22/03/2025
HOLINESS REVIVAL MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE HOREMOW
DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR
DATE: SATURDAY MARCH 22, 2025
TOPIC: ONLY FORNICATION CAN SEPARATE MARRIAGE
TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 24:1-4
1. When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
3. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4. Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
KEY VERSE: ROMANS 7:2 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.
In the New Testament, there is no chance for divorce. Divorce and remarriage is only allowed in the case of fornication and not adultery, because someone who is already married does not commit fornication but adultery. The Bible gives an account of a woman who was caught in adultery, and they brought her to Jesus.
They said, “Moses commanded that we should stone her with stones until she dies.” It is even above divorce. And Jesus said, “He that is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone at her. You caught her in adultery; where is the man she committed the act with? You caught the woman and did not bring the man?”
Because they knew their lives, they were convicted of their lies, anger, and malice. “I do not condemn your marriage, go back to your marriage, only do not sin again. I do not condemn you. Go and serve God and do not commit sin again. I have given you the power of righteousness. Go and live a righteous life.” So, do not say you divorced a woman because she committed adultery. No. What is adultery? Jesus said, he that is without sin among you, meaning adultery is like any other sin.
If you would divorce a woman for adultery, then you can divorce her for taking alcohol, for telling lies, for smoking, for being an angry woman, or for being a witch. Many people will choose a woman who commits adultery rather than a woman who is a witch. If you cannot divorce her for being a witch, why should you divorce her for being an adulteress?
No sin qualifies to cancel the marriage, except for fornication, which is between the unmarried. Maybe, when engaged, the example of Joseph with Mary his espoused wife, that is, engaged wife. If after your marriage you discovered that she is a man's wife, what sin are you committing with her? Fornication. Release that woman to go, so that the fornication can stop.
Thought For The Day: Adultery is like any other sin, so cannot cancel marriage
Song For The Day: Jesus the way, the truth and the life, whosoever cometh to Him
Bible Reading For The Day: 1 Samuel 1-3