There was an old country song that had the lyrics: “Half of my blood is Cain’s blood, Half of my blood is Abel’s, One eye looks to Heaven, One eye looks for trouble.” While it may have been a popular song at the time, there is a flaw in this idea. To understand, let’s look at the Word.
Matthew 26:15 (KJV) And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
That is some strong language there when we see the word “covenanted.” The word “covenanted” in the Greek, means to set, weigh out, or establish a binding agreement. This carries massive weight here. Judas entered into a formal, binding contract with the religious authorities and the next verse says And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him (Matthew 26:16 KJV).
There is a valuable lesson here. We must be careful who we are in covenant with.
When you form an alliance with corruption, the contract will eventually force you to betray your own values, your family, your calling, and ultimately, Jesus Himself. The Apostle Paul wrote this to warn believers that trying to blend a covenant with Jesus while maintaining a covenant with the world’s corrupt systems is spiritually impossible. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils (1 Corinthians 10:21 KJV).
In the ancient world, sharing a cup or eating at someone’s table was not just a casual meal; it was a legal and relational covenant. To drink “the cup of the Lord” means you are fully committed to Jesus, sealed by His blood. To drink “the cup of devils” means participating in practices, mindsets, or alliances that honor dark, ungodly forces.
The Apostle James reinforces this point using even sharper language regarding this dual-covenant trap writing: Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God (James 4:4 KJV).
By using the word “adulterers,” James treats a covenant with the world as spiritual infidelity. Just as a marriage cannot survive if a spouse is in a covenant with someone else, our relationship with God demands total, exclusive loyalty.
You see we can’t be in half covenant. Just like we can’t be half married. We can’t claim to be Cain and Abel at the same time. We must not believe the common lie that culture tells us; that it is okay, or even normal, to live divided lives with one foot in the light and one foot in the dark.
Elijah called out the people saying How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him (1 Kings 18:21 KJV).
We must decide who we will be in covenant with. Paul would write: Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you (2 Corinthians 6:17 KJV).
So do inventory and check to make sure who you are in covenant with.
Joshua 24:15 (KJV) And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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