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Chapter 3

         HOW TO BE A GOOD LOSER - WIN!!!

                                         or

                                     "DIVORCE"

           In this chapter, we are going to discuss - divorce.

           Now, before you get your dukes up, I would like to

         invite you to hear me through, because I really want

         you to hear some good points after I present some

         "rough" ones.

           We were sitting at the table with some friends of

         ours, when a young married couple asked us our

         opinions about divorce. I responded by asking, "Why,

         are you looking for an escape?" I picked up the Bible

         and began reading aloud. We are to have NO

         opinions about divorce except God's. How about

         you? Hear the words of Jesus. St Matthew 5:31 & 32,

         "It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife,

         let him give her a writing of divorcement:" "But I say

         unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife,

         saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to

         commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that

         is divorced committeth adultery."

           Jesus speaks again in Matthew 19, verses 3 - 9:

         "The Pharisees also came unto Him, tempting Him,

         and saying unto Him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to put        

         away his wife for every cause?' " "And He answered

         and said unto them, ‘Have you not read, that He which

         made them at the beginning made them male and

         female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave

         father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and

         they twain shall be one flesh?" "Wherefore they are

         no. more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God

         hath joined together, let not man put asunder." "They

         say unto Him, ‘Why did Moses then command to give

         a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?' " "He

         saith unto them, ‘Moses, because of the hardness of

         your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives:

         BUT FROM THE BEGINNING IT WAS NOT SO.

         And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his

         wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry

         another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth

         her which is put away doth commit adultery." ‘ St.

         Mark also quotes Christ as above, including also

         these words of Jesus in chapter 10, verses 1 - 12, esp.

         11 & 12: "And He saith unto them, ‘Whosoever shall

         put away his wife, and marry another, committeth

         adultery. And if a woman shall put away her husband,

         and be married to another, she committeth

         adultery."'