Be separate!
This week we look at this from another perspective. Why do we need to be separate from the worldly things?
One of the things that separation produces is a process. It takes time to separate things and work through the process of what will bring life or what will produce death in your life. One thing that will compromise your process is the way you see yourself.
2 Cor 5:17 If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. Behold old things have passed away, all things have become new.
When God created man and woman, God did not see man from man’s perspective. God saw them from His perspective and that was and is the foundation for their created purpose. Adam was to see himself from God’s perspective and live as an overcomer that was called to rule, reign, subdue and fill the earth. Man’s senses were attuned to God and the spirit world. God walked with them and communed with them. Man was God conscience and not sin conscience. Interacting with the Spirit world was normal. That was why they could be tempted by the enemy.
Adam was a spirit being having an earthly experience. Then sin entered through the temptation and the fall of man. Something changed. From that day on man would be sin conscious and his view would change. Man will see himself from the fall and his senses would become his reality. Being in the image of God, now man will be ruled by his imagination. He will view himself and others through his senses. From this day forward man will struggle with the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life – 1 John 2:16.
We all still have stuff in our hearts that affects the way we see ourselves and others. Until you see different you will compromise your process. When your heart is not cleansed, everything you do and speak comes through the perversion of that heart.
Prov 23:7 As a man thinks in his heart so is he…..
So how does God deal with our problem? Jesus made it clear.
Matt. 7:1-5 “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure, you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but does not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
God never shows you, people, until He has shown you yourself. We must establish a pattern of separation from the worldly things for ourselves before we can try to help other people. When you can’t see yourself from His perspective, how will you see other people? You must be God conscience about yourself first before you can have His mind for others. If you have not figured out what produces life in you, what will you produce in others?
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
When you walk in the light with Jesus, it qualifies you to be in fellowship with others. Spirit transfers through association. Show me who you hang out with and I can show you what you will become. You are known by the friends you hang out with.
Be separate. We are in the world but not of this world. Get your heart right with God. He needs you to show the world what He can do with a surrendered heart.
Next week we will look at the two ways that help us to see ourselves from His perspective and not our own fallen senses.
