The Second Legal Right: Tied to Another
"Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, 'The two will become one flesh.'" — 1 Corinthians 6:16
A Different Kind of Right
The second type of legal right is what is known as an unholy soul tie.
The term itself is not in the Bible. It is inferred — but in practical, real-life experience, its existence becomes unmistakable to anyone who works through this material with people.
An unholy soul tie is a spiritual connection formed between you and another person when sin is committed between you.
That connection functions as a doorway. It allows an unholy spirit operating through the other person to gain a legal right to you as well.
Why This Category Is Necessary
You might reasonably ask why this needs to be separate from activity sin. If you sinned with someone, why is repenting of the sin not sufficient?
Because — and this is the detail that unlocks a great many stuck cases:
Even if you repent of the sin you committed with the other person, thereby cancelling that sin's legal right, the unholy soul tie remains as a separate legal right until you break it as well.
Two distinct things were created by one act. The sin, and the connection. Repentance addresses the first. It does not address the second.
This is exactly why so many thorough, sincere people repent of everything they can identify, see genuine improvement, and are still not free of something. They dealt with the sins. They never broke the ties.
And unholy soul ties remain in force for as long as you live — even if the other person has died.
Where They Come From
Sexual sin always creates one. "The two will become one flesh" is not poetry about intimacy; it is a statement about what is formed.
But the category is wider. Any sin committed between you and another person can form a tie. Using drugs with someone. Buying drugs from someone. Committing a crime together. Deep participation in something occult with others.
And — this is the part that matters most and will be treated fully in the next lessons — the sin does not have to be consensual. The only thing required is the presence of sin between you and someone else.
Which means what was done to you can have formed one.
Point to Ponder
One act created two things. Repentance addresses one of them. The other has to be broken separately.
Verse to Remember
"Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, 'The two will become one flesh.'" — 1 Corinthians 6:16
Question to Consider
Have I repented thoroughly of things and still felt connected to someone I wanted to be free of?
Today's Practice
Begin your soul tie list. This is different from your sin list, and you need both.
Write down every person with whom sin has occurred between you — regardless of who initiated it, who was at fault, or whether you consented.
Sexual partners. All of them. People you used drugs or alcohol with, or bought from. People you committed crimes or deceptions with. People you participated in occult activity with. People who abused you — physically, sexually, emotionally. This is not your sin. The tie may exist anyway. People who controlled you — a manipulative partner, a domineering leader, a coercive parent.
Include people who have died. Death does not dissolve these.
Do not break any ties yet. The next lessons will show you how, and doing it carelessly often produces a false sense of completion that has to be redone.
Today: build the list.
Prayer
Father, I have repented of things and still felt bound to people I wanted to be free of.
If something was formed between me and another person that repentance alone did not break, show me.
Bring every name to my mind — the ones I chose and the ones I did not, the living and the dead, the ones I would rather not think about at all.
I want every connection that is not from You severed. Prepare me for that. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
They repented of everything they could name and were still not free. They never broke the ties.