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There seem to be two indisputable causes for separation. If those who control the church to which I belong should demand that I not teach, preach, or witness according to the plain teachings of Scripture, then I would have no choice but to renounce such leadership and seek an environment in which I
A physical separation would be that you try to isolate yourselves from all contact with wicked people and from all use of the products of culture, e.g., cars, tractors, computers, newspapers, musical pieces, radios, and television sets. Some have tried this. At the time of the Reformation, they were
That separation becomes an actual reality through the work of the new birth; for in that new birth, when God calls us irresistibly into fellowship and consecration to Him, at the very same moment, He calls us into separation from the world. None of us maintains himself in that separation from the wo
Separation is made in the very Essence of God and that only is retained concerning Him, which is pleasing, and acceptable, to vain and foolish man. Inevitably, the result is that even those things concerning God that are retained, and have a semblance of truth (though a one-sided and, therefore, hal
It is our opinion that a study of the above mentioned Gospel passages will show that separation is possible only on the grounds of fornication, but physical separation does not destroy the marriage relation. Only death of one of the parties can dissolve the union. And this is also the instruction of
This time we continue our discussion of “fleeing sin” from the viewpoint of separating ourselves from those who live in impenitence. We must understand, first of all, whom we are talking about and what we mean by “separation.” One passage of Scripture in particular helps us out greatly in understand
Disrupting the harmony of that marital bond bears its bitter consequences for the husband and the wife who are separated, but far worse consequences for the children that are deprived of father or mother, and the love and care they so sorely need. The original cause for the very thought of separatio
We must be separate and different from the world because we a redeemed by Christ and therefore strangers in this world, whose essential spiritual character is as different from that of the world as white is different from black. Our coming out from the world is the result of being separated by God;
The separation of an antithetical life is a separation from unrighteous men and women, lest they lead us into their works of darkness. But it is particularly the thought of Ephesians 5:11 to which I want to call your attention for the next few minutes. That is the calling to self-denial when it come
Ecclesiastical separation came in the Jewish synagogues after Christ’s ascension and Pentecost, when Jewish synagogues rejected the gospel and fell away from the faith. Then it was obedience to the Word of God to separate from these synagogues to form true Christian congregations (e.g., Acts 18:4-6;