Yoke Yourself Not with Sinners

Exodus 34:12-14, ‘“…Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”’ It has been said that one rotten apple, spoils a whole basket. Does this mean that if you find a rotten apple in a basket then the whole basket should be thrown out as bad? No! but if you let the bad apple remain in that basket, sure enough, the other apples will become bad as the bacteria in the bad apple spread to the other apples. This is the case with Christians, if you are a Christian and you partner with unbelievers, you live a life of compromise for the sake of the feelings of unbelievers, trying to please everyone at the expense of the truth, sure enough their unbelief is sure to creep on into your heart. You will find yourself making excuses so as to fit in and belong. That is why the LORD through Paul warns us not to yoke ourselves with unbelievers just as the Israelites were warned not to make treaty with those that they would find living in the Promised Land. They did not listen and sure enough, their hearts hardened toward the God who had brought them out of slavery in Egypt and had given them a share in their inheritance, and they began to worship the false gods. And so will the Christians who think highly of themselves to be wise and able in their own eyes, they who have been freed from the slavery of sin through the Mighty blood of Jesus and given a share in their inheritance in Christ as Children of God, they will stumble and fall from the love and fellowship of God, if they live a life that