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There are a great
many Christians who consider themselves separated. They wouldn’t think of
doing this or of doing that. Yet they gossip and have the meanest tongues,
never realizing that that very thing is worldly and unclean. Or they go in for
the latest in dress or for gluttony and yet consider themselves to be separate
from worldliness. I don’t mean to sit in judgment—and we ought not
to sit in judgment on each other—yet I feel I must point out these things
because we need to be very, very careful. It is very easy to talk about the
things of God, to claim the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, to say we love Him, to
consider ourselves separated unto Him, and still not in reality be separate
from the world and separated unto Him.
God says,
“Come out from among them, and be ye separate, … and touch not the
unclean thing.” Don’t be a Christian unless you mean it.
Don’t say that Jesus satisfies you if He is not really satisfying you.
This is what Paul is talking about.
Then there is this
glorious promise: “And I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” You will
be the kind of son or daughter who brings honor to the Father.
A man told me about
his boy going away to college. The boy had become alienated from his dad. He
was still the man’s son, but the father said to me, “I can’t
deal with him as I would like to as a father. I simply can’t talk to him
the way I’d like to as a father.” This is what God is saying here.
If you are a
believer in Jesus Christ, God is always your Father. Don’t forget that.
What God is saying here is that He would like to act like a Father to you. He
would like to treat you as a son. If you are going off into worldliness, if you
don’t mean what you say, if you are hypocritical in your life, then you
can be sure of one thing: God the Father will take you to His woodshed. My
friend, God does not want to be everlastingly taking you to the woodshed. That
is why He asks you to come out from among them, to be separate, not to touch the
unclean thing. Then God can have an intimate relationship with you as a Father
with a son.
God Bless
Bill
Liniewicz
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Open your heart to
Jesus Christ and the absolute truth of the Word of God, please read the
info on this link:
[1]McGee,
J. Vernon, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon
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