For the woman who has a husband is

“‘For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. ” Romans 7: 2

Marriage Remarriage?

Apostolic Teaching And Application Married ≠ or o Bound ?

Married or Bound? Romans 7: 2 -3 “For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives” HUSBAND WIFE “bound by law” “Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate” This is the “Normal” situation: MARRIED AND BOUND

Married or Bound? Romans 7: 2 -3 “For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives” HUSBAND WIFE “released fromlaw” “bound by the “But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband” This is a “Natural” situation: UNMARRIED AND UNBOUND

Married or Bound? Romans 7: 2 -3 “For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives” ADULTERESS HUSBAND WIFE “bound by law” MAN “if, while her husband lives she marries another man” “she will be called an adulteress” MARRIED to another man, BUT BOUND to her husband!

Married or Bound? Romans 7: 2 -3 “For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives” NO ADULTERESS HUSBAND WIFE MAN “free from that law”law)” “bound by law” “(bound by “But if her husband dies, she is free from that law” “so that she is no adulteress, though she has married” MARRIED AND BOUND to her second husband

Apostolic Teaching And Application Romans 7: 1 -6; Paul’s example of death to law Married or Bound?

Married or Bound? 1 Cor. 7: 39 “A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives” HUSBAND WIFE MAN “bound by law” “at liberty” “But if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes…” MARRIED AND BOUND to her second husband

Apostolic Teaching And Application Romans 7: 1 -6; Paul’s example of death to law 1 Cor. 7: 39; Paul’s exhortation to sobriety Married or Bound?

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] • Someone who has never been married Married or Bound?

Who Can Marry? “He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female, ’ and said, ‘for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife…’” MALE HUSBAND WIFE FEMALE One Who Has Never Been Married “never married” “joined to his wife” “never married” “Marriage is honorable among all…” “if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry” “if a virgin marries, she has not sinned”

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] • Someone who has never been married • Someone whose mate has died Married or Bound?

Who Can Marry? “For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband” One HUSBAND Mate WIFE MAN Whose Has Died “released liberty”law” “bound by the law” “at from the “But if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes…”

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] • Someone who has never been married • Someone whose mate has died • Someone who divorces a mate fornication Married or Bound?

Who Can Marry? “For this reason a man shall leave…and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. …Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate” LTERY ADU HUSBAND WIFE One Who Divorces Fornication “divorces his wife” WOMAN “God has joined together” “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery” [general rule]

Who Can Marry? “For this reason a man shall leave…and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. …Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate” RY ULTE AD SEXU AL IM MOR ALIT HUSBAND WIFE Y “God has joined together” WOMAN as joi“divorces his wife” WIFE MAN ned” od h “G “Whoever divorces his wife except for sexual immorality and marries another commits adultery” [exception case] NOT One Who Divorces Fornication

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] • Someone who has never been married • Someone whose mate has died • Someone who divorces a mate fornication • Someone who is reconciling Married or Bound?

Who Can Marry? “A wife is not to depart from her husband. But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. ” HUSBAND WIFE One “if“not to depart” Whodoesjoined” “God Is Reconciling she has depart” “A wife is not to depart from her husband” “But even if she does depart…” [sin] “…let her remain unmarried” [concession] or be reconciled to her husband” [remarry]

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] • Someone who has been “put away” Married or Bound?

Who Cannot Marry? “Whoever marries her who is divorced…” “Fell out of love” “Burned the dinner” “Irreconcilable. Away” Differences” Has Been “Put Mate divorced to marry other “SEXUAL IMMORALITY” Any other reason… Was One Who “Put Away” For: “…commits adultery”

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] • Someone who has been “put away” • Someone who “puts away” not fornication Married or Bound?

Who Cannot Marry? “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another…” “If a woman divorces her husband marries another…” “Fell out of love” “Burned the dinner” One Who “Puts Away” Not Fornication “Irreconcilable Differences” Divorcing to marry another Any other reason… “Puts Away” For: “…commits adultery” “…Except For Sexual Immorality…”

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] • Someone who has been “put away” • Someone who “puts away” not fornication ! Commits Adultery ! Married or Bound?

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] ü Greek [2 words] – “porneia”, “porneuo” Married or Bound?

What is “Sexual Immorality”? “Sexual Immorality” [“Fornication”] {noun}: - porneia (26 x): 1) illicit sexual intercourse (in general) a) adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, etc. (pedophilia) b) sexual intercourse with close relatives; Leviticus 18 c) sexual intercourse with a divorced man or woman; Mark 10: 11 -12 2) by metaphor, the worship of idols a) of the defilement of idolatry, as by the eating of sacrifices offered to idols see also: “unchastity”, “marital infidelity”, “adultery”, “prostitution”

What is “Sexual Immorality”? “To commit Sexual Immorality” [“Fornication”] {verb}: - porneuo (8 x): 1) to prostitute one’s body to the lust of another 2) to give one’s self to unlawful sexual intercourse a) to commit fornication 3) by metaphor, to be given to idolatry, to worship idols a) to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] ü Greek [2 words] – “porneia”, “porneuo” − Very broad use; any unlawful sex, including adultery − Typically describes unlawful sex of the unmarried • consider 1 Corinthians 7: 1 -9 Married or Bound?

