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    Are You Equally Yoked?

    Many people have been informing me of some of the things that are going on in theirrelationship. The things which I have heard saddens me but at the same time doesn't surpriseme, because no one feels as if they are being mistreated and disrespected, and stays in thatrelationship. So I asked myself, how are these people claiming to be in the truth, but having the

    problems that I have heard? Then that brought me to one thing, how are they yoked? So letsdive right into the scriptures and find out that.

    Question: So what does the bible say concerning people being yoked together?

    2 Corinthians 6:14 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowshiphath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?

    FYI: See this is what a lot of people hear growing up, they are taught they should not beunequally yoked with unbelievers, but never taught how to identify unbelievers. When a manand a woman find out they both are fans of a certain actor that is taken as a belief of themhaving something in common. When in all actuality, one could name a movie by that actor and

    the other may not like that particular movie the actor starred in, why, because of the concept ofthe movie. They could recall and interview that their favorite actor did and one may not like thatparticular interview, cause of the responses that actor gave. Now when one is truly a fan ofsomeone, they like them regardless of their flaws they can't do no wrong, and because of theirloyalty to them everything they do is always considered good because it featured them. So howcould a man and woman find out them both are fans of a certain actor, and believe that meansthey have something in common? See people are getting the composition of what they desire ina particular mate, but a composition is only things combined together to form a unified whole. Acomposition consists of things liked, but having the definition of something determines if youlove it or not.

    When you define something, you determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of it,

    you identify what makes it distinct, you detail it until you are able to format an outline of it, andthis is not what people are being taught growing up. When an intoxicated man gets behind thewheel of a car, he thinks and believes he is fit and in the condition to be in a moving vehicle.Why, because driving is common but he unaware his vision is impaired, so by him being behindthe wheel of a moving vehicle, he is bound to find himself in an accident and end up hurtingsomeone else. Just like a man and a woman who have a composition of a potential mate butnot the definition of a mate, this is what makes them intoxicated because their heart is walkingafter their eyes. So they think and believe they are fit and in the condition to be in a relationshipbecause of the composition of things they have in common, but they are unaware their vision isimpaired. So by them being in a relationship, they are bound to find themselves in an accidentwhich they could have avoided, had they understood the definition of a mate before theyboarded. This is the format of an unbeliever thats not being taught to the people, they are being

    giving one understanding which says hey if they don't believe in God, then don't talk to themthey are an unbeliever. But they have the understanding that Christmas is Christ's birthday,which on this day people who don't believe in Christ and people who do believe in Christ giveeach other gifts and yoke together. So its the Spirit of a person that has to be examined, inorder to determine if they are an unbeliever.

    Question: So how does one determine if one is an unbeliever?

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    2 Corinthians 4:13 - We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, andtherefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

    FYI: So where did the precept say we having the same spirit of faith, according to our likes of acertain movie, or likes of a certain television show, or likes of a certain color, or likes of a certaineating place, or likes of a certain song? Nowhere, but yet these are the things the world uses

    and teaches to determine compatibility, which these things null and void ones spiritualcomprehensibility. So when people read be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers, theyunderstand it to mean don't date someone that doesn't believe in God, because the world hasconformed their vision to an impaired state of mind. An unbeliever is anyone who doesn't do allthat which is written in the bible to do, so if a person is not following the laws and statutes andcommandments of the Most High, but yet say they believe in the Most High, then how could thatbe so if how they live is not according as it is written?

    That's the definition of an unbeliever! So if in John 14:15 it says - If ye love me, keep mycommandments, then how could one who professes to love the Most High choose to be withsomeone who does not live according to the commandments as it is written? This is how youyoke with an unbeliever, in John 14:24 Christ said - He that loveth me not keepeth not my

    sayings: and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. So if a person isnot living according to the laws and statutes and commandments of the Most High, then theydon't love him, so if they don't love their creator enough to obey him, then how could they loveyou? They can't, which is why the world teaches the composition of a mate and not thedefinition of a mate. Why, cause how much money would they make if the people had the samespirit of faith according as it is written in the bible? The bible teaches a man and woman arebound to each other until death, a man and woman coming together according to the things theyhave in common, in which those things are not according as it is written? Who spends the mostmoney in clubs, who goes to the movies more, who eats out to get to know someone more, whospends the most money on music and love songs, single people.

    Question: What do they know?

