Do not yoke yourself with unbelievers

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 The current world draws a boundary between believers and non-believers inside and outside the system of the church, and considers all believers as long as they enter the name of the church.

In fact, the Laodicea Church, the last of the 7 churches, is actually a gathering of unbelievers because Christ exists outside of them.

It is literally the synagogue of democracy.

Even now, people hold crosses on the roadside and offer Mass in the name of God , or acts such as conducting political events in the name of God are disbelief itself.

Those who know Christ and know God dare not drag the name out into the streets.

That's why Paul says, "Do not be yoked with unbelievers. For what do  righteousness and unrighteousness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?" (2 Corinthians 6:14).

When the Lord said, “O faithless and perverse generation” (Matt. 17:17), he was referring to the Jews.

This is the Lord's eval‎uation of the Pharisees and scribes who claim to have special faith in God.

At this point, those who think of the teachings of the Talmud as gold and jade are also people without faith, right?

Those who do not walk by faith but by the flesh are those who do not have faith.

If the Spirit and the flesh do not become one, it is not by faith.

Those who do not believe that Christ is in them are the lake of fire, the second death (Revelation 21:8).

The reason I say that if you die now, you will be in the lake of fire is because you see the absence of Christ in you.

The first death came from Eden.

Through one man, Adam, sin entered, and death by  sin; so death passed upon to all men, for that all have sinned. (Romans 5:12).

It happened just as God said, “You will surely die” (Genesis 2:17).

Therefore, the human flesh is without hope because it is separated from the life of God unless it is saved in Christ.

That's why it says not to be yoked with unbelievers.

It means that the person of the Holy Spirit and the flesh should not even begin.

“What concord have Christ and Belial? or what part has he that believe with the unbeliever?, what agreement has the temple of God with idol? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” (2 Corinthians 6:15-16).

In the new covenant, the body becomes a temple, and the Spirit of truth works in us, so that the most holy place is equipped to advance to the throne of God's grace.

He makes us holy saints called in heaven, with crown of glory and honour.

The reason we do not progress is because we had no death with Christ on the cross, and the reason we do not change is because we do not deny ourselves in the state of being one with Christ.

Those who have the new covenant always bear the death of Jesus, so the life of Jesus appears in their bodies, and they deny themselves as living beings, so they live believing in the appearance of the life (2 Cor. 4:10-11).

The problem is that you and I have been deceived by Satan and are deceiving ourselves that we are living by faith, as Paul pointed out, even though we do not live according to the Holy Spirit (Galatians 6:7).

“Therefore Come out from among them and be you separate; said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;and I will receive you, And will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:17-18).

According to the words of the Apostle John, antichrist is not to have Christ in him.

Just as one of the two Azazel goats was discarded and the other was offered up, as the priest of redemption, he gave up his body on the cross to pay for our sins and to give us new life, he rose again and sat down at the right hand of God, afterward, he sent the Spirit of truth within us, so that we believe in and receive the only begotten Son who gave himself to us and have eternal life (Jn 3:16).

Therefore, if Christ, the Son, lives in him, he has eternal life, and if he does not follow the death and resurrection of his Son, it is unbelief and that is where the wrath of God dwells (John 3:36).

There is no one in the world who attends Jesus, the priest of atonement who came to this earth, was abandoned, and died on the cross by shedding blood.

Conceptually, I just believe that I am attending Jesus.

Faith is believing in and accepting Christ as the Savior as one who hears the words of Christ, realizes the merits of his death and resurrection in Christ, and receives the grace of forgiveness of sins.

Therefore, there are many unbelievers who say they believe in Jesus but do not know that Christ is in them.

Paul is pointing out to the Corinthian church that there are unbelievers among them who do not know the new covenant.

I affirm that those who deny themselves because they have Christ within them, and who know how to take up their cross and thus eat and drink with Christ, overcome the world and the flesh and sit on the throne of heaven, hear what the Spirit says to the churches (Rev. 3:19-20), they will automatically leave the humanistic church like Laodicea and be separate.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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