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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 12, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 40.

1573.—Withdrawing from the Disorderly.

In what way shall we withdraw from every brother that walketh disorderly, and where is the text found? M. H.

The text is found in 2 Thess. 3:6. But as to just how to deal with each and every case it would be as impossible to give directions as it would for a physician to give specific directions for treating every case. The words of the apostle are to the church, not to individuals as such. Study in this connection Rom. 2:1–3; Matt. 18:15–22; Romans 14; 1 Corinthians 5; Rom. 16:17; 2 Thess. 3:14. Seek God for the wisdom which He is willing to give (James 1:5–7), and pursue such a course as shall witness for God and win the sinning soul if possible.

1574.—“Unequally Yoked Together.” 2 Cor. 6:14.

Does 2 Cor. 6:14 mean “yoked by marriage”? Does it have reference to the yoke spoken of in Matt. 11:29, 30? Unequally in what way?

It means a voluntary yoking up with unbelievers in any way that will compromise the faith of the Christian or restrain his freedom to serve or worship God. Certainly, from all God’s dealings with His people in the past, and from the fact that marriage is the closest earthly relation known, the text must include marriage with unbelievers. The last question is answered in the first. There are certain things which we can do with unbelievers in helping them and others which do not involve a compromise of faith. In these things God’s Spirit must guide. They who yoke up with Christ Jesus must break fellowship with the Master when they yoke up with wickedness or sin of any sort.