BRETHREN, you are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.
Don't only go...Rather let’s BE the church. A church is an ek-klesia, a called out assembly. We are called to be separated in our hearts from desires to the world, unto Christ. As the Lord said, “they are not of the world even as I am not of the world (ek- tou kosmou). The ek-klesia is called ek- from- tou kosmou- the world. When we do this we are promised an intimacy with God,” I will be a father unto you...” Not that God isn’t our Father, but when we run to His embrace we are no longer like the prodigal, dead to Him.
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