Pickled Beets And Apples

In marriage a man and woman are so closely joined that they become “one flesh,” which involves spiritual as well as physical oneness. In marriage God brings a husband and wife together in a unique physical and spiritual bond that reaches to the very depths of their souls. As God designed it, marriage is to be the welding of two people together into one unit, the blending of two minds, two wills, two sets of emotions, two spirits. It is a bond the Lord intends to be indissoluble as long as both partners are alive. The Lord created sex and procreation to be the fullest expression of that oneness, and the intimacies of marriage are not to be shared with any other human being.

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Low-fat/cal, Veggies	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

16	oz	1 jar pickled beets
		undrained
1	t	Lemon juice
1/8	t	Ground cloves
1		size tart apples
		Thin lemon slices for
		granish OPTIONAL

INSTRUCTIONS

Pour the beets with their liquid into a small bowl.  Stir in the lemon
juice and the cloves.  Quarter, core and peel the apple.  Thinly  slice
the apple into the bowl with the beet mixture.  Let the  apple-beet
mixture stand at room temperature until serving time.  If  you wish,
garnish the apple-beet mixture with thin lemon juice.  Source:
Best-Ever Recipes, Volume III, Family Circle  Brought to you and yours
via Nancy O'Brion and her Meal-Master.  Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3
#235  Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:58:11 -0500  From:
pickell@cyberspc.mb.ca (S.Pickell)

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 77 Calories From Fat: 1 Total Fat: <1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 299.7mg Potassium: 185.1mg Carbohydrates: 19.6g Fiber: 3g Sugar: 15.8g Protein: <1g

So what did the Holy Spirit intend by His command not to be bound together with unbelievers? Bound together translates a participial form of the verb heterozugeo, which means, “to be unequally yoked.” Paul drew his analogy from Deuteronomy 22:10, where the Mosaic Law commanded the Israelites, “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.” Those two animals do not have the same nature, gait, or strength. Therefore it would be impossible for such a mismatched pair to plow together effectively. Nothing in the context would lead to the idea that he is referring to earthy issues of human endeavors. In Paul’s analogy, believers and unbelievers are two different breeds and cannot work together in the spiritual realm. He called for separation in matters of the work of God, since such cooperation for spiritual benefit is impossible. The false teachers were eager to blend the people of God with the pagan worshipers, because that hinders the gospel. That is what this text forbids.

John MacArthur