The Divine Institution
God’s
Grace Policy Related to Marriage.
What is Marriage? A Picture of Christ
1. We cannot justify ourselves in spiritual death. In grace God justifies us at the moment of salvation through personal faith in Christ.
2. We cannot justify sin in our lives as Christians. In grace God cleanses us from post salvation sinning and restores us to fellowship with himself through the rebound technique of 1 John 1.9
3. We cannot justify blessing from God through our works or Christian experience. In grace God justifies blessing to believers, both winners and losers, through logistical grace.
4. The grace policy of God rules our lives. We cannot go back and rectify our sins and failures; and this includes our failures both in marriage and divorce. But we can go forward under the grace policy of God. And we can execute plan of God and glorify him.
5. You cannot change the past, but as long as you are alive you can change the future. The consequences of past sins and failures are in God’s hands, but the future belongs to you under grace. It isn’t what we do that counts, but what God does that counts.
6. The sins of marriage and divorce are no different that the sins of any other category of living. Therefore, if you discover that you are living in adultery, rebound once, forget it, and keep moving in your current marriage.