Consequences of Infidelity

The Bible calls infidelity a snare, a trap. When you get into a trap it is difficult to get out. The fear of eternal punishment often drives the unfaithful into denial, not repentance.

Many in the church have a very superficial view of the consequences of marital infidelity.

Nobody should go into infidelity without being willing to perish into eternal punishment and take children and loved ones along by example.

The Bible calls infidelity a snare, a trap. When you get into a trap it is difficult if not impossible to get out. Yet repentance and salvation are impossible without stopping the affair once and for all.

Divorce and Remarriage to Cover Infidelity
Some people feel they can end their marital obligations by getting a divorce quickly and remarrying their affair partners, and then they can just apologize to God and everything will be OK. But, Jesus pulls the covers off illicit divorces and remarries calling this unfaithfulness.

Surprisingly some pastors believe illegitimate marriages are morally binding and that Deuteronomy 24:1-4 forbids the unfaithful to end their second marriages and return to their first ones. Not so. Deuteronomy 24:1-4 does not speak to this situation at all. It speaks about a woman being send away with a letter of divorce by her husband. Is she remarries, her first husband cannot take her back.

John the Baptist spoke clearly in Mark 6:17-18 when he told Herod it was unlawful for him to have his brother's wife. Notice, that the scripture says Herod had already married his brother's wife. John did not tell Herod that the sinful deed had already been done and now this woman was now his wife. John continued to refer to her as Philip's wife instead and told Herod it was unlawful for him to have her.

So, unless Jesus and John the Baptist are both either deceitful or deceived, illegitimate marriages are not legitimate.

Are Two Divorces Worse Than One?

Some argue that two divorces are worse than one, but at the end of Ezra we find men commanded to divorce their wives after entering into marriages they had no right to enter into.

To defend the illegitimate marriage is to desecrate legitimate marriage. To suggest that the obligations of one promise can be removed by making a counter promise desecrates the meaning of promise. A divorce can never make the wedding vows unsaid, and a ceremony and a license cannot make a covenant breaker and honest person.

Pastors and Ministers Living in Unfaithfulness

Today, many churches invite unfaithful travelling ministers to preach to their congregations unaware of the spiritual poison they are injecting directly into the life blood of their congregations and the Christian community. No wonder many churches are so full of infidelity, dishonesty, hypocrisy, and immorality of the worst kind.

If we are not fighting hard to end unfaithfulness, renounce it, denounce it, then we are helping it spread into the next generation luring them straight into eternal ruin.

We need to remember the devil does not lure people into eternal punishment by scaring them away. He lures them into eternal punishment by drawing them in with comforts, with promises of pleasure, of relief, of wealth, of love, and anything that will work to draw people away from God.

The devil is a master of false religion and false comforts. As long as we only seek our own comfort and pleasure, the devil has nothing to worry about. That's why there are so many false ministers who promote sin, defend sin, and cheapen the Gospel with strategies to draw them into false repentance and false salvation.

Would you tell your neighbor who is burning down in his house not to worry or get out of the house before he is burned to death inside? Or would you comfort him and tell him that nobody has a right to tell him that the fire is about to consume him? Would you call someone a fanatic for calling the fire department or telling the neighbor to get out of his house?

If Jesus were to ask you if you would be willing to warn those He loves who are in infidelity today, would you do it? Would you be willing to call people to repent so that Jesus would not lose a loved one He suffered and died for? Or will you take God's blessings on your life and use it to comfort His beloved people in unfaithfulness into eternal punishment?

When Jesus questions you about how you used this day, will He find that you served Him faithfully?