But It Does Not Seem Fair, I Am the One Abandoned Here?
1) Direct Answer
I know it feels unfair, but the Word doesn’t change because someone wronged you. Even if you were abandoned, you are called to peace—not to chase—and to remain unmarried or be reconciled while your spouse lives. God will not abandon you.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says, “If the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace” (1 Corinthians 7:15). Peace to let them go—not permission to remarry.
- It already said, “Let not the wife depart… but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband” (1 Corinthians 7:10-11).
- “The woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth” (Romans 7:2-3; see also 1 Corinthians 7:39).
- When treated unjustly, Jesus “suffered… committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously” (1 Peter 2:21-23). He is our pattern.
- The Lord says, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5), and He is “nigh unto them that are of a broken heart” (Psalm 34:18).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Ask yourself: Does God change His covenant because someone else broke theirs? If man’s sin could dissolve God’s rule, then Jesus’ words about adultery would be set aside by abandonment. The Bible won’t contradict itself.
- “Not under bondage” means you are free from the obligation to force the union; it does not mean free to enter another. Allowing remarriage here would make man’s leaving do what God said man cannot do—put asunder what God joined.
- Obedience may feel like a cross, but grace meets you on that road. Adding another union while your spouse lives would only turn your pain into adultery. Staying with the Word keeps your conscience clean and your testimony bright.
4) Short Reinforcing Statement
You see, God sees the unfairness and will judge righteously. If there is danger or abuse, separate for safety and peace, but keep yourself pure—unmarried or reconciled. Lean on the Lord, lean on the church for support, and let God be your keeper. He will not fail you.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Forsaking all
62-0123 §64
...somebody forsaking something, let's look what for Jesus ... Jesus forsook for us. Jesus gave up everything. He had a home in heaven. And He gave up his home in heaven and came to the earth, and did not even have a place to lay his head. That's right. He become so low, till He didn't even ... so poor, till He didn't even have a bed to sleep in. He said, "The foxes has dens, and the birds has air ... of the air has nests, but the Son of Man don't even have a place to lay his head," see. But what did He get for that?...
Questions and Answers
62-0527 §56
The gathering of the people will be not clannish, for a group here. It'll be a universal resurrection gathering together, and the rapture will come the same way. Because He said, "When one fell asleep in this watch, one in that watch, one in ... on down to the seventh watch. And then when the bridegroom come, all of them awakened, everyone, all the way from the time of Genesis until the end of Revelation. Every one of them awakened, that's right, to get ready to go in." Now, you see, He shows that all the dead will...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-78
"You are blind and naked." Now this is really desperate. How can anyone be blind and naked and not know it? Yet it says that they are blind and naked and can't perceive it. The answer is, they are spiritually blind, and spiritually naked. Do you remember when Elisha and Gehazi were surrounded by the army of the Syrians? You recall that Elisha smote them blind by the power of God. Yet their eyes were wide open and they could see where they were going. The blindness was peculiar in that they could see certain things,...
One of the meanest men in town
61-0429B §30
She thought, "Oh, look at that, how the rich have it all." Looking around, she thought, "Well, I'll tell you, they always invite, of course, their own class, and we never have a chance." But after a while her eyes fell to the corner. There sat a little unnoticed person. And she could tell that the dust was on him. "Well, how did he get in there? Wonder who that is?" Had his head down. Nobody was paying him any attention. She thought, "I wonder how he ever got in? Why, he must have slipped in without being invited....
Watchman, what of the night?
60-0722 §58
Oh, it does something to you when you really get saved, really get something in your heart. Oh, that little song the Pentecostal people used to sing... Well, I can't sing, but let me try it. There are people almost everywhere, Whose hearts are all on flame With the fire that fell on Pentecost, That cleansed and made them clean; Oh, it's burning now within my heart, Oh glory to His name! I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them, I'm one of them, one of them, I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them; (Hallelujah)...