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

Nobody should go into adultery without being willing to perish into hell and take children and loved ones along by example.

The Bible calls adultery 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 Adultery
Some people feel they can end their marital obligations by getting a divorce quickly and remarrying their partners in adultery, 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 adultery.

Surprisingly some pastors ignorantly insist adulterous marriages are morally binding and that Deuteronomy 24:1-4 forbids the unfaithful to end their second marriages and return to their first ones. This is an act of extreme contortionism regarding scripture.

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, adulterous marriages are not legitimate and binding.

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 adulterous 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 Adultery

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 the church is so full of adultery, dishonesty, hypocrisy, pornography, divorce, and child molestation.

If we in the church are not fighting hard to end adultery, renounce it, denounce it, then we are spreading it and carrying it into the next generation luring them straight into hell.

We need to remember that Satan does not lure people into hell by scaring them away. He lures them into hell 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 and toward hell.

Satan is a master of false religion and false comforts. As long as we only seek our own comfort and pleasure, Satan 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 adultery 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 adultery into hell?

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