"Get Thee Out"

2 Corinthians 6:17  

"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, 

saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; 

and I will receive you,"

    The whole passage is a summons not to hold any fellowship with unbelievers. It is a challenge to the Corinthians to keep themselves unspotted from the world. The history of Israel is in the words, "Get thee out!" That was the word of God that came to Abraham as the King James Version has it. "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:." (Gen. 12:1). That was also the warning that came to Lot before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Gen.19:12-14). There are things in the world with which the Christian cannot and dare not associate himself.

    It is difficult to realize just how many separations Christianity meant for the people who first accepted it. Often it meant that a man had to give up his trade. Suppose he was a stone mason. What was to happen if his firm received a contract to build a heathen shrine? Suppose he was a tailor. What was to happen if he was instructed to cut and sew garments for priests of the heathen gods? Time and time again in the early Church the choice came to a man between the security of his job and his loyalty to Jesus Christ. 

    My Friends, "Where is your loyalty today, your job or to Jesus Christ? Let me make the answer to that question easier.  No man is keeper of another man's conscience. Every man must decide for himself if he can take his trade to Christ and Christ with him to his daily work. However hard it may be, it will always remain true that there are certain things a man cannot do and be a Christian. There are certain things from which every Christian "must get out."

Amen!

Reading: (2 Cor. 6:14-18)

Ref: (HG SB; DSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry