Good Day to you. Todays Fresh Manna. Go Deep to Grow Up!- 26 (11.8.14) (A New Series of studies to help you grow spiritually) Separation & Sectarianism (2) ***************************** 2 Corinthians 6:17. Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you Before he was martyred Lucian of Antyxth was asked where he came from. He replied, I am a Christian. He was then asked what his business was and who his family were, to which he again answered, I am a Christian. Discussing this fourth-century confrontation L. E. Maxwell says, To St. Lucian, Christ was all, whether of country, of occupation, or of family. How revolutionary is the cross! It revolutionizes all our relationships, toward God, toward ourselves, toward others, toward all. Once the cross lays hold upon the Christian, he realizes how completely unhinged he has become from the whole of this present world. The old life, the old world, the old ways and relationships-all are past. That is true separation, a practical expression of 2 Corinthians 5. 17: If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (creation): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. The Doctrine of Separation Separation is the human side of sanctification which concerns the believers position as set apart from the world, condition as holy in the world, and glorification as translated from the world at a time still future. The new creation takes away unbelief and corruption and replaces it with faith and holiness. The doctrine of separation tells us that the sanctified believer, in the sight of God, no longer of the world and set apart as holy before Him, cannot find satisfaction or fulfilment in the things of a world that crucified the Lord of glory. In fact they are abhorrent to those whom God has redeemed, whom God has made His own, Gal. 6. 14, 15, and who now can never be separated from Him, Rom. 8. 35-39. Amen (to be contd) (>> Next: The Teaching of Paul)
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