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<description><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">1. Pastor, do you think I am wrong for advising my son not to give up on his wife. My son found out that she was having internet sex and he is hurting?</span></strong></p>
<p><em>Please tell him, being hurt is not an excuse for giving up on your wife.&nbsp; She is&nbsp;his covenantal wife.&nbsp; This means&nbsp;she and he are in a covenant before God that is not easily broken.</em></p>
<p><em>If I was advising your son, I would share with him that marriage has a bigger scope than just being happy.&nbsp; Marriage between one man and one woman is to bring God glory.&nbsp;Mark 10:4-9 &nbsp;<sup>4</sup> And they said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away."&nbsp; <sup>5</sup> But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.&nbsp; <sup>6</sup> "But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.&nbsp; <sup>7</sup> "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother,&nbsp; <sup>8</sup> and the two shall become one flesh; consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh.&nbsp; <sup>9</sup> "What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."</em></p>
<p><em>Within mankind, there has always been&nbsp;the desire to hurt someone when you&nbsp;have been&nbsp;hurt.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, a mature believer in&nbsp;Jesus Christ will seek restoration instead of separation within the relationship.&nbsp;&nbsp;Someone may advise him that it is his right to dissolve the marriage because of&nbsp;passages like Matthew 19:9 &nbsp;<sup>9</sup> "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." </em><em>Yes, he may have the right&nbsp;but that would not be God's choice.&nbsp; God has already forgiven your son for things he has done and He will continue to do so.&nbsp; We are more like God in our character when we forgive.&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>Please share with your son&nbsp;that it is not over unless he says it is over.&nbsp; God does not want it to be over.&nbsp; So let me share with you the steps to restoration.&nbsp;&nbsp;First,&nbsp;confront the offender, then forgive.&nbsp; So he needs to confront the situation with the idea that&nbsp;God wants this relationship to stay together and get stronger.&nbsp; He must understand that&nbsp;if she confesses the sin, then it is his responsbility&nbsp;to forgive.&nbsp; Forgiveness is a choice.&nbsp; To forgive is a promise he will give to her that he has removed all of the blame, and that he will not seek revenge or retaliation.&nbsp; Luke 17:3-5 &nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>3</sup> "Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.&nbsp; <sup>4</sup> "And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him."&nbsp; <sup>5</sup>&nbsp;&para; And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" Matthew 6:11-15 &nbsp;<sup>11</sup> 'Give us this day our daily bread.&nbsp; <sup>12</sup> 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.&nbsp; <sup>13</sup> 'And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.'&nbsp; <sup>14</sup> "For if you forgive men for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.&nbsp; <sup>15</sup> "But if you do not forgive men, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>He must&nbsp;understand that&nbsp;no one wakes up and says that they are going to have an affair today.&nbsp; There&nbsp;had to have been&nbsp;a break down in the relationship long before the affair.&nbsp; Ask your son if he is willing to get counseling.&nbsp; I know where he can get biblical counseling and it will not cost him one dime.&nbsp;</em></p>]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2. Pastor, is it okay for me to maintain a friendship with another male that I once had a sexual relationship with and my husband doesn't know anything about it? He is a good friend and I want to stay close to him as a friend only.</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is not okay for you to maintain a friendship with any past lover.&nbsp; You will always find some imperfection in your present mate just by comparison.&nbsp; Our imagination will always find perfect in our past involvements while we face imperfections in our present reality.&nbsp; When the people came out of </span></em><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Egypt </span></st1:place></st1:country-region><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">they always wanted to go back as they faced hard reality of there present wilderness journey.&nbsp; All they chose to remember was the&nbsp;meats and watermelon.&nbsp; And what they chose to forget was all the beatings of their hard taskmaster.&nbsp; You will never put the energy into your present relationship when you are always&nbsp;looking back.&nbsp; This person is deep into your life&nbsp;and the further you get away from them, the more freedom you will have to love the imperfect gift God has given to you in&nbsp;your husband.&nbsp; </span></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 Corinthians 6:15-20 </span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;<sup>15</sup> Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? May it never be!&nbsp; <sup>16</sup> Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For He says, "The two will become one flesh."&nbsp; <sup>17</sup> But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.&nbsp; </span></em><strong><i><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">18</span></sup></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp; <sup>19</sup> Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?&nbsp; <sup>20</sup> For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">You may be still having an affair with this person in your mind and not know it.&nbsp; The bible says we must flee immorality.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Matthew 5:27-28 </span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;<sup>27</sup>&nbsp;&para; "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery';&nbsp; <sup>28</sup> but I say to you, that everyone who looks on a woman (or Man) to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.&nbsp;</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">If this is the case, ask God to forgive you 1 John 1:9 and He will because that sin&nbsp;has already been paid for by the death of Jesus Christ.&nbsp; Go and sin no more.&nbsp; God wants you to be madly in love with your mate as He is in love with the other members of the Trinity.&nbsp; God wants you to spiritually grow and be just like him.&nbsp; </span></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Matthew 5:48 </span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;<sup>48</sup> "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.&nbsp; </span></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 Peter 1:14-16 </span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;<sup>14</sup> As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,&nbsp; <sup>15</sup> but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;&nbsp; <sup>16</sup> because it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">3. Pastor, God never said to obey in marriage,&nbsp;then why is it in the wedding vows?</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Bible is written by God.&nbsp;&nbsp;Wedding vows are of course written by men and are influenced by their interpretation of what they think God meant by what He said in the Bible.&nbsp; Wedding vows with the word &ldquo;obey&rdquo; in them, may be a misintepretation of the Biblical principal, &ldquo;be in subjection&rdquo; or &ldquo;subject your self under your husband&rdquo;.&nbsp; The word hupotasso does not mean obey, it means "rank yourself under".&nbsp; The word is a military word which means to line up under.</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;<sup>NAS </sup></span></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Colossians 3:18</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;&para; Wives, be subject (Hupotasso) to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;<sup>NAS </sup></span></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Colossians 3:20</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Children, be obedient (Hupakouete) to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;<sup>NAS </sup></span></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Colossians 3:22</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Slaves, in all things obey (Hupakouete) those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;When it comes to wedding vows, the wife is told to be subject to your <span style="text-decoration: underline;">own</span> husband.&nbsp; When it comes to slaves&nbsp;and Children, the word means to to&nbsp;obey for example &nbsp;"obey your father and mother, and slave obey your master."</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>]]></description>
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