Is Friendship with Unbelievers Being Unequally Yoked?
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason talks about what it really mean to be unequally yoked.
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Amen, and bad company corrupts good character (1 Corinthians 15:33). Greg you gave a perfect and thorough explanation!!! Indeed non-Christians need to hear the gospel.
I was once in a church where few true believers started fellowshipping with unbelievers, I noted the behavior of believers become more like that of unbelievers, so believers drifted off, so I had to distance myself from those believers, just for them yoking themselves with unbelievers.
Not feeling as close to unbeliever friends is something that came naturally after converting in my case. The most important thing to me seems ridiculous to them and the type of things they believe seem ridiculous to me nowadays as well, so it's difficult to be close friends with someone in these circumstances.
The David and Jonathan type of friendships.
I had a close friendship with my ex-boss until I realized I was unequally yoked with him. He was trying to pull me into a direction that is clearly NOT what God has for me.
The reference in this video to Psalm 1 is apt. I shall be more cautious in future.
It means don't pollute urself with them. And they make the nonbelievers stronger than us.
God bless good message
His understanding of 1 Corinthians 5:10 "for then must ye needs go out of the world" is grossly wrong. Paul is not eluding to the need of leaving all of society, but the world; as in the wicked, ungodly unbelieving, children of disobedience.
The Lord literally commands us to come out from among them and be separate. (2 Corinthians 6:17)
And we are commanded not to be friends with the world, or else we are enmity with God. (James 4:4)
You need to preach the gospel faith without works is dead
Great video, but what does Greg mean by "business deals"? For example, I had another Christian tell me that I shouldn't getting my prescriptions at Safeway, because it's Mormon-owned. Personally, I don't think God cares. And avoiding Mormon-owned businesses would be pretty hard, because there are quite a few of them.
I'm guessing it might be, for example, starting a business with an unbeliever where it would be just you two at the top. I imagine that the ethos of the business would differ, and possibly lead to compromise. How far you'd go for a profit, how you treat your workers, even just general decision making would be difficult to manage between two people with essentially opposing views.
This might not always be the case though.
lets say friendship relationship. If you have a friend who is unbeliever (lets say atheist, agnostic, or JW) and you go for a coffee and talk, and he insults you or makes you feel bad each time or often when you meet him, than really you should move away from that relationship. I have shared gospel few times with them, but it did not brought them to believe. Shake of the dust and move on.
Church Disipline is for the evil doers in the church. A little leven leventh the whole lump. See 1 Corinthians about the man who had his father’s wife.
Amen to that!!!
Forgive them father, they know not what they do. They are wicked in their heart.
God bless you!!! Flee unbelievers. They will bring darkness into your life. Do not try to convert them. Separate yourselves. Let them stay in their own country.
How do you bring souls to the truth if we are to flee?
@@iveacendedboyos1555 It's not by our own strength, it's the Holy Spirit's Ministry.
I can’t. I love my friends. They’re amazing. They understand me like no one ever has. They treat me better than any Christian ever has. I’m expected to just leave them for my own sake? How selfish. If I’m going to Heaven, I want them to come with me. After all, I love them much more than I love myself
@@josephpchajek2685 Can you show me the part where I said that my friendship would bring them to Heaven? I said that I love them and I don’t want them to go to hell. I never said that I could fix it. Also, how is it selfish for me to not want to abandon my friends who give me unconditional love?
I know this is late, but not sure this means not having close friends or associating with family who are non believers. I do think this means that we are to be different and live holy lives not participate. In sin. I have a friend who once made a commitment to the Lord. We have known each 40 years. She and I grew up together. She has strayed from the lord, however, her heart is soft. towards god. I am totally blind and she does some support work for me. Even before she started working with me, she was always there for me when my mum passed away. I am not sure how my disabled husband and I would have managed without her. I believe she was sent from God. She knows what I believe, and where I stand, and even asked me to pray for her. So I don’t believe I am an equally yoked as she does not and cannot pull me in the wrong direction. What do you guys think, please pray for her salvation. Her name is Joanne.
We should seek Gods people. Once the world rejects truth that's on every street corner already anyway our mission is done. It's already done cause most people in America already know truth n rejects it anyway.if one is open ? Fine. If a doper etc. get the hell away from them or you'll tarnish your self( abstain appearance of evil bible also says). Dogs will be dogs n sheep belong with sheep. Doesn't mean small talk is forbidden
If an unbelieving couple in which one of the spouses gets saved, does that couple still be unequally yoked? If so, how could Paul then turn and discourage unequal yoking in another verse
Unequal yoke in marriage is permissible in situations where either couple got saved while already married. It's therefore wrong for someone saved to get married to an unsaved person that's harmful to the believer's faith and ultimate eternity.
1 Corinthians 7 will give your answer.
1 Corinthians 7:12-16 KJVS
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. [13] And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. [14] For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. [15] But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases : but God hath called us to peace. [16] For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
Listening to this 8 months or so later, I literally exclaimed, "OH MY WORD", when I heard this man's claim that Paul didn't mean for believers to not associate with immoral people from the world.
Paul states right there in verse 9 of 1 CORINTHIANS 5, that he did indeed write unto the Corinthians to NOT company with fornicators (of the world), and he confirms what he means only a few words later, in verse 10, saying, "Yet NOT (to keep company) altogether with the fornicators of this world".... and he then goes on to include several other types of people of the world, saying, "or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters"; and then Paul gives the directive, "for then ye must needs go out of the world". Translated into modern English, Paul is saying that for those reasons, they have to come out from among the people of the world.
"For then ye must needs..." = "For then you have to..."
Further evidence to support this, is how Paul says, "BUT NOW I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a BROTHER be a fornicator, or adulterer, or covetous,.... etc.
So first Paul gives a directive for believers not to associate with the sinners of the world, and NEXT, he gives a directive not to associate with anyone who claims to be a Christian and is committing a sin of the world.
Paul is clearly directing believers to not company with ANYONE, be they sinners of the world, or sinners who claim to be brethren.
See 2CORINTHIANS 6 for additional evidence of the need for believers to separate from ungodly, unbelieving, sinners, of this world.
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Yoked it’s marriage with unbelievers