Practical Conversations With Our Young People: Unequally Yoked

From: Practical Conversations With Our Young People: Conversations and Questions

Narrator: Chris Genthree

From: Young Christian: Volume 4, 1914

• 1 min. read • grade level: 8

We desire to draw attention particularly to question 2 of April, feeling the importance of the answer as given to us in 1 Cor. 6:14-18¹⁴And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. ¹⁵Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. ¹⁶What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. ¹⁷But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. ¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (1 Corinthians 6:14‑18).

There we find positive instruction to Christians, young and old, not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. When Christ is the object before our souls, and we are enjoying His love, thinking of all that He has done for us, we delight to speak of Him. His character as man while He was here on earth fills our souls, so that we may say, "O, Lord, make me more like Thyself!" It was His delight to do the will of Him that sent Him. "I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." (Psa. 40:8⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. (Psalm 40:8).) is it the desire of our hearts to please Him who so loves us; to be like Him in all our ways? If so, it will be an easy matter to obey such a Scripture as we have before us, and the result will be praise to Him, happiness in our own souls, and we will be preserved from much sorrow that many have had to pass through who have disobeyed it. Read the article "Unscriptural Marriage" in Vol. II. We could relate many such cases, but may that suffice as a warning, to preserve all our young friends from such a step, or an unequal yoke in any connection.

The first wrong step in that line is a lack of enjoying the Lord in the soul; then comes unfaithfulness to Him, and instead of speaking about Him to the unsaved acquaintances, there is the dropping down to their level, and joining in with them in their conversation.

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