2 Corinthians 6:14

"Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?"

I have a lot to say concerning a relationship between this verse and marriage, and might get to it later. So stay tuned.


... Okay, I'm back. Its 6:15. And now I have to remember exactly where I was going with this.

Alright, I remember now. Basically, I still desire much to become a pastor eventually. However, now is not the right time for me to start on that path, which I will show using 1 Timothy 3. Basically, it is a list of requirements for church overseers (your translation probably says "bishop," but the meaning of the Greek word episkopos is neither here nor there). I will go over this and eventually back into the main topic. "An overseer must be:"

Above reproach:

I would not say that I am truly above reproach. I try to live as sinlessly as I can, but I can always improve, through the grace of God.

Temperate:

I tend to get angry easily, but once again, prayer to God for improvement will fix this.

Respectable:

I'll allow it.

Hospitable:

I am gracious to guests and accommodating. So this is alright.

Able to teach:

I am a good teacher. If you want to learn something from me, I'm more than willing to teach.

Not given to drunkenness:

This isn't a problem for me.

Not violent, but gentle. Not quarrelsome:

Besides my quickness to anger, I am not particularly violent.

Not a lover of money:

The root of all evil? No. I only need enough money to provide a good life for my family and to provide for the education of my children.

HUSBAND OF BUT ONE WIFE:

A requirement to lead a church as an elder. I need to be married and to raise a family (he must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect). I MUST be married...

Which brings the main topic, 2 Cor. 6:14, up. This refers to Genesis 2:24, where man and life become one flesh. Both parts of the one should be pointed towards Christ, lest the "righteousness and wickedness" be yoked together in a terrible manner. Besides, can two walk together, unless they are agreed (Amos 3:3).

I must marry a Christian woman who truly accepts Jesus Christ as her lord and savior, and as the only path to salvation (Acts 4:12, Romans 10:9, John 14:6, lots of other verses.). She must understand that salvation is by grace alone, not works (Ephesians 2:8-9), and that Jesus was sacrificed once for all sins (Hebrews 9:28, 10:12). I feel weird setting requirements for my wife, but so that I will be above reproach, I must have a believer as a spouse.

God's plan has set aside a woman for me who, being a complement to me, will form a single unit that provides a beacon of light, which to summon nonbelievers and the misinformed to Jesus with. I assume my life will be something like this: I go to college, get a degree, move somewhere that I can get a job, meet a woman in a church there, be married, enter seminary school, raise a family as a preacher, and be happy.

Thus I feel better than I did Tuesday. Post over.