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Bonus: Being equally yoked · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Welcome back everyone to my podcast spending
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  time with dr. Christina. We're in season 7 still
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  with another bonus episode and tonight We're
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  talking about being equally yoked now. Let's
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  start with the scripture 2nd, Corinthians 6 14
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  Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers for
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  what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness
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  or what fellowship has light with darkness Now
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  I wanted to start with the scripture because
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  so many people are confused about this passage
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  and I want to highlight this and spend some time
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  on it so that Most of you can walk away with
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  more clarity and of course, it's a topic that
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  needs to be revisited over and over So I will
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  be talking about it again later in another Bible
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  study. However When we think about being unequally
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  yoked, this can be the same also with Christians.
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  Sometimes there are Christians where one is further
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  along and one is not. One is a new Christian
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  and one is more advanced with their walk with
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  the Lord. However, what's important to understand
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  about this topic is that You should be on the
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  same page. When we talk about being unequally
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  yoked, it means that we don't have an understanding
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  of the same things. One person understands one
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  thing about being a Christian, and another person
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  understands another. In fact, it could be more
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  like this. One person sees things one way. and
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  another has a more clearer picture of how they
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  see things. And when you're not on the same page,
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  there's nothing but strife and confusion. And
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  the Bible tells us where there's strife and confusion,
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  there's every evil work. So when we think about
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  being unequally yoked, we are basically talking
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  about relationships, whether they're female to
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  female, such as in a friendship, or male to female,
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  whether it's boyfriend or girlfriend or marriage,
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  but we're not seeing things correctly. And when
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  I say not seeing things correctly, we're not
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  seeing things the same way. So again, one person
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  may think, well, it's OK to fornicate, adultery,
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  and lie. go on this way and it's okay to do these
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  types of things and another person is saying
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  no I see this the way God sees this in the past
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  it could be one thing but when you walk with
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  the Lord and you're no longer that old person
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  your grave clothes are off it's not okay to keep
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  on sinning some people go to church weekly some
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  people even go to Bible study and that still
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  hasn't sunken in about the things of God. He's
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  a holy God, right? So if we made those mistakes
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  before, hey, let's not continue to make those
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  same mistakes. In fact, if you made those mistakes
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  yesterday and now you have more of an understanding
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  of walking with the Lord, stop making those mistakes.
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  Go forward and walk with the Lord and let the
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  Holy Spirit strengthen you in these weak areas
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  This is one of the reasons why I talked about
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  generational curses in past episodes because
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  sometimes the sexual sin comes from a generational
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  curse Maybe it was a struggle in the family.
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  Maybe it was a struggle that you created yourself
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  once you open the door fornication however, the
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  bottom line is that Some sins as the Bible says
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  can easily beset you but in order to take control
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  of your life You have to surrender it to God
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  surrender it to the Holy Spirit and of course
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  Sexual sin is just one area that I'm talking
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  about where you're unequally over one person
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  sees fornication and adultery Okay, and another
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  person doesn't another person says no, I walk
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  with the Lord. I really don't Want to go this
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  path However, it also could be a case where one
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  person believes in other behaviors that when
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  you become a Christian are Acceptable like what
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  like say lying? Lying is another Sin, right lies
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  come from the father of lies one person thinks
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  it's okay to lie and another person says no I
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  don't want to hamper the Holy Spirit in my life.
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  I want to hear from God. I don't want to do that
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  So when we think big picture and we think about
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  our salvation, we don't want to be in positions
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  where we're jeopardizing it, right? We're not
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  sitting repeatedly doing the same things over
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  and over again to have a reprobate mind. And
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  when we think about being unequally yoked, we
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  can have one person here who probably doesn't
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  mind doing this sinning and thinks it's just
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  a part of life. This is the world we live in.
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  And another person says, no, I care more about
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  my relationship with the Lord. Other things that
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  can help you to see whether you're equally yoked
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  or not is that what are you talking about? What
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  are you thinking about? Is there a struggle to
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  communicate? Is this person, it can be even female
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  to female, always acting caddy, different types
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  of immature behaviors, and this could be male
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  to male, male to female. Does immaturity exist?
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  Is there a case where someone is behaving in
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  a retaliatory manner, a disrespectful manner?
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  These are signs, red flags to say, hey, this
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  is unequally yoked. Well, we spent a few moments
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  on that and this is kind of all I have for you
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  this week. We're going to return to this subject
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  matter again because it's really important to
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  understand when you are in relationships that
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  are unbalanced and you're essentially just not
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  seeing eye to eye on certain precepts that are
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  godly precepts even. With that being said, that's
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  all I have for you again this week. And until
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  the next time, I wish you all a good week. We
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  again will be returning to the subject matter
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  on being unequally yoked because it's something
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  very important for all believers to understand
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  and know. Have a great week.