Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1253 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Don't Team Up With Unbelievers - Ask Gramps


Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.  Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.  Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1253 of our Trek and time for our Philosophy Friday series.  Each Friday, we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy.  As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time where we can ‘Ask Gramps.’   Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, this is not possible.  No matter how old we are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask dad or gramps questions about life in many areas.

We may mix it up a bit on our Friday episodes, but will strive to keep them down to earth and enjoyable.   If you have any questions that you would like to ask Gramps, please email them to guthrie@wisdom-trek.com

So the question for this week is:

“Hey Gramps, I have heard that as a Christ-follower, we should not marry or become business partners with people who are not Christ-followers.  Is it really that important as long as you have other values and life outlook that is important to each other? 
Don’t Team Up With Unbelievers
The short answer is, it is a big deal, and very important.  From the very beginning of creation, it was a big deal.  We are created to be bearers of God’s image to all humanity as we are tasked with restoring His kingdom throughout the world.  How can we restore God’s kingdom if our marriage or business partners are not of the same mind spiritually?

It was a big deal to Abraham that his son married in the faith as we read in Genesis 24:3 Swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.

It should be a big deal today for anyone that is contemplating either marriage or business partnership.  The New Testament carries this explicit warning in 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said:

“I will live in them
and walk among them.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
Therefore, come out from among unbelievers,
and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord.
Don’t touch their filthy things,
and I will welcome you.
And I will be your Father,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.

These words that the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth are pretty stern words that we need to heed.   You may be thinking, my fiancé, or potential business partner, are good people, they shouldn’t be called wicked or filthy things.  They may indeed be upright people with great integrity, but unless they are Christ-followers, they are not in God’s sight.  God is the standard for righteousness, not humans. Paula, my wife of over 40 years, and I were both Christ-followers before we were married with similar church backgrounds.