‘IS IT RIGHT FOR A CHRISTIAN TO DATE OR MARRY AN UNBELIEVER?’ Part 2

[Genesis 24:1-4], Abraham didn’t want his son marrying an unbeliever. God never wanted unbelievers married to believers. Woe to you ministers who take tithe according to the principles of Abraham but because an unbeliever is getting married to a believer you keep quiet and let it be. [Genesis 27:46 – Genesis 28], Rebecca was of the nation of God. When Jesus was to come, God was sensitive with the genealogy He was to come from. We see Canaanites being rejected by God because there is a seed that God wanted, which should be from His nation and nowhere else. He knew that whatever decision they take would affect Jesus. If you marry an unbeliever what are you doing to your seed? God was sensitive about the seed but you are not sensitive about your seed. People always say that this is quoted in the Old Testament, but get this if there is a crack in the wall and we don’t know what caused it we go and check the foundation.

Since it is hard for you to believe in the New Testament then let’s rather go to the shadow – the foundation (Old Testament). [Deuteronomy 7:3], it is not the issue of women only but men as well. It is about believe. The issue here is that an unbeliever can turn you from worshipping Him. He is a jealous God. The instruction is not to the daughter and the son but it is to the parents. So if you as a spiritual father allow your spiritual sons and daughters to marry unbelievers who can turn them from worshipping God, He will destroy you. No one had wisdom like Solomon except Christ. Half of the people today do not even have half of the wisdom that Solomon had. [1 Kings 11:1-3], God never wanted these women because they were unbelievers. God went to Solomon and asked Him what he wants, and was granted wisdom yet he still fell. When did you see God face to face? Yet you have already gambled with unbelievers. Solomon failed. Some of you might say you are better because you have Christ and you’ll gamble. Solomon failed in the things of the flesh. God doesn’t want you to be with unbelievers or people who are not of His nation.

I showed you that it is not possible for a woman to wash a man and further spoke about men who had the power to wash women and yet they failed. Today we have the story of Jezebel because of Ahab who married an unbeliever. They tried and failed. Whatever you are doing, you are writing a book. Many ministers fail because they cover up their biological children, they no longer rebuke or teach the truth because of their children’s mistakes. The biggest problem that Eli had was not being able to rebuke or reprimand his children. His fall was his sons. You cover nonsense it will uncover you. God chose Samuel while Eli was there because he was disqualified. Do not cover-up nonsense. Don’t let your love cloud you.

[1 Kings 16 – 1 Kings 19], any married couple who is in the world and are not born again, they do not love each other but they desire each other. There is no peace when you don’t know Jesus. Peace comes with Jesus, so let’s not camouflage. John walked with Jesus and told Jesus that Mary is His mother – by so doing he was demoting himself. When Jesus ministered He never called Mary ‘mother’ but He called her ‘woman’. If you listen to anyone who doesn’t speak the language of the Father you are listening to the wrong voice. No one must interfere with spiritual things. [Proverbs 31:29 – 30], “Charm and grace are deceptive, and [superficial] beauty is vain, But a woman who fears the Lord [reverently worshiping, obeying, serving, and trusting Him with awe-filled respect], she shall be praised.” This verse sums up the whole Proverbs 31. Charm is not in appearance only but it is also on how you react. Someone can come and try to charm you with Proverbs 31. When Adam said the bone of my bones, he was praising Eve.

[2 Corinthians 6:14], this verse is not talking about marrying an unbeliever but it is talking about fellowship. Let’s be realistic, how is it that I am allowed to marry an unbeliever but I can’t be friends or equally yoked with unbelievers? God was dealing with small things before He could go to marriage. [1 Corinthians 7:30 – 39], is talking about marriage here. Marriage can make you lose focus on the things of God while you are already believers, so what more when you are married to an unbeliever? Hence Paul says in verse 27, ‘Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you unmarried? Do not seek a wife’. Verse 39, “A wife is bound [to her husband by law] as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only [provided that he too is] in the Lord” this is a serious instruction, and we can’t ignore that it is only in the Lord that we are allowed to marry.

In the Old Testament, the families would make arrangements for their children to marry each other. Mary and Joseph grew up knowing that they will marry each other – they were not in courtship. So Paul was solving a situation where two people are betrothed to each other, when the other gets born again he is allowed to break the engagement, and if they want to continue with the marriage they can continue because it was their culture then. [1 Corinthians 9:5], why does he emphasize that the woman has to be a believer? These people were getting married to believing wives. This is the way they were doing things. [1 Corinthians 11:2-7], this scripture will teach you something about marriage. Christ is not the head of someone who doesn’t believe but He is the head of a believing man. There is a protocol, you can’t go to an earthly husband and say he is your head while he doesn’t have a head. Verse 4, men must reveal Christ at all times so what is your husband revealing if he is an unbeliever? The duty of the man is to uncover Christ so that the woman can cover the man.

If you marry an unbeliever who is his head? An unbeliever has another god. Is your husband the image and reflection of the glory of God? So which glory do they have if they are not born again? Have we thought about the spiritual impact it has to marry an unbeliever? [Ephesians 5:21-], the one who rules can never submit. When you submit under them without the Lord it is no longer submission but they are ruling over you. The sole purpose of marriage is God. If your husband is not a believer then what are you? Because marriage is between Christ and the church. Every party in marriage must play their part. The woman must be the church and the husband must be Christ. Verse 26, if he can’t cleanse you, he can’t be your husband. I cleanse my wife by being Holy as He is Holy, the way I live cleanses her. The way your husband lives cleanses you, he doesn’t have to open scripture and preach to you but by him being able to obey God he cleanses you. They cleanse you in the way they live.

Anyone who is dating an unbeliever or planning to marry an unbeliever it is not love, but desire. Someone not minding you going to church doesn’t mean they approve what you do. Today he might understand your Christ, but when his family comes and tell him about rituals he falls for it. People who do not believe in anything are dangerous. Circumstances can easily change him. Do not gamble with your soul. I didn’t touch issues of him cheating on you, but I spoke about verses only. If your spouse cheats on you, when you got married to an unbeliever knowingly so then you have no right to leave them. The devil can do anything with an unbeliever because they are still in darkness.

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