Be Separate Kenneth Copeland 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 Were surrounded by a world which is ruled for the most part by Satan. How can we avoid getting caught up in it? How can we stand apart? Youll find the answer in John 17:17. There Jesus was speaking to the Father about all those who would believe on Him. Sanctify them through thy truth, He said. Thy word is truth. Sanctify means to separate unto. So Jesus was saying, Separate them by the Word. The Word separates! When you initially believed the Word of God, you were born again. You were separated spiritually from the kingdom of darkness and separated to the kingdom of Light. Now thats where a lot of people stop. They let the Word of God do its initial separating work and then go right on living like everybody else. Spiritually, theyre still separated from death. But physically and mentally, theyre up to their necks in it. Theyre poor. Theyre sick. Theyre worried. Theyre confused. Theyre upset. In other words, theyre just like everyone else in the world. But if youll give the Word of God first place in your life, it will continue to separate you from the poverty and the anxiety and the sickness and the hatred and the darkness of your old habitat. Theres something else that the Word of God will do for you too. It will not only separate you from the things of this world, it will separate you to the things of God. You cant simply separate yourself from any old destructive habit without separating yourself to something else. You cant turn away from the things of the world unless you turn to something stronger. Im telling you, you can scream and squall and kick the altar bench and everything else trying to get rid of the sin in your life. You can cry, Dear God, take this sin away from me. But all the begging in the world wont separate you from your sin. Its the Word that does it! Make a decision to give the Word first place in your life. Make it a quality decision, a decision from which there is no retreat. Lock into the Word and let the Word do its work. Let it separate you from the things of the world and to the things of God. Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 © 1992 Eagle Mountain International Church aka Kenneth Copeland Publications All rights reserved.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:00:01 +0000
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