve a God who gives second chances. Think of the story.
That woman caught in the act of adultery. She was brought before a crowd of people who wanted to stoner Jesus looked around and said well let him that's without sin cast the first don't and the Bible says he wrote on the ground all men. I've always wanted to know what to the right on the ground didn't.
He was like just doodling down there something I think he was writing me because it says he� Let him that's without sin cast the first of many wrote on the ground and then he stood up and they started leaving from the oldest of these are spending probably with names Kayla maybe commandment number three that he broke or for five and six. Or maybe the word or something that the guy had done and they left it all that was left was this woman is this woman where your accusers.
She says I have to says neither do Y condemned the go and sin no more. But here's the key.
He says woman, where are your accusers, she said, Lord, I have none.
She is the word Lord so that woman who'd been caught in adultery.
Good sin. At that moment recognize Jesus Christ as Lord and he for gave her so far come to God and say Lord I failed to build on this marriage. I failed in this choice I filled in this other thing, and if you will turn from that sin he will forgive you of that. And here's your marching orders now go and sin no more. Don't go do it again. No, you can't change the past. Anymore than you can unscramble in a but you can start today to Sam would do the right thing from this moment forward.
Some of you listening to this message right now may not have a relationship with God. Maybe you've never asked Jesus Christ to come in your life to be your savior and Lord others. Others of you that have known the Lord for years, but you have a lap see you made a big mistake, you sin against God, and you need to get rid of the law. Get rid of that sin to get right with the Lord. It was David, after he sin, who said in Psalm 51 against the and the only have I said and done, this iniquity, and then David said restore to me the joy of my salvation. God wants to forgive you but you like that woman caught in the act of adultery need to acknowledge your sin and you need to acknowledge him as Lord, and you can be forgiven of everything you've done that is wrong and sinful before God. If you've never asked Christ to come in your life to be your Savior and Lord of you need to make a recommitment to him. You can do it right now. Let's all bow our heads and pray father I pray for any care watching this now that do not know you. Help them to come to you and believe in you and find your forgiveness that this moment is our heads of God and work praying together. If you've never asked Jesus Christ to come in your life you could just pray this prayer right where you are after me just pray this prayer Lord Jesus, I know I'm a center I need to know you in a real and personal way. I'm sorry for my sin.
I turn from it now that I choose to follow you.
While our pets are still valid. Maybe there's some believers here that need to make a recommitment to Jesus you know what's right but like King David. You've fallen into sin and you need to come back to him. You need to repent of a particular set. Maybe it's adultery maybe it's selfishness maybe it's something else. But whatever it is you see it's a problem and you want to bring it to the Lord now when it you pray this prayer with me Lord, I know it's right and I haven't been doing it and I want to repent and I want to change my behavior.
I want to go and sin no more.
So I recommit myself to you again now in Jesus name I pray they meant a bus