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Question:<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not my case,\u00a0I am curious to know: What should a virgin girl or a boy do, if her future husband or his future wife is not virgin anymore?<\/em><\/span> Noted that that person had committed fornication\u00a0before she\u00a0repented.<\/em><\/span> What to do?<\/em><\/span> Could there exist any problems in this marriage?<\/em><\/span> What are the risks?<\/em><\/span> We should forgive, shouldn\u2019t we?<\/em><\/span> God says to forgive one another as He has forgiven us.<\/em><\/span> Do you agree? I expect the answer.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Thank you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I will begin to answer the question with this biblical passage:<\/span><\/p>\n For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;\u00a0and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.\u00a0Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.\u00a0Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.\u00a0Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,\u00a0namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.\u00a0(2 Corinthians 5:14-19)(NASB)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Christ\u2019s love is the one that binds us and\u00a0this love is\u00a0possible only when we do not relate\u00a0according to what one knows about another one according to the flesh, but in the way of Christ.<\/span> According to the flesh we\u00a0know the sins\u00a0we have once\u00a0committed, but in Christ we know\u00a0the perfect forgiveness\u00a0that we have received and through which we have become new people, new creatures.<\/span> Therefore, we do not remember each other\u00a0the mistakes and the sins committed against each other.<\/span> And if someone has not kept\u00a0his virginity, it is true that he has committed a crime and a sin against the future marriage partner.<\/span> However, once that person has repented wholeheartedly and was born again by entering\u00a0the New Covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ, we will not look at that person\u00a0in terms of what she has\u00a0done before repentance, but in terms of what is now in Christ \u2013 a new creature.<\/span> The old things passed away.<\/span> God has entrusted to us the preaching of this perfect reconciliation\u00a0in Christ, according to which,\u00a0He no longer\u00a0takes into account their\u00a0sins.<\/span> If you understand and have experienced God\u2019s forgiveness you have received in Christ Jesus, you\u00a0will be ready to give to others this forgiveness, without counting the sins made before repentance.<\/span><\/p>\n Not all who claim to be God\u2019s children are so and there are some who come to church, get involved even in the gospel ministry, but have not experienced a new birth\u00a0and thus, have not become new creatures in Christ.<\/span>\u00a0Some live a double life and secretly\u00a0commit sins\u00a0that\u00a0later are\u00a0revealed. <\/span>Recently I met a young woman\u2019s parents from whom I learned that their daughter had married a boy from church who at first seemed to be a good boy, but\u00a0something was\u00a0suspect, though they\u00a0thought it was\u00a0only lack of Christian maturity that would be recovered with time.<\/span> There wasn\u2019t so \u2026 After marriage, when they went on honeymoon, he took a\u00a0cigarette to smoke.<\/span> His young wife was in shock of seeing, and he said he had always smoked and did not think it was a sin, etc. <\/span>Then, he began to\u00a0get drunk and finally went with another woman leaving his wife and their child that had been recently born. Then to justify his deed, he threw false\u00a0and unfounded accusations as that child\u00a0was not from him and other aberrations of this kind.<\/span> Here\u2019s how\u00a0such a marriage ended up.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyone who has read the Old Testament book of Joshua, knows the history of Rahab.<\/span> She was a prostitute of Jericho and lived\u00a0in the paganism of her people.<\/span> But when she learned about the true God, wholeheartedly believed and sought deliverance to\u00a0Him by faith and she\u00a0risked her life when she hid the two spies sent by Joshua to explore the country.<\/span> In the book of Joshua, chapter 6, we learn that at the conquest of the city only Rahab and her father\u2019s family were spared.<\/span> Even more, she was allowed to live in Israel.<\/span> The Bible presents us some other\u00a0important\u00a0moments about\u00a0her life among the people of Israel. <\/span>At the\u00a0beginning of the Gospel of Matthew we are given the genealogy of the Lord Jesus, that says:<\/span><\/p>\n Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse.\u00a0(Matthew 1:5)(NASB)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This Rahab\u00a0is the same person of the Old Testament.<\/span> From this verse we learn that once she truly believed in God and became part of Israel, she lived a new life as a new creation.<\/span> She\u00a0was taken in marriage by Salmon, the father of Boaz and she became\u00a0one of the few women whose name is listed in the genealogy of the Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have received perfect forgiveness in\u00a0Christ Jesus and you became a new creature, you will not know other children of God according to the flesh, but in the way of Christ, no longer holding on account of their sins they had committed when they\u00a0had been\u00a0without\u00a0Christ.<\/span> But you\u00a0will\u00a0act wisely entering\u00a0marriage only with the person that you strongly know that s\/he is a new creation in Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n Translated by Felicia Rotaru<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: It\u2019s not my case,\u00a0I am curious to know: What should a virgin girl or a boy do, if her future husband or his future wife is not virgin anymore? 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Understand God\u2019s forgiveness<\/span> <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Make sure the person who wants to marry you is truly a new creation<\/span> <\/strong><\/h2>\n
Marriage with a person who has become a new creature will make you happy<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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