366 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 31 - Truth Personified - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 31 TRUTH PERSONIFIED - PART 2 Ephesians 4:4,5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism." (I Corinthians 12:13) We finished with verse 7 and the word "Truth" in our last lesson, and how Paul came only in the name of truth which is also the name of Christ. II Corinthians 6:8 I've discovered that I've missed so much in these Corinthians letters over the years. Now let's look at verse 8 for a moment. II Corinthians 6:8b Well Christ did. John 7:10-12 Come on over to Chapter 8 where we were in our last lesson concerning the word truth in verse 44. But let's go to verse 52. John 8:52,53 "Then said the Jews unto him, `Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my sayings, he shall never taste of death. 53. Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? Now verse 57. John 8:57 `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?'" Now back to II Corinthians Chapter 6, and verse 9. II Corinthians 6:9a "As unknown, and yet well known;..." II Corinthians 6:9b,10a II Corinthians 6:10b Revelation 3:17 Babes in Christ. II Corinthians 6:11,12 "O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, (I've been able to speak to you) our heart is enlarged. 12. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels." Now verse 13. II Corinthians 6:13 People don't like to talk about this anymore. Separation. II Corinthians 6:14a "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:" A lot of people think that ungodly means people down on skid row, or maybe in prostitution. Just because Paul calls them unbelievers doesn't mean that they're the pits. Always remember without faith it's impossible to please God. I'm not saying that we're talking about two diverse people. Paul says by inspiration that it won't work to be unequally yoked. So now when Paul says, "Be ye not unequally yoked," what does the word yoked immediately bring to mind? Now look at Deuteronomy Chapter 22 verse 9 and 10. And this was part of Israel's Law. "Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers." Deuteronomy 22:9,10 "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers (different) seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." Now can you picture an ox and a little donkey pulling a plow together? That poor little donkey would just be working his tail off to keep up with that big ox. Don't make a garment that was part wool and part linen. Why? I know that when most people look at this verse the only thing that they think about is an unequal marriage. Listen, it doesn't have to stop with marriage. It can enter into anything where people have to work together for a common cause. That again is being unequally yoked. But listen, the problems that people walk into with their eyes wide open thinking they can change the person somewhere down the road. Listen, people don't change. Except for what salvation does for people, people do not change. A lot of people enter into a marriage relationship and they're beat before they start. II Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Two distinct opposites.) Now verse 15. II Corinthians 6:15a The word Belial means something that is worthless. It's ridiculous isn't it? It's just as ridiculous as putting a little donkey beside an ox. II Corinthians 6:15b I can't imagine two such people living under the same roof. Now verse 16. II Corinthians 6:16 "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; (our physical human bodies) 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.'" So here's the conclusion in verse 17: II Corinthians 6:17a Because the Word of God was confined to the monasteries. The average man didn't have access to the Word of God during that time. Israel at times in her history lost contact with the Word of God and what happened? II Corinthians 6:17b Genesis 12:1a "Now the LORD had said, unto Abram, `Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house,...'" Separation. God couldn't deal with Abraham in the midst of Ur. Remember Joshua 24:2 said they worshipped other gods. Now let's look at Chapter 13 Genesis 13:8,9a separate thyself, I pray thee, from me:..." Genesis 13:14 "And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated..." It started from day one that God's people had to be separated from the world around them. Exodus 8:22 23. And I will put a division between my people and thy people; (speaking of Egypt) to morrow shall this sign be." What did God do? He separated them! #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible