COMMENTARY:

Many Christians falsely assume they must cut off all contact with unbelievers, and only associate with other believers to avoid being unequally yoked with them. This is not true, as God expects all believers to minister to the lost, and do their best to lead them to the Lord Jesus Christ.

While righteousness and unrighteousness can never blend into something acceptable to God, nor can light and darkness ever blend in this manner, we need to co-exist with and love the unsaved.

As Christians, we need to be able to live an overcoming life before the lost and minister to them on their own turf as necessary. If we never set foot into the presence of the lost, we have wasted an opportunity to lead a sinner to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus and His disciples were called sinners, because they fellowshiped and ministered to sinners. Jesus allowed harlots and other sinners into His house and received better treatment from some of them, than He did from His own followers.

Mark 2:15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.

Luke 7:37:And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

The key is to be able to be in the presence of sinners, WITHOUT partaking of their sins. You can minister to sinners, without being "yoked" to them. Don't marry an unbeliever, or go into business with an unbeliever, etc., as that WOULD establish an "unequal yoke" between you and them. The scriptures tell us how to approach this issue, without getting into trouble in the presence of worldly people, and in worldly situations:

1 Corinthians 5 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

Witness to the lost when and where ever you may meet them, and God will be pleased. The only people God tells us NOT to associate with are those who live in open sin, yet profess to be believers in-Christ:

1 Corinthians 5:11: But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Need forgiveness for your sins? If so, you can repent of your sins, and receive Jesus Christ as both Lord and Saviour. The gospel of salvation is simple, and it clearly tells us how sinners can be made into a "new-creation" in-Christ:

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