What is “Sexual Immorality”? − Typically describes unlawful sex of the unmarried 1 Corinthians 7: 1 -9 (2) “…because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. ” … (8) “But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; ” (9) “but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry…” see also: Mt 15: 19; Mk 7: 21; Jn 8: 41; Ac 15: 20, 29; 1 Cor 6: 13, 18; Gal 5: 19; Eph 5: 3; etc.

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] ü Greek – “porneia” − Very broad; any unlawful sex, including adultery − Typically describes unlawful sex of the unmarried − Also describes unlawful sex with a bound person • consider: Matt 5: 32; 19: 9; Rom 7: 1 -3; 1 Cor 5: 1; etc. − Is only reason Jesus allows for divorce [Mt 5: 32; 19: 9] Married or Bound?

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] • “Adultery” ü Greek [4 words] – “moicheuo”, “moichao”, “moicheia”, “moichalis” Married or Bound?

What is “Adultery”? “To commit Adultery” {verb}: - moicheuo (22 x): 1) to commit adultery a) to be an adulterer b) to commit adultery with, to have unlawful intercourse with another’s wife c) of the wife: to suffer adultery, to be debauched d) a Hebrew idiom, the word is used of those who, at a woman’s solicitation are drawn away to idolatry, i. e. to the eating of things sacrificed to idols see Mt 5: 27 -28; 19: 18; Mk 10: 19; Lk 16: 18; Rom 2: 22; etc.

What is “Adultery”? “To commit Adultery” {verb}: - moichao (7 x): 1) to have unlawful intercourse with another’s wife, to commit adultery with see Mt 5: 32; 19: 9; Mk 10: 11 -12 “Adultery” {noun}: - moicheia (3 x): 1) adultery see Mt 15: 19; Mk 7: 21; John 8: 3

What is “Adultery”? “Adultery” {noun}: - moichalis (7 x): 1) an adulteress 2) as the intimate alliance of God with the people of Israel was likened to marriage, those who relapse into idolatry are said to commit adultery or play the harlot a) figurative equivalent to faithless to God, unclean, apostate see Mt 12: 39; 16: 4; Mk 8: 38; Rom 7: 3; James 4: 4; 2 Pt 2: 14

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] • “Adultery” ü Greek [4 words] – “moichao”, “moicheuo”, “moicheia”, − Very narrow; unlawful sex involving a bound person “moichalis” • consider Romans 7: 1 -3; “if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she shall be…adulteress” Married or Bound?

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] • “Adultery” ü Greek [4 words] – “moichao”, “moicheuo”, “moicheia”, − Very narrow; unlawful sex involving a bound person “moichalis” − fr. latin adulterare [v]; “ad” - toward “alter” - other − adultery is always sexual immorality; not vice-versa Married or Bound?

“Sexual Immorality” and “Adultery” Premarital sex Adultery Bestiality “Sexual Immorality” [“Fornication”]

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] • “Adultery” ü Grk. - “moichao”, “moicheuo”, “moicheia”, “moichalis” ü “adultery” and Matthew 5: 27 -28, 31 -32 Married or Bound?

“Sexual Immorality” and “Adultery” Matthew 5: 27 -28, 31 -32 (27) “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery. ’ (28) “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ” … (31) “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce. ’ (32) “But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery. ” Since “lust” is “adultery”, is it scriptural to divorce?

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] • “Adultery” ü Grk. - “moichao”, “moicheuo”, “moicheia”, “moichalis” ü “adultery…in his heart”: Matthew 5: 27 -28, 31 -32 − “lust” = “adultery”, but “lust” ≠ “sexual immorality” • “adultery” is fig. ; cp. 5: 21 -22; 1 Jn. 3: 15 “murderer” • “porneia” to divorce, not “moicheia” (body vs. mind) Married or Bound?

“Sexual Immorality” and “Adultery” 1 Corinthians 6: 18 (18) “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Body vs. Mind Actions vs. Thoughts Matt. 5: 28: “adultery” in thought is only figurative; is not “sexual immorality”, not grounds for divorce!

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] • “Adultery” ü Grk. - “moichao”, “moicheuo”, “moicheia”, “moichalis” ü “adultery…in his heart”: Matthew 5: 27 -28, 31 -32 − “lust” = “adultery”, but “lust” ≠ “sexual immorality” − “adultery” here ≠ “sexual immorality”; no divorce! • sin of “lust” must be dealt with, but not by divorce Married or Bound?

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? • “Sexual immorality” [also called “fornication”] • “Adultery” ü Grk. - “moichao”, “moicheuo”, “moicheia”, “moichalis” ü “adultery…in his heart”: Matthew 5: 27 -28, 31 -32 − “lust” = “adultery”, but “lust” ≠ “sexual immorality” − “adultery” here ≠ “sexual immorality”; no divorce! − no divorce: flirting, pornography, internet “affair”, etc Married or Bound?

Questions And Consequences Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are “sexual immorality” and “adultery”? Next time: our continuing look at some questions and consequences of marriage and the bond Does “not under bondage” mean “free to marry”? Married or Bound?