True Friendship

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kip-s

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True friendship is mutualistic, in the sense that it ought to benefit both (or all the ) people involved.

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?"~2 Corinthians 6:14

To further explain this in simple English, there is no good relationship that can develop between palm oil and a white garment? It doesn't matter how white a garment is, it only takes a little drop of palm oil to mess it all up. More so, the Saddest thing is that the relationship is rather symbiotic than mutualistic, in the sense that it's the white garment that always suffer loss.

Believers, in the above explanation, we are the white garment, the unbelievers are represented with the palm oil. Being equally yoked with unbelievers will stain our testimony.

Let us beware!
 
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shirley

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i agree wth you but shouldnt we mentor the unbeliever before we have nothing to do wth them ? and a true friend forgives
 
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kip-s

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I'm not talking about not mentoring them. Jesus in the book of Matthew gave the great commission that we should preach the gospel, of course that will be mentoring them. However ma'am, if you read the verse I quoted above, you will see that itself says we should not be in friendship with the world, just like many other verses in the Bible. There is a very thick line between mentoring the world, that is, telling the world about the gospel of Christ and being yoked with them. Why will you want to be in league with an enemy that will eventually make a mess of your testimony?

I hope you understand what this means. Let the Word of God speak to your heart. May God open our hearts to understand the truth in His Word.
 
tribesman

tribesman

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It is written:
Prov.17

[17] A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
[18] A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

Prov.18

[24] A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother

Prov.27

[5] Open rebuke is better than secret love.
[6] Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
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John.15

[13] Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
[14] Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
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