Notes used in the Message
08-0817am –Marriage & Divorce (What Makes A Marriage) - Samuel Dale
HEBREWS 13:1 - 4
1 ¶ Let brotherly love continue.
HEBREWS 13:2
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
HEBREWS 13:3
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
HEBREWS 13:4
4 Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
DEUTERONOMY 23:21 - 23
21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
DEUTERONOMY 23:22
22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
DEUTERONOMY 23:23
23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
MATTHEW 12:37
37
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned.
NUMBERS 30:1 - 5
1 ¶ And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children
of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
NUMBERS 30:2
2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with
a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that
proceedeth out of his mouth.
NUMBERS 30:3
3 ¶ If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond,
[being] in her father's house in her youth;
NUMBERS 30:4
4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her
soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall
stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
NUMBERS 30:5
5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of
her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and
the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
GOD.IS.HIS.OWN.INTERPRETER_ BAKF.CA V-8 N-6 WEDNESDAY_ 64-0205
25 It was so unusual until a good man by the name of Joseph, her husband, being a just man and was not willing to make her a public example. That good man in those days, how it must've been with Joseph when he was engaged, espoused to Mary.
She was espoused. In that day to break that was just the same as committing adultery. And of course, to Joseph it seemed like that Mary was trying to use him for a blockade, or make him be a shield for her wrong, 'cause here she was found to be a mother, not being married, only engaged. A trick like that would be stoned to death; it had to be by the law.
And Joseph her husband was a just man, a very just man. He believed God. And when she'd look at him with those lovely, big soft eyes, and say, "Joseph, Gabriel the Archangel visit me and told me that I was going to conceive, knowing no man."...
Now, if Joseph would have just looked back in the Scripture, the
prophet said she'd do that. It was only God interpreting His own Word. See? But
it was too unusual.
INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE_ SHP.LA V-2 N-15
THURSDAY_ 65-1125
13-6 Now, she has a sacred... One, I want to name three things here that she must not get away from. Now, I'm speaking, keep the church in mind while I'm speaking this to the natural woman, as Paul is here, in the 7th chapter of Romans. She has a sacred trust of virtue committed to her by her Lord: a certain virtue. Nothing else holds it but a woman. That's right. That's committed to her by God. She must not defile that virtue. If she even does something wrong, she must confess that to her husband before he takes her; and make it right. Just the same as the church that was married to the law has to come also before Christ, before the second marriage; she has to confess that. If she doesn't and she lives with her husband for ten years and then confesses it, he has a right to put her away and marry another woman. That's the Scripture. Fornication is unclean living.
"Joseph, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her if of the Holy Ghost." He was minded to put her away privately (See?), after he'd already engaged to her. When you are engaged to her, as far as God's concerned, you're married to her.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E
1036-Q-313 313. Brother Branham, what is the meaning of a annulment? Are people free to marry or is this just another word for divorce? I would like some information on this.
Sure they're married. As long as they take that vow, they're married. Just like a boy, if a boy promises a girl to marry her under good faith, he's obligated to that girl. He's just as good as married her. The only thing the law does, is give you a--a bill of rights to live together to keep from being common-law husband and wife. But when a man tells a woman, "I will marry you, Honey; I will take you for my wife. Will you take..." he's married.
Your vow is sacred; that's what marries you
anyhow. There's not no preacher can marry you, no
magistrate, or nothing else; it's your own vow to God and to this man. When you
promise, you are married.
1036-195 Looky. You say, "Brother Branham,
is that...? You say... You said you'd only answer that by the Bible." Did
you want the Bible on it? Raise your hands if you want it. Now, we got about
six or eight minutes. All right.
"Joseph, her husband, being a just man (her espoused husband, already called her husband)... Joseph, her husband, being a just man, was 'mindedly' to put her away privately on this wise; but before they came together, she was found with a child of the Holy Ghost. (See?) And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and saying, 'Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee, Mary, thy wife.'" Already married, he'd already promised her.
1037-197 And of... And little lady, if you promised to marry that boy, you're obligated
to do it. If you marry another after that obligation, you will--from now on
anyhow--you'll be living in adultery. And notice, the same thing to a boy
promising to marry a woman...
Don't you make your vow to anybody 'less you mean to stick with it. Remember, there's the Bible for it. Joseph promised to marry Mary. And God said that that was...
Read the Old Testament laws on that. See? The Old Testament law, if you promised to marry a woman, and you married another one, you was committing adultery; and it throwed you out of the camp. Yes, sir. You have to keep your vows when you promise a woman that. She's a sacred little vessel, and that's to bring child life into the world again. So when you promise her, you must marry her.
ODDBALL.THE_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0614E
50 I went to a certain place the other night to get something to eat, and the little boys and girls up there hugging and kissing like I don't know what. And do you know, my little sister, that that's potentially an adultery? When a man kisses you, he's potentially committed adultery with you. You should never let him kiss you until you're married, for the glands, both male and female glands, is in the lips. Do you understand? And when male and female glands come together, let it be where it may be, you have potentially committed adultery. And you shouldn't let a boy kiss you until that veil is raised on your face and you're his wife. Don't do that. It's committing adultery. It's mixing male and female glands.
Why don't a man kiss a man, woman kiss a woman in the lips? Because it don't cross the glands. Children is born by crossing glands. So it's almost a public adultery again, everywhere. Look on the screens and everything you see, a--a slobbering and a--a carrying on. No wonder immorality is on the--is on the incline. How can they do it and spurn themselves all up by kissing those women in the mouth, knowing that that's adultery. God won't forgive it unless you repent.
PRESENCE.OF.GOD.UNRECOGNIZED_ TOPEKA.KS V-20 N-2 THURSDAY_ 64-0618
115 Look at on... Look at today, how the people will stay home, that's call themselves Christians, and listen to such characters as Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, Ernie Ford, and those who sing hymns on Sunday; and look at them things, they look at them kissing them women, and things out there.
When no man should ever kiss a woman till he's married to her. That's male and female glands crossing. Let it be wherever it may be; it's wrong. It's potentially a sex act. When male and female glands touch, it's a sex act. There's made... A man kiss a man in the mouth, it'd make him vomit, or a woman a woman. Why is it different? It's a--it's a sex act, potentially. That's right. A type of Christ kissing His Bride. See? You should never do that.
But look at it today, all these movies and things, and one big conglomeration of kissing and hugging. And it's absolutely almost public adultery everywhere, and the people so blind they don't see it. That's right. Everything's in a Sodom condition, Sodomite everywhere, as the Bible said.