Seperation Procedure
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We have a wonderful and very specific command from God regarding our life on this planet and our relation to ungodly people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
God calls us to be holy.
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
The wortd Holy means seperate, set apart.
Now this coming out from amoung them and being seperate is our job, itys our responcibility.
but it is not always easy. Counterfit christianity has always been a problem and it can be diffiult to tell the true followers of Christ from the false.
They look the same, act the same, speak the same, pray the same.
This was the problem in Jesus parable of the sabotauged farmers field.
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
In this parable the farmers enemy sows tare seeds amoung the wheat seeds. The reason this is an act of sabotage is that tares completly mimmic wheat. It looks the same, grows the same, smells the same.
It is only at the harvest that the difference can be seen but by them the tares have already done thie damage - they have taken up ground, stollen water(recourses), they have taken up the farmers time, and they are worthless.
So cominmg out from amoung them, may sound simple but at times it difficult because it can be hard to identify who “them” are.
When this happens, another from of seperation takes place. Not at our hands but at God’s.
God seperates the wheat from the tares. The sheep from the goats.
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
This is God’s work.
he is the husbandman and he cuts off his vineyard, the church.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Notice: HE taketh away.
How does God take away the bad from the good?
The wonderful Psalm 1 tells us. In comparing the faithful from the faithless God says:
4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
At harvest time, the whole wheat head was cut off and harvested. But the whole head was not just pure wheat. The good wheat was sourround by a kind of husk, like the red skin oon a peanut.
This was bitter and could not be processed with the wheat. So it had to be removed.
It was removed quite violently: The whole heads, what and husk were placed in large pans and taken outside. The farmer would then violently shake the pan and the heads would rub together cause the flakey husk to rub off. Then on he would kilfully throw the whole lot into the air and catch it again on the pan. But while it was in the air, the wind would blow away the light flacky husk, called chaff.
He would do this over and over untill finally all the chaff was gone and only the wheat remained.
Why am i explaing 1st centaury farming to you?
because I believe that the church is currently in the threshing pan of God and he is sepersting the good from the badf. The true from the false. The faithful from the faithless.
The lockdown is the violent shaking of the church and covid19 is the strong wind that God is throwing his church into to blow away the chaff.
10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Before our very eyes we see a worldwide refinment of the church the likes of which has not been seen is almost 500 years since the reign of bloody Mary, and even then itbwas not on such a world wide scale.
Churches not preaching the gospel because 50 people is too little for the effort. Saying that its in the name of safty, when in fact its in the name of financial expenditure.
Christian who used to go around proclaiming that thay are going to live forver, are now cowering in the homes afraid of death.
A profession of christ will not survive this storm, only the true possesion of Christ will - and will come out refined like pure silver.
How.
How do we make absolutly sure that the lockdown does not shake us off of the church? How do we make sure that covid19 does not blow us away?
We once agon look at Psalm 1.
it says:
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
This is the christian who is wheat. This is the christian who is saved. This is the christian who has weight and substance to his faith. This is the christian who’s faith survives the threshing, whos faith survives the cutting, whos faith survives the furnace.
What is their secret?
Lets read:
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
My frineds let me help you identify a few things:
The WHO is the ungodly. They are part of the totally evil UN. And their councle is pure filth. While thay tell you how to survice covid on one had, with the other they are currenly bring CSE to south africa for next year. CSE stands for Comprehensive Sexual Education and it they teach children as young as 8 how to masterbate and how homosexualality is normal. They are pure EVIL.
A certan ritch man who own a large computer industry who is the head of the world wide covid task force is a sinner. He is currently in court fighting a charge of crimes againt humanity for aledigly steralising over a million young Kenyan girls for prevent population growth. He did this under the WHo saying it was a new type of vaccine.
The media are the sconful. News agencies no longer present the news they present a narrative. They misrepresnt the truth for sales, internet hits and panic. They mock the truth. They are under the power of Satan, for he is the father of lies and the meda and fake news are his offspring.
This is the state of the world. And God says BLESSED is the man who does not take their councle, who does not walk with them, who does not sit with them.
Rather than follow the ungodly, the sinner and the scorners, what does the true child of God do?
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
The christian delight not in propaganda, not in manipulation, not in lie’s, not is media narratives - but they delight in the truth, the Holy and perfect Word of God and extension, in the one who is the Word made flesh - Jesus Christ.
Jesus is my councelor, not the WHO. The WHO love to tell me all ways I can die, but Jesus is the only one who tells me how i can live.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
As the song says: He is my light, my strength and my song.
And the christian meditates on the Word day and night. If people would read their bible and check in on God’s promises as much as they check covid19 stats they would be much better off.
Many “christians” can tell you today how many people have civid19 and how many people have died from it, but cannot tell you how many chapters there are in John’s gospel.
They can tell you for how long you must wash yoiur hands and how far the vircan travel in droplets but they cannot you what each of the 7 trumpets will bring in revelation.
they hand on every word from the WHO, the CDC, Bill gates - but they cannot recite 5 psalms by heart.
They can tell you the history of covid, where it started, where it spread, how it spread, but they cannot tell you how the gospel spread. How it made its way to Africa and south africa, how it came to america and europe.
They are chaff. They are tares. They are the dross and they are goats. They will not survive this wityh their faith intact.
Wht about you? Will you survive the threshing?