    Amos 3:3 - Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

    FYI: They know unless a man and a woman believe they have things in common, they not goingto get together. So they give you horoscopes, Soap Operas, the Bachelor, the Bachelorette,Flavor of Love, I Love New York, the Real World, Road Rules, Love & Basketball and other lovemovies and reality shows that depict people coming together unequally yoked based off thething they have in common. Ask yourself, how come none of these things are centered aroundthe bible if the world wants people to follow the bible? Why do you think they show you peoplehooking up based on the things they have in common, and going to church together, andbreaking up as if the things they hooked up based on are not the same anymore? Because theytrying to give you a false perception of a way of life that is not according as it is written. These

    shows got relationships just like shoes, people getting into them and taking them off all the time,giving off the understanding that if one does not fit you can always get another one. So you seepeople getting in and out of relationships like they in a department store trying on shoes, inwhich they will buy a pair and then take it back once they don't want it anymore, same thing inthese relationships. They find fault in the shoe or someone dislikes of the shoe or a new shoecatches their eye, then they do not want the shoe anymore they tired of it all of a sudden. See ifthey would have examined the quality of the shoe according to how the manufacturer made it tobe worn and the size written for it, then their focus would not have been on the design of it, orthe color of it, and they would have known if the shoe would have suited their need instead of

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    their want. Same thing for relationships.

    Question: What does the bible say we ought to be?

    Philippians 2:2 - Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of oneaccord, of one mind.

    FYI: When a man and woman are likeminded, that means they of similar spirit, and 2Corinthians 4:13 says we having the same spirit of faith according as it is written therefore webelieve. Therefore, to get with someone who does not live according to what's written in all thebible, is to yoke up differently and when you do that, youre not of the same spirit because lighthas no fellowship with darkness. So how can you say I believe according as it is written, and 1John 1:5 says in him is no darkness, but yet you get with a person who's not of the same spiritof him who you believe in? That is darkness, so how are you a believer in which a believer isone who is in the body of Christ? Youre not , you have been deceived!

    FYI: Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers, in whom we read above that the Most Highsaid - if you love me keep my commandments. Therefore, in order for a person to keep the

    commandments of the Most High, they to fear, then they can believe according as it is writtenthen they can live according to his word exemplifying their love for him. Therefore, if you getwith a person that does not live according to the commandments, then you are with someonewho does not have love. What is love - 1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for Godis love. So they do not even know the Most High who is love, so that is why they not keeping hiscommandments because they are unbelievers. This is the type of person you cannot yoke with,how can you have the same love when one obeys their creator and the other one does not?This is how cheating comes in, physical abuse, hatred towards each other, arguments, financialissues, cussing each other, lying to each other, stealing from each other, irreconcilabledifferences, divorce, and then child support. The key to every relationship is a man and womanhaving the spirit of the Most High in them.

    Question: What else?

    1 Corinthians 1:10 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that yeall speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly

    joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

    FYI: See before two people can come together, they got to have knowledge of their creator andfear him. Therefore, they learn to love him by fearing him which in the process they learn hislaws and statutes and commandments, which then leads to them believing according as it iswritten, which then leads to them developing the understanding of their roles and positions theymust first play in serving him, then together as a union. See by them having this understanding,they speak the same thing which is believe the same thing, they of one accord and one mind,

    therefore eliminating any chance for division between them. By both of them serving theircreator, and by them fearing and loving him, they have the same spirit of faith and love,therefore are they perfectly joined in the same mind and judgment, thus making them have arelationship according as it is written.

    Question: What does it take in order to get this perfect relationship?

    Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing ofyour mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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    FYI: See at birth we are all conformed to the ways of this world, and we are taught according asthe world is and not according as it is written. Which then we grow up to become teens andadults, and because of our lack of that which is written, we enter into relationships as this worldhas taught us to. For example when your pencil breaks you get another one, when your shirtrips you get another one, when something isnt to your pleasing, you get another one. In which

    this pattern becomes embedded into our conscious, therefore when we get into a relationshipand things are not going good or how we like them, we revert to our conscious, which has beentaught to just get another one. And you know this from the world's prospective, because what dothe people of the world tell you, you do not have to be with them if you not happy or things notgoing how you planned. Then they say God has somebody for everybody, in, which uplifts yousimply because it coincides with the belief that has been given to your conscious.

