Come Out From Among Them!

 

You would have to be very blind not to see what's happenning in society today! The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled every single day! We are living in the times of sorrows, the beggining of birth pains before the second coming of Jesus Christ to this earth. 

The Lord recently said to me twice, "Sodom and Gomorrah", and we all should know what the Lord was saying with that! This world, this country of America and millions of people who populate this earth are given over to false religions, hedonism, a reprobate and depraved mind, given over to the lusts of their flesh and thinking evil continually. Much as it was in the days of Noah, just as Jesus prophesied it would be in the end times!

The Lord also said to me, "The Stench Is Putrid", what this means is that the smell of evil coming up to the nostrils of God from sinful human beings and a corrupt earth is beyond stinking! 

Putrid means: (of organic matter) decaying or rotting and emitting a fetid smell.

Have you ever smelled the stench of a slaughterhouse? It's terrible! It fills the whole atmosphere surrounding it! You can smell it from miles away!

This is exactly why God calls us OUT of the world! He wants us to be cleansed in our souls, washed by the blood of Jesus, purged of dead works and evil thoughts in our mind. The Lord wants us to be completely separated, and set apart from this world and everything in it, the ideologies, the lifestyles, the entertainment. God wants us to be made into the image of Christ and become a NEW Creation in Him!

This is why Paul said in Romans 12:1-2

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

God wants His people to THINK differently, ACT differently and LIVE differently than those who are in and of this world! And how can this be possible while still living on this planet? By the power of HIS HOLY SPIRIT that's how!

John 15:18-19

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."

Those in the world end up hating real Christians because of the fruits of the Spirit in our souls, the presence of God that surrounds us and our holiness. Christians are called to be separate and to follow and obey the teachings of Jesus Christ, like "love your neighbor as yourself", "do unto others as you would have them do to you", "love your enemies". 

What true Christians can become is exactly what God intended for human beings to become in the beginning when He made them, and do you know what that is? To become LIKE HIM! Full of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Gentleness, Faithfullness, Righteousness, Holiness, Truthful, Merciful, Obedient, serving one another, sharing and caring for one another, helping one another, living together in perfect unity!

All of the above characteristics and fruits of the Spirit are attainable while we are ON this earth! Not when we all get to Heaven as the song says! We can become LIKE CHRIST right now! Jesus was our perfect example, if He could do it as a man who walked this earth, so can we!

2nd Corinthians 6:4-18

"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 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.” Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” “I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”

The Choice Is Yours!

In Christ Jesus,

Tyrone

Be Separated!

2nd Corinthians 6:17-18 

"Therefore “Come out from among them And be separated, says the Lord. And do not touch an unclean thing, And I will receive you.” “And I will be a Father to you, And you will be sons and daughters to Me, Says the Lord Almighty.”

So what does it really mean to 'come out from among them and 'be separated'?

Well I can tell you what it doesn't mean! It doesn't mean that as a follower of Jesus you withdraw yourself from humanity and go live inside a convent!

And it also doesn't mean that you build big buildings and congregate inside them on Sunday, while the rest of the week you look and act just like the world does!

The Greek definition of separated means:

873. aphorizo af-or-id'-zo from 575 and 3724; to set off by boundary, i.e. (figuratively) limit, exclude, appoint, etc.:--divide, separate, sever.

And who is our perfect example of one separated from the world? Jesus is of course!

Jesus was completely separated from the world, yet He could live in the world and co-exist with His creation. He was never ashamed of who He was and He never compromised the word of God!

The first century disciples were called out and separated by Jesus from the world.

John 15:18-19

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."

So the truth is, being chosen out of the world and becoming like Christ in all we say and do will inevitably cause the world to hate us! 

There are many today who talk about the love and compassion of Jesus, and surely He was full of those two fruits, but they forget what Jesus told His own brothers in John 7:7

"The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil."

Would it be any different for Jesus if He preached the same message and did the same ministry works He did in the first century, in the streets of America today? I think not!

James 4:4 Tells us: 

"Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

2nd Corinthians 6:14-16

"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 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.”

Are you trying to do what the world does to win the world? Are you hanging out with unbelievers thinking you can some how win them over for Christ? Don't you know that bad company corrupts good character!

It's not up to us to win or save the world! Only Jesus can save a persons soul! And only the Father can draw people to Christ!

In the first century church the believers were all together and the LORD ADDED to the church those who should be saved. The apostles and prophets were just instruments used by God to do His will and accomplish the works He prepared in advance for them to do.

It's God's will for those in Christ to bear fruits, to be holy, separated, co-laborers with Christ, and to enter His rest. 

In Jesus,

Tyrone