No. 1635: Pastor Geir Stomnås is not remarried himself, but defends them that are!

 No. 1635:

Pastor Geir Stomnås is not remarried himself, but defends them that are!

 

Picture of Stomnås who is a liberal preacher who opens up for sin, remarriage and demonic activity in the congregation with his defense against what God's word speaks against.

 

Geir Stomnås is Pastor in the Pentecostal church Filadelfia Vennesla in the South of Norway.

 

2 Tim 4:2-3 Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching! 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts, they will heap to themselves teachers, because they have itching ears.

 

The problem is not that they do not understand that divorce/remarriage is wrong according to the sound doctrine of the Scriptures, it has never been the historical position and teaching of the church that divorce/remarriage is the "sound doctrine", but they cannot endure/suffer to hear the sound doctrine, i.e. they will not come to terms with the fact that they have made bad choices with their spouse or they will not suffer for the sake of righteousness and remain single after divorcing/being abandoned, being the so-called innocent party. They go from being an innocent party to becoming a guilty party by remarrying after divorce.

 

The main problem is that they cannot endure, they cannot come to terms with the fact that they must be single for the rest of their lives while the divorced spouse is still alive. This is the same carnal spirit of lack of self-control that we find in sodomites who demand their right to exercise their form of “love,” it should be a “human right.” It is no human right to be married or to be able to acquire a new wife or husband when the marriage is broken by divorce.

 

1 John 4:8 He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.

 

Everyone wants to declare their love and that God is gracious/full of love, the prerequisite for love is to know God, when they reject sound doctrine they are unable to love as God loves because they reject what God thinks about love. It is love for God that is shown by remaining single after divorce/being abandoned/innocent party.

 

Now that almost all preachers are either divorced and remarried or stands by that divorce/remarriage is what the Bible teaches and allowes, it is not easy to turn the tables. When the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch. The ditch warned against is: remarriage for believers, eternal damnation, separated from the Lord Jesus Christ forever, no wedding feast in heaven for these.

 

Titus 1:7-9 For an overseer must be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for filthy lucre, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate, 9 holding fast the faithful word according to the doctrine, that he may be able both to exhort by sound doctrine and to rebuke those who contradict.

 

Another thing most people do not understand is that there is a difference between grace and forgiveness being available to everyone who comes to God based on the Blood through the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace and forgiveness are not the same as if I have become blameless in the eyes of men and in the eyes of God. There are higher requirements for those who are to be overseers. The integrity we are talking about here is our righteous walk/lifestyle as representatives/ambassadors on behalf of Christ. We find the same principle in the rest of the secular world that has certain criteria that must be met for different offices/positions/occupations.

 

The Lord Jesus Christ never said to the divorced, “I give you forgiveness and grace to remarry after divorce” but what he said to all who had heavy burdens was:

 

Matthew 11:28-29 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

 

As a church and the body of Christ, we are in a very bad condition to suffer for Christ's sake if we want revival and persecution, when we cannot even control our feelings of loneliness/being single and sexual urges. How can we stand with the Lord in tough times when the Lord is not enough in times of peace. Most people do not want to live godly because it arouses the wrath of the ungodly/religious.

 

2 Tim 3:12 And all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

 

Titus 2:11-15 For the grace of God has appeared to bring salvation to all men, 12 teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works. 15 Speak these things, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you!

 

Final comment:

 

With such a doctrinal standpoint, one pushes out those who are not part of this unbiblical and carnal slippage that this is.

There is no room for both God and Satan.

For light and darkness.

Right and wrong.

The choice is made, when one first opens up for remarriage among us Christians!

 

2 Cor. 6. 19 Since you have received these promises, beloved, cleanse yourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.