*** Comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

 

As we study the Bible the Holy Spirit takes us from scripture to scripture, comparing spiritual things with spiritual, rightly dividing the Word of God.

I Corinthians 2:12-14

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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If we consider only one scripture on the subject, we might deceive ourselves.

For example:  concerning divorce and remarriage

Matthew 5:32  Jesus says:  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

The only time in NT Bible a man is permitted to divorce his wife and marry another is if his wife is "unfaithful".

Some might look at this scripture in a superficial way and think the woman can divorce an unfaithful husband and marry another man.

But you must consider what Paul says is "a commandment of the Lord" in I Corinthians 7:10-11.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

And in Matthew 5:32, note that if the man divorces the faithful wife and she remarries she will commit adultery and he will be the cause of her adultery.  And the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

We must also consider Mark 10 concerning what Jesus said about divorce and remarriage.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

One flesh is a very serious matter.  Can a divorce paper from a court of man separate the two after they have been made by God to be one flesh?"

Other examples on this Podcast of comparing spiritual with spiritual by the Holy Spirit.

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