1. 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

2. Marriage Remarriage?

3. Apostolic Teaching And Application Married Married o Bound or ?

4. For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives HUSBANDWIFE 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

5. For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives HUSBANDWIFE bound by law 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? released from the law Romans 7:2-3

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

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

8. Married or Bound? Apostolic Teaching And Application Romans 7:1-6; Pauls example of death to law

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

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

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

12. 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… HUSBANDWIFE joined to his wife One Who Has Never Been Married Who Can Marry? MALE FEMALE never married Marriage is honorable among all… if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry if a virgin marries, she has not sinned

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

14. 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 HUSBANDWIFE bound by the law But if her husband dies, she is at liberty Who Can Marry? MAN to be married to whom she wishes… released from the law One Whose Mate Has Died at liberty

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

16. 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 Whoever divorces his wife Who Can Marry? HUSBANDWIFE God has joined together and marries another commits adultery [general rule] WOMAN ADULTERY divorces his wife One Who Divorces For Fornication

17. 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 Whoever divorces his wife Who Can Marry? except for sexual immorality HUSBANDWIFE God has joined together MAN and marries another commits adultery [exception case] WOMAN NOT ADULTERY SEXUAL IMMORALITY divorces his wife One Who Divorces For Fornication WIFE God has joined

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

26. Sexual Immorality [Fornication] {noun}: - porneia (26x): 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?

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

28. Questions And Consequences Married or Bound? Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Sexual immorality [also called fornication] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are sexual immorality and adultery? 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

29. What is Sexual Immorality? 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 Typically describes unlawful sex of the unmarried (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.

30. Questions And Consequences Married or Bound? Who can marry? [a scriptural right] Sexual immorality [also called fornication] Who cannot marry? [no scriptural right] What are sexual immorality and adultery? 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]

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

32. To commit Adultery {verb}: - moicheuo (22x): 1) to commit adultery a) to be an adulterer b) to commit adultery with, to have unlawful intercourse with anothers wife c) of the wife: to suffer adultery, to be debauched d) a Hebrew idiom, the word is used of those who, at a womans 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?

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

34. What is Adultery? Adultery {noun}: - moichalis (7x): 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

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

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

37. Sexual Immorality and Adultery Adultery Bestiality Pre- marital sex Sexual Immorality [Fornication]

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

39. 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?

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

41. 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!

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

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

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