Come out..and be ye separate
This instruction by the Holy Spirit through Paul does not stand as an option to the true believer. Compared with 1Corinthians 15:33, we see that we either separate or become corrupted by the world’s communication and life styles. How often I find my thinking and life plans steering toward the temporal goals of pleasure and wealth and not after Christ. I can usually trace the source back to a friend or influence unaffected by the Spirit’s
call to holiness and the the sanctified life. Watch and pray.Be one of the influences toward God.
Grafted in- Romans 11:20-22
We are told in Roman 11 that the church is actually a wild branch grafted into the natural root of the planned kingdom of God. There we are warned that if we do not keep the faith, we shall also feel the shame of being cast aside as did Israel when she rejected her Messiah.”The faith” delivered is the Word of God as received from the Spirit of God , faithfully copied, trusted and lived by faithful witnesses from the Apostles to the present day. The popular search for”the oldest manuscripts” is the biggest farce that unbelieving scholastic minds have foisted on the church.Follow the great
revivals and reformations- and behind them you will find the Majority Syrian manuscripts.Erasmus,Calvin, Beza, Tyndale… all faithful men.Today the word- for- word faithful “son” in English is the KJV. Read it, study it. Hold true to the faith.. or we will find ourselves outside the door when Jesus comes. ” Keep yourselves in the love of God” . Jude 24 Pastor Jones
“ Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit” Luke 23:46
The word commend means “to commit to the trust of” another. Here Jesus is ready to die and leaves us a
lesson so that in the hour of death, the terrors of the unknown do not take us down. His relationship to God
is passed to us as children of the heavenly Father and He taught us to look to God as such in the Lord’s prayer.
Jesus deliberate decision at this time to separate his spirit from the body seems to imply that He had control of the time of His own death. I have read of others who have , by the very might of determination, held themselves back from the brink of death by bestirring their minds to hold on another minute and not allow themselves to fall back slowly into the black velvet cushion that tempted them because they were aware that it was death. Yet in all this, God has marked our time of life and knows our last heartbeat form the very beginnings of time .It is ours to consider that time sacred and as one into whose hands a precious treasure is placed. To attend a funeral
and not to consider the day of our own is foolish indeed.
The crowd heard the voice that dismissed His divine spirit. It says that He cried with a loud voice. He wanted them to know that His death was on purpose. It was pre-determined and indeed the very reason that
He had come- prophesied before His birth in Matthew 1:21. What better way to close life that to commit your
life back with confidence to the One Who gave it to you, knowing you have lived it for Him. Christian, remember the day when you can no longer retain your spirit and it goes back to God. Be sure that will be a day of confidence in faith and not a day of fear. Go for daily cleansing in the Blood of Jesus and live with the joy of the Spirit. “Because I live, ye shall live also.” John 14:19.