11Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide. 12You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections. 13Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.
14Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
Paul pours out his heart in the letter to the Corinthian church. He explains to them their restraining due to their affections and speaks to them as if they were children due to their infancy in Christ.
He warns them not to be bound with unbelievers or false gods, in partnership with lawlessness or darkness.
I repeat: "what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?"
What about you? Since you came to Christ, do you still hangout with the unbelieving? Still drinking or doing drugs? Still going places or surfing the Internet where you shouldn't?
How can you not heed the biblical warnings? God will not be fooled with folly.
Do you remember Lot's folly, how he ended up in Sodom? Was it not Abraham who rescued him with his continual pleading with the Lord? Yes Lot was righteous. Why then was he living in an evil city God was getting ready to destroy?
Genesis 18:23 Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
What about you, are you treading where you shouldn't be?
Blessings, David
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