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 §92
A little old wretched woman, filthy, dirty, living with six men---she'd married five, and the one she lived with then wasn't hers---went out to a well one day to get some water. And when she let down the pump, or the bucket, in the windle, down to get the water... And when she started up with it, she seen a middle-aged man sitting over there, a Jew. Said, "Woman, bring me a drink." She said, "We got segregation. There's no customs here for you being a Jew to ask me, a Samaritan woman, for such a thing as that. We h...
But it wasn't so from the beginning
61-0411 §85
Then, the first thing you know, here comes little Sarah, sister---little black-eyed thing, about this high, wearing Becky's hand-me-downs. I don't know whether your children do that or not. Pajamas with the feet on them way too big, and here she come, falling over everything. And she got to the door. And Rebekah looked around to her, and she said, "Sarah, my sister," said, "I want you to know that I was here first."---just like some of the big, long organization churches, see. "I was here first, and I have all of D...
Forsaking all
62-0123 §143
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Forsaking all
62-0123 §144
I'm a stranger to you, sir. I don't know you. I've never seen you in my life. We're total strangers. That's right. We're two nationalities: I'm an Anglo-Saxon; you an Indian. I have a little of the blood in me from my mother. My grandmother was a Cherokee. I'm proud of it. But as my brother, I'd do nothing to harm you. I would only help you. The Indian tribe used to be... If they had one among them that could predict, and show where the game was, he become a prophet among them. And they were... But if he predicted...
Forsaking all
62-0123 §24
Reminds me of a little thing I usually tell on my two little girls. They're not so little now, and they're pretty good-sized girls. But when they were little... One of them is Rebekah---she's the oldest. And Sarah, she's the little one. And Becky has blue eyes; and Sarah has brown. But they're both Daddy's girls, you know. And so, they wait up to see me come home, and they're always ... love to see me. And so, Becky is kind of ... was kind of a tall, skinny sort of a girl; and Sarah was a little ... kind of a short...