Come out from among them and be separate

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We are to separate ourselves from evil. We still love people in society. We just don’t take part in evil. However, Christians often get completely backwards.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

We are to separate ourselves from evil. We still love the people in the society. We just don’t take part in the evil.

However, Christians often get this backwards. Completely backwards.

Here are a few examples:

Example 1. In the United States, racism is common among believers. That despite racists being the bad guys in the Bible.

Example 2. Some Christians are antisemites. That despite antisemites being the bad guys in the Bible.

Example 3. Many Christians are sexist. Some are mysogynist. That despite the fact that there were female prophets in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. Frankly, gender bias is hostile to Jesus Christ.

Example 4. In recent years, many Christians choose a lie instead of the Truth.

In all three examples, pastors and leaders and denominations are effectively doing nothing in the public sphere. They are not stopping the embrace of evil by Christians.

Sometimes the only recourse for an individual is to leave a particular denomination. The person shake the denomination’s dust from their feet and move on.

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Numbers 16:21. Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!

Numbers 16:26. He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

Numbers 16:45. Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

Isaiah 52:11. Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry the LORD’s vessels.

Jeremiah 15:17. I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

2 Corinthians 6:17. Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.”

Revelation 18:4. I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

 

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