Lesson 2898

(Lesson 2898)(12-05-19) 2 Corinthians 6:11-18
    “O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”

    In today’s quote, Paul related to the Corinthians that they should pull themselves away for the symbols and rituals of the heathen idol worshipers.
    The vast majority of our so-called Christian churches still practice some form of what Paul warned the Corinthians about as they maintain their heretical statues and rituals.
    There are also many today who wrongfully contend that the statement, “be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers”, has to do with whether or not a Christian should marry an unbeliever. That contention is misguided in that Paul had already said that if a person was married to an unbeliever they should stay in the marriage because through their faith, the soul of the lost husband or wife might be saved: “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband”. (1 Corinthians 7:14 in part) The “unequally yoked” part of the quote was addressing the issue that some of the Corinthians might be allowing idolators and their pagan statues and rituals into the church.~