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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Three Separations of the Royal Priesthood, #6
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:3-6)
]The Christian Church began with Spirit-filled Jews who were called of Christ and will be completed when God once more turns to the physical Jews, fills them with His Spirit, and makes them part of Christ along with us. Flesh and blood never can enter the Kingdom of God—not even Jewish flesh and blood, as Christ spoke to Nicodemus.
It is because we saints have been called out from the world in order to reveal God to the nations of the earth that it is so very necessary we be separate from the world. We cannot deliver the world by being a part of it. We have to permit the Spirit of God to separate us from the world so we can become a part of God through Christ. It is only as we become part of the Lord that we are able to bring God to mankind.
All the nations of the earth will be blessed through Abraham's Seed, and we are part of the one true Seed.
A believer who is not separate from the world is useless to God and to men. He is to be cast into the fire and burned (John 15:6). He cannot serve as the light of the world because the darkness of the world is in him.
For two thousand years the Christian churches have attempted to save the world by making friends with it. This is why most of the world remains in darkness. We can deliver the world from death only by obeying God in the matter of separation from the world.
The seventeenth chapter of the Book of John describes the wall (the wall of the new Jerusalem) that exists between the Church and the world. In several passages of the seventeenth chapter the Lord Jesus emphasizes the absolute division between the saints and the world. It is a division that originated in the mind of God before the world was created, because that is when the Church was perfected in the mind of God. The saints, the holy ones, the members of the Body of Christ, were called from the beginning of time:
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ before the world began, (II Timothy 1:9)
And also:
As thou hast given him power [authority] over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (John 17:2,9,16)
To be continued.