05/19/23 BIBLICAL SEPARATION

05/19/23 BIBLICAL SEPARATION

For those who have been led astray by the Liberal lie: American, "Separation of Church and State," actually means, KEEPING THE STATE OUT OF THE CHURCH, not the other way around. However, there is so much of the WORLD in today's American Church, and the fact that every profane religion in the world is mistakenly thought to be the CHURCH, that now the phrase does not mean anything at all, much less the truth of the matter.

This is why God tells believers to come out from among the unbelievers and be separate.
2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people."
17 Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you."
18 "I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."
7:1
1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 

This does not mean we leave the physical world, but rather we separate our selves from the worldly worldview, the anti-spiritual worldview, the devilish worldview, the carnal worldview.

Jesus prayed to the Father for believers.John 17:13-18
13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 

This means that we view things from God's perspective, we renounce and denounce the worldliness of our past, embrace the Divine and Biblical perspective, pursue life with clean hands (regenerated life) and a pure heart (entirely sanctified heart). 

James 4:7-8
7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.