EMOTIONAL ABUSE IS THE SILENT KILLER OF MARRIAGES IN THE CHURCH No one wants to address the 800 lb gorilla in every church in the world. Satan wants to force people to stay in marriages where one person is the abuser and the other person is their victim behind closed doors. The church sadly is filled with many religious people controlled by demons screaming that “God hates divorce” in order to keep the abused victims chained to their abusers for life until they die unable to do much of anything for Christ yet they stay silent on “God hates abuse in marriage which causes divorce.” So those who are controlling, manipulative, coercive, prideful, evil, demanding and destructive get away with slowly killing their spouse by tormenting them into sickness and disease through constant emotional abuse over years resulting in their victim’s hair loss, weight gain or loss, depression, suicidal thoughts, and lack of any true sexual intimacy often developing into sexual abuse. There are many men and women who demand their spouse obey them like a slave behind closed doors instead of loving them like Christ while acting like they are such a loving and doting spouse in front of…

We have all been hurt by people in our lives. We have been controlled, betrayed, lied & gossiped about, and many of us have been emotionally abused and some physically or sexually abused. God requires that everyone forgive those who have sinned against them in order to have their own sins forgiven by Him. “For if you forgive men their sins, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, neither will your Father forgive your sins.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:14-15‬ ‭ So does that mean that every relationship should be restored if the person who hurt you doesn’t own their bad behavior and change and still remains unhealthy or emotionally abusive? Did Jesus want to stay in relationship with everyone? He absolutely did not want to stay in close relationship with the Pharisees and scribes. Matthew 10:34-39 Christ Brings Division 34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and a man’s enemies will be those of…