When my daughter rides with me she is the passenger.
I’m the driver.
Kinda logical isn’t it?
She goes where I go.
I lead. She follows.
She is at the mercy of me because I’m the one who is in control of the car.
I have total influence over her.
This is an analogy for what Paul was talking about when he said,
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? – 2 Corinthians 6:14 (ESV)
You know the analogy don’t you? Seemingly every preacher who has ever
preached this text mentions something about two animals in a yoke. The
reason they say this is because that was exactly what Paul was referring
to.
Think of two oxen pulling a wagon while both of them are in a harness or yoke. When in the yoke, they are one. Paul was bringing to his audience what Moses brought to his back in the day when he said,
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. – Deuteronomy 22:10 (ESV)
Do not put up with it readily enough
The unequal yoke in this passage is a picture of someone who has
influence over another person. Paul is warning the Corinthian Christians
that if they do not stop and turn around from their evil unchristian
relationships that they are involved in, then the influence of those
ungodly relationships will take them where they do not want to go.
The entire letter to the Corinthians is Paul’s attempt to persuade
the Christians to make a break from evil influences. He knows they are
susceptible to the power that these influences can have over them. This
is where the yoke analogy is very helpful. Continue at Rick Thomas
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