Terminator Genes 3

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (2Corinthians 6: 14 – 16)

Over the years, these verses have been used to warn believers against getting married to unbelievers.

Though it also applies there, I feel we have overlooked the graver warning inherent therein.

The worst part is that it will ultimately end in marriage somewhere down the line.

And I will start with our godly friend, Jehoshaphat.

Though he didn’t get married to the wicked, his association with them, however innocent it was, ended up having his son getting married to them.

Allow me to explain.

It is in the nature of friends or partners to spend an inordinate amount of time together since they must be doing many things together.

As a result, their children will interact even more as they will be accompanying their parents to those places.

It does not take much imagination to know that those children will connect with each other in deeper levels than their parents could ever do. Meaning they will have no blinders in their relationships as their parents have in their interaction.

Faith to them simply becomes a distinction, an interesting and pleasant and attractive variety. It will bring color to the dull existence of the single-colored fabric of the faith of their fathers.

However dogmatic you could be, it will be impossible to warn your children against the children of your heathen friend or partner since it will be an act of self-condemnation on your part.

The termination gene is not therefore introduced at marriage. It is consummated there, long after it has been allowed to thrive ‘innocently’.

That is what the Bible is warning us against in that verse.

And you realise it was the same way with Israel when they were getting into the Promised Land.

They were ordered to eliminate the Canaanite and never seek their peace for that single reason.

Their presence would defile the purity of their worship since in a relationship, even a relationship between enemies, will have an impact on both parties.

Or do you not know that your enemy is your most loyal follower, though he will be following with the intent of being the first to witness your fall?

Have you realised that break away churches and ministers become clones of the churches and ministries they acrimoniously left?

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. (Deuteronomy 12:30)

Israel failed because they did not think it was vital to eliminate the people they were to displace. Because they then started becoming friends in little ways until they mated with their gods and were punished for that.

Saul was rejected because he refused to clear everything and everybody as god had said because what remained had the capacity to corrupt them.

How radical is your obedience in the face of innocent friends? How innocent are you amidst ministers that question your level of obedience?