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" Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?
Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What doses a believer have
in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living
God. As God has said: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Therefore come out from them and be separate.’
These verses In Corinthians speaks it pretty clearly - that being close to sinful people, those loving sin- is
not what we should do, no matter who they are.. Relatives or stranger.
God does tell us also - to go out in the world and shine our light. And we do this every time we set foot out our front
door... To get to Christian places.. we need to pass evil, many times, and than we should speak to those whom ask about
Jesus.
People whom are truely looking for God.. will come to God, christians them selves.
But to go to worldly partys and/or become part of a siners sinfulness, there sinful life.... God saids-
NO, many times in the scriptures, for several different reasons.
. No matter how strong you think you are to stand- let's not be foolish and ignore God to 'Stay ye separate.'
I have also seen confessing Christians being accepting of others sinfulness, just because they don't
want to seem harsh or judgemental or/and jealous.
Use the word children of God... if it is wrong - say it is wrong for us as Christians, and be away with it, it
doses not matter what any person thinks , only what God thinks.
Obey God thy Holy people , so we can remain holy.
1 Corinthians 5: "But rather I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name
of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed or is and idolater, reviler, drunkard or robber--- not even to eat with
with such a one."
James 4 "Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself and enemy of God."
Do you get excited about doing worldly things or/and things with worldly people... behold ..... you may be making
yourself a enemy of God.
Another bible study.........
BE SEPARATE : (As Christians)
2 Corint. 6:14-17
" Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship
can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What doses a believer have in common with an
unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has
said: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore come
out from them and be separate.’
What a hard thing for people around us to accept sometimes, but for us Christians- it should be easy to be
separate…If we can not stand sin, why would we want to be around people sinning?
Being separate is not saying…. We are better, it is just saying- We belong to God,
and must do what God tells us to… and so it is pretty simple…….
Love everyone, be close to Christians , Run from evil. (Evil people/people doing evil/sinful
things). God demands this from his people , one reason is because
he knows we are only human and may fall into temptations, and wants us to resist that, the only way we can continue to do
his work (as we should always be doing) is to resist sin. Yes, God is stronger than Satan, but we can not stay close
to him and get his strength if our focus is not on him.
And- we are to glorify God in everything we do.
Things we should take little or no time at…………..
Bars, worldly Malls, Non-christian (non-believers/wicked) partys, Non-christian homes/places, etc.
Things we should go to often……
Homes of the searching, the House of the Lord (be with the Church), Help the needy/lonely, Christian homes/gatherings.
.. In anything we can glorify God.
Now God tells us also to not even associate (talk to) with those whom say they are Christians and yet do certain sins,
so we must also remember this. ….1 Corint.6:9-12
There is a verse in the word, that tells us not to forget to entertain strangers, and we should
if and how God leads us to , for God knows whom is open to him, and whom won't bring the devil into our homes.
John 3:20
Be Guided by God - his word.
WITNESSING:
John 12:46
We will be guided at times to witness to the unsaved, whom are opened to hearing.
But take Gods example in how we should witness, we should only gather with the unsaved
to witness., and be guided by God to who to witness to and where.
god does not usually send us alone, we must take another christian to stand strong, when
we are sent out to witness. Even Jesus always had his diciples with him.
To put it simply- the way to deal with people to honor and obey God is as such......
Christians - we should gather with , grow close to and do all we can for.
The lost/unsaved/wicked- we should witness to or Love from a far.
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