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QUESTION 7:
Should a saved person marry an unsaved person, and should God's Minister marry them?

ANSWER:
Mixed marriages like mixed multitudes among God's people is never the mind of God. One source of the trouble and death amongst Israel in their wilderness journeys, was a "mixed multitude went up from Egypt." In Numbers 11:4, the same multitude "fell a lusting." They were to be a "separated people." "I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people" Leviticus 20:24. The reason for this is given in Leviticus 20:26, "and ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine." He warned them in Deuteronomy 7:3 and Joshua 23:12, but they did not obey and it always brought the judgment of God upon them. Ezra 10:2-3 is a confession of some that had "taken strange wives of the people of the land." In "Nehemiah 13:23-25, it tells of a curse pronounced upon them for it.

In the New Testament we have a clear command, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers" 2 Corinthians 6:14. The marriage is the most binding one. "The wife is bound to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband be dead she is at liberty to marry to whom she will, only in the Lord." 1 Corinthians 7:39. For any minister to marry such, this would be contrary to God's clear command and His will. They may rightly marry two unsaved or two saved, but not otherwise. Christian people should marry those of the same kind.

Dear Reader, the most important thing for you is to make sure that you are saved. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31.

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