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"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)
We're 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?
You'll 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 that's 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, they're still separated
from death. But physically and mentally, they're up to
their necks in it. They're poor. They're sick. They're
worried. They're confused. They're upset. In other
words, they're just like everyone else in the world.
But if you'll 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.
There's 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 can't simply separate yourself
from any old destructive habit without separating
yourself to something else. You can't turn away from the
things of the world unless you turn to something
stronger. I'm 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 won't separate you from your sin. It's 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 Study:
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
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