Gods word says: Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye ***separate says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. 2 Cor.6:17-18 ***(1) Separation in Scripture is twofold: a. from whatever is contrary to the mind of God; and b. unto God Himself. The underlying principle is that in a moral universe it is impossible for God fully to bless and use His children who are in compromise or complicity with evil. (2) Separation from evil implies: a. separation in desire, motive, and act, from the world, in the ethically bad sense of this present world system (Rev.13:8) and; b. separation from false teachers, who are described as being vessels...to dishonor (2 Tim.2:20-21; 2 Jn.9-11). (3) Separation is not from contact with evil in the world or the church, but from complicity with and conformity to it. and (4) the reward of separation is the full manifestation of the divine fatherhood; unhindered communion and worship (Heb.13:13-15), and fruitful service, as world conformity involves the loss of these, though not of salvation. Here, as in all else, Christ is the model. He was Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and yet He was in such contact with them for their salvation that the Pharisees, who illustrate the mechanical and ascetic conception of separation, judged Him as having lost His Nazirite character.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:17:14 +0000
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