    FYI: You see Satan is the god of this world, so of course its going to be setup according to thelust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, in which the bible tells us in 1 John 2:16 isnot of the Father, but is of the world. See before you even come out of the womb, Satan has itsetup to where you will become conformed to this world, in which to be conformed, is to befashioned by it, educated by it, religion by it. Which therefore you speak according, dress

    according, think according, love according, hate according, comprehend according, all to theways of the world. This the Most High knows, which is why he commands us to be transformed.When you transform something, you changed its appearance, its structure, its condition, itsnature, its character, in which in biblical sense you do all this to change into the image of whomyou were created to be before you came out of the womb, this is how a person comes tounderstand their purpose. It is taken from you at birth but given back to you upon rebirth, whichis repentance for the remissions of your sins, and water baptism for the receiving of the Spirit ofthe Most High, this is how you renew your mind. Now by walking in the image of whom youwere created to be, and having the Spirit of the Most High, you are now able to determine andunderstand the will of the Most High. You cannot get this understanding and wisdom unless youlay down something.

    Question: What is that something which one must lay down?

    Luke 9:23 - And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, andtake up his cross daily, and follow me.

    FYI: That something in which you must lay down folks is your own carnal desires, which are ofthe flesh, the eyes, and the pride of life that you have been conformed since birth to have. Youmust step outside of yourself in order to see something greater than what you have and greaterthan who you are, then you can begin to understand who you could become. Then you can takeup your cross daily which is after the steps the Father laid out that are written. Taking up yourcross is a lifestyle its not a chain on your neck, Christ nor the prophets or apostles ever had achain around their neck, thats a dead mentality of the world, its idolatry. Being in total

    submission unto laws and statutes and commandments of the Most High, is how you follow him,and guess what happens when you do that? Deuteronomy 18:13 - Thou shalt be perfect withthe LORD thy God. So how does being totally in submission unto his word make you perfectwith him? 2 Samuel 22:33 - God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.Because by being totally in submission unto his laws and statutes and commandments, hebecomes your strength and power your foundation, therefore he maketh your way perfect. Sowhat is the way, which he maketh perfect? 2 Chronicles 19:9 - And he charged them, saying,Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. That which hemaketh perfect is your heart, because without a perfect heart you cannot love him therefore you

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    cannot serve him which means, he does not even recognize you. You got to be serious folkswhen you talking about serving the Most High, you can't afford to leave room for error, becausein him is no error, so how can his spirit be in you if you have room for error? It can't, this theworld knows which is why through the world Satan teaches no one can be perfect we all humanwe going to always make mistakes, folks that's lie you going to hell if you not perfect in heart.

    Question: What does the scripture say the Most High will not do?

    Job 8:20 - Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

    FYI: When you following the Most High according as it is written that makes you perfect, peoplewant to bring you down because they envy not being able to measure up to the standard. Youcan't afford to drop standard for nobody folks your soul is on the line you messed up just toplease somebody else, you going to bust hell wide open. Why does the Most High say lean notyour own understanding? Isaiah 55:8 - For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are yourways my ways, saith the LORD. Because how you understand and comprehend, is not how theMost High understand and comprehend, so you can't say see the Most High knows my heart,he understands, because that's lie. That is the way you understand and think, which is why the

    Most High said your ways are not his ways. What do a man's way to lead to? Proverbs 14:12 -There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Manways lead to death, so because the Most High loves you and does not want to see youdestroyed and in hell, he simply asks you to trust him hope in him, lean towards him, why?Psalm 18:30 - As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to allthose that trust in him. Why, because his way is perfect it is like the cereal its being kix tested,and mother approved lol. So if you following his way you have no choice but to become perfect,which is why Christ said - Matthew 5:48 - Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which isin heaven is perfect. By you being perfect, you are in the image of the Most High because he isperfect, so do not let this rotten society or no hypocrite and faultfinder and believer pretendermess you up. So now you should understand how to have a perfect relationship with yourcreator and self, and then with one of the opposite sex.

    Conclusion

    Sirach 13:18 - What agreement is there between the hyena and a dog? and what peacebetween the rich and the poor? Once you figure this out, then you'll understand the answer to -And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

    Sirach 2:15 - They that fear the Lord will not disobey his Word; and they that love him will keephis ways.

    Sirach 2:16 - They that fear the Lord will seek that which is well, pleasing unto him; and theythat love him shall be filled with the law.

    Sirach 25:1 - In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men:the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.

    Shalom brothers and sisters!

    Note: Scriptual reference from the NIV and Apocrypha