"Do not be yoked with unbelievers". We need to appreciate the difference between believers and unbelievers. When we read "righteousness and wickedness" we read this as "goody goody two shoes" and "unbelievably bad", and can react against it, thinking it is making us out to be self-righteous and superior. This is not so. We think we are autonomous, but the truth is we are not, We are either in the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light, we are either serving God or serving Satan, whether we admit it or not. And the one that we serve influences our life in a deeper way than we admit.
So if we are yoked to an unbeliever then we are subjecting ourselves to influence from Satan. Believing in Jesus is not just a matter of accepting one set of ideas as against another set, or of adding some ideas to what we already believe. It is about a whole new relationship, a whole new life. It cannot be bolted on to our old life, nor can we bolt things on to it.
So we are to be completely committed to Christ.
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