Living Covenant Spouse
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 1 Corinthians 5:11
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. Malachi 2:14
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. Rom 7:2
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. Matthew 22:30
Wisdom in the WORD 
Someone responded
“It would be very hard for a woman married to a pseudo believer. She would be commanded to not even eat with him.”
And
“It is interesting how there is much that goes into a marriage here, then it ends when we pass into eternity and for all that we see, there may be no special relationship in eternity.” (end)
Another replied
“This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” Ephesians 5:32-33
And
As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Builder marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. Isaiah 62:5
https://wtw.family.blog/2021/01/27/for-zions-sake/
To which
“Yes. The whole temporal thing continues to stump me. If it were not for the cross, one could possibly think/say that GOD was just “toying with us”, but the fact that HE submitted HIMself to the greatest suffering ever–far greater than we could ever suffer–indicates that HE means business, yet in our minds, could HE not have simply avoided it all by either not creating us or not allowing us to be tempted!” (end)
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HAMLET
To be or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.—Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia.—Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.
—–
Excerpted from
https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/hamlet/act-3-scene-1/
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1. Is LCS remarriage actually marriage?
YES, absolutely 100%
It is an adulterous marriage, and the one who desires to follow JESUS must follow Him by remaining faithful in the present situation as the servant of all, denying themselves and following him. This addresses all sides of LCS remarriage, both the consideration of it while single and the living out of it after first coming to JESUS. All else is of the evil one.
2. Is adultery marriage?
No
Adultery in itself is not marriage. But there are those who take adultery into marriage.
But we have that copy of the earliest first century letter from AD 48 which clearly instructs us to abstain from all such, even any hint of porneia, let alone moicheia.
“That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication [porneia]: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.” Acts 15:29
Marriage is good and from God and because of this it must be kept free from porneia and moicheia.
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[Sent to 5, then 1 more]
I am sitting here with my Bible still open, still reading, still studying, still reflecting.
This is a small, select handful of brothers.
There is an additional small, select handful of others I consider adding here, yet have not.
Some already here in this small, select handful may already prefer not to be included here.
Some of those included here now may not want to be included if I added some of the others.
Selah.
We who are here all agree about 99% of essential biblical doctrine, 100% regarding essentials of salvation though some would even disagree regarding that number.
Now regarding the matters that only 1 person here wrote me about most recently, we have commands from the LORD given through revelation and through scriptures passed on to us. We also have faithful judgments rendered in scripture by those trustworthy servants who went before.
Why am I writing? Because we cannot meet in person. Though we could meet via video conference. But as that may not happen, I thought it good to write this short letter to begin to sort out some of these reflections, and of utmost importance to declare with great clarity some of those commands and judgments.
The scripture is 100% clear that among the household of God, those who belong to the LORD, that God’s desire, purpose, plan, instruction and clear sound doctrine is for one man to be married to one woman for life.
But since there is so much immorality and because of the present and pressing constraints, there are many situations even among those who are called to be saints which call for sound and Godly counsel which is so lacking. Because of this lack, there are once again many like sheep without a Shepherd. And still, we have One Shepherd Who has given us “…words of the wise…as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies.”
I know of a woman who claims Christ, who is known by many and who has a Living Covenant Spouse (LCS). This woman is betrothed to be married to another even 6 weeks from now. I know others who have remained as they are, faithful to Christ alone despite the despicable and ungodly lives of their yet living and wickedly, adulterous husbands. I know others who in just the past few months have destroyed homes and families which were already shrouded by adulteries and confused semblances of marriage despite the matter in each situation of an LCS from a yet earlier time.
Brothers, these things ought not be so. If the salt has lost its flavor, it is worth nothing but to be cast out and trodden underfoot. It is time for judgment to begin in the house of God.
So again, to what end do I write this short brief? This is, if no more alone, then to stir us up to watch our life and doctrine closely, each in the fields in which we labor. If any here find it useful to pursue further these very clear and sound commands and judgments passed on to us, that would certainly be of more honorable character than neglecting these at least moderately weighty matters of the law of the spirit of life and grace. “If the righteous scarcely be saved, what shall become of the ungodly and the sinner?”
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