Separateness

God is a God of separateness. Those who know the Lord, because of His nature, are called out to be separate (holy) and set aside for God's purposes.

For the people in the "emergent church" whose lives look no different nor their speech sounds any different from the people who do not know Jesus as savior and Lord (boss), let me give you a short and simple concept from the Bible that shows God is a God of separateness.

God separated the darkness from the light.
God separated the day from the night.
God separated the land from the sea.
God separated the man from the woman.
God separated the man and woman from the Garden.
God separated the offering which was received from the offering which was not.
God separated the language (at the Tower of Babel).
God separated the father (Abraham) from his kinsman.
God separated the holy from the profane.
God separated his children from the idolaters.
God separated out a people for Himself (Israel)
God separated his land out from the nations (Israel).
God separated the Sabbath from the week.
God separated the Most Holy Place from the holy place.
God separated the court of the Gentiles from the inner courts.
God separated the ways of the gentiles from the ways of His people (through the Law, or Torah)
God separated the sins from His people (through Yeshua).
God separated the eternal destiny of those who follow Him-Heaven, from those who do not-hell.

definition of separate: disunited, to differenciate or discriminate the differences between, distinct.

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." (Matthew 10:34-39 NASB) (emphasis mine).

"Come out from among them and be ye separate", saith the Lord. 2 Corinthians 6:17.

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