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Separation - to what extreme

Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by Salty, Jun 29, 2019.

  1. Salty

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    From another Thread:
    Could you explain by what you mean by separation?

    Do you refuse to shop at a grocery store that sells booze
    Do you refuse to have any conversation other than giving the Roman road
    Do you only listen to Christian radio
    Do you refuse to have a TV
    Do you......

    So what separation do you practice?
     
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    No, the grocery store I frequent sells booze, but thanks be to God, I no longer buy it. God changed my want-to in 1966.
    No, I do not refuse to have conversation other than giving the Roman road. I worked in the secular, so---you figure it out.
    No, I do not only listen to Christian radio.
    No, I do not refuse to have a TV. But I do, under conviction of the Holy Spirit, have limits concerning what I view.

    Additionally, I have not paid to enter a movie theater to watch a Hollywood type production since 1966.

    I attempt to separate myself from the world is best described with the following text and verses of scripture.

    C. H. Spurgeon - Jerusalem's broad wall

    From the evening reading of 20th August in Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening"

    "And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall" (Nehemiah 3:8).

    CITIES well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory. The New Jerusalem must, in like manner, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of nonconformity to the world, and separation from its customs and spirit. The tendency of these days is to break down the holy barrier, and make the distinction between the church and the world merely nominal. Professors are no longer strict and Puritanical, questionable literature is read on all hands, frivolous pastimes are currently indulged, and a general laxity threatens to deprive the Lord's peculiar people of those sacred singularities which separate them from sinners. It will be an ill day for the church and the world when the proposed amalgamation shall be complete, and the sons of God and the daughters of men shall be as one: then shall another deluge of wrath be ushered in. Beloved reader, be it your aim in heart, in word, in dress, in action to maintain the broad wall, remembering that the friendship of this world is enmity against God.

    The broad wall afforded a pleasant place of resort for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, from which they could command prospects of the surrounding country. This reminds us of the Lord's exceeding broad commandments, in which we walk at liberty in communion with Jesus, overlooking the scenes of earth, and looking out towards the glories of heaven. Separated from the world, and denying ourselves all ungodliness and fleshly lusts, we are nevertheless not in prison, nor restricted within narrow bounds; nay, we walk at liberty, because we keep His precepts. Come, reader, this evening walk with God in His statutes. As friend met friend upon the city wall, so meet thou thy God in the way of holy prayer and meditation. The bulwarks of salvation thou hast a right to traverse, for thou art a freeman of the royal burgh, a citizen of the metropolis of the universe.
    Reference
    “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings by C. H. Spurgeon”, Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1953. p 467.

    2Cr 6:14 KJV - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

    2Cr 6:15 KJV - And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

    2Cr 6:16 KJV - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    2Cr 6:17 KJV - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

    1Ti 6:3 KJV - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

    1Ti 6:4 KJV - He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

    1Ti 6:5 KJV - Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

    2Jo 1:9 KJV - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

    2Jo 1:10 KJV - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed:

    2Th 3:6 KJV Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

    Rev 18:4 KJV - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

    2Ti 3:1 KJV - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

    2Ti 3:2 KJV - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

    2Ti 3:3 KJV - Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

    2Ti 3:4 KJV - Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

    2Ti 3:5 KJV - Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
     
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