{"id":328,"date":"2010-04-25T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T13:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/april-separation-a-christian-perpsective-part-2\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T08:23:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T08:23:33","slug":"separation-a-christian-perpsective-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/separation-a-christian-perpsective-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Separation: A Christian Perspective (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the second part of this article I want to apply the Biblical doctrine of separation to seven areas of our Christian lives.\u00a0 We continue to focus on how we can be in the world without becoming part of the world.\u00a0 John Newton, the English pastor and song writer, wrote the following answer in a letter to a friend:<\/span><\/p>\n

In our way of little life in the country, serious people often complain of the snares they meet with from worldly people, and yet, they must mix with them to get a livelihood.\u00a0 I advise them, if they can, to do their business with the world as they do it in the rain.\u00a0 If their business calls them abroad, they will not leave it undone for fear of being a little wet; but then, when it is done, they presently seek shelter, and will not stand in the rain for pleasure: so providential and necessary calls of duty, that lead us into the world, will not hurt us, if we find the spirit of the world unpleasant, and are glad to retire from it, and keep out of it as much as our relative duties will permit.\u00a0 That which is our cross, is not so likely to be our snare; but if that spirit, which we should always watch and pray against, infects and assimilates our minds to itself, then we are sure to suffer loss, and act below the dignity of our profession.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

It should be noted also that separation is not argumentative or caustic by nature, though many separatists have been so by personality.\u00a0 The separatist separates.\u00a0 He walks away, unless there is Biblical reason to admonish.\u00a0 His course of action is not dependent on whether others do right but only on his own faithfulness to Biblical living.\u00a0 When God says, \u201cCome out from among them\u201d (2 Cor. 6:17), that is what he does.\u00a0 Dr. Clearwaters used to tell us, \u201cThe liberals never built anything, they took over everything they own.\u201d\u00a0 Whether that is 100% true, I don\u2019t know, but his point was that separatists have always been willing to leave when staying was a violation of their conscience.\u00a0 The testimony of many liberal schools and churches that were once fundamental might prove the statement largely true.<\/p>\n

Personal Separation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Every believer can follow Christ whole-heartedly.\u00a0 God does not ask us things that are impossible.\u00a0 Most admonitions to holy living in the Bible are directed to the individual.\u00a0 We all have a space (\u201cmy space,\u201d if you will) for which we will give an account one day.\u00a0 Two millenniums of martyrs is testimony enough to the fact that if you believe strongly in your convictions, no one can make you act against them.\u00a0 Oswald Chambers wrote, \u201cWhen once the protest is made where your Lord requires you to make it, you will soon find where you stand — exactly where Jesus said you would, outside the synagogue, called purist, narrow, and absurd.\u201d2<\/sup> Paul earnestly wrote to the Thessalonians, \u201cAnd the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d (1 Thes. 5:23).<\/p>\n

The most well-known passage on personal separation is Rom. 12:1-3.\u00a0 It contains a negative and a positive command.\u00a0 We are not to be \u201cconformed\u201d to the world.\u00a0 This word is from the word, suschematiz?, from which we get the word \u201cschematic.\u201d\u00a0 It is the outward drawing or representation of what is inside.\u00a0 We are not to use our very bodies as an advertisement for the world but rather for a living sacrifice to God.\u00a0 But we are also to be \u201ctransformed\u201d by the renewing of our mind.\u00a0 This word is the word, metamorpho?, which means to have a metamorphosis occur from the inside out.\u00a0 When we think holy, we will begin to live holy.<\/p>\n

Family Separation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The next larger circle of fellowship for the believer is the family.\u00a0 We may not think of separation taking place within the family but it does quite frequently.\u00a0 Children may come to Christ within a lost family; a spouse may get saved but the other does not; or children may rebel against the faith of the family and forefathers.\u00a0 Many faithful believers in such situations are forced to make critical decisions concerning their faith.\u00a0 D.L. Moody wrote, \u201cAnything that comes between me and God — between my world and God — quenches the Spirit.\u00a0 It may be my family.\u00a0 You may say:\u00a0 ‘Is there any danger of my loving my family too much?’\u00a0 Not if we love God more;\u00a0 but God must have the first place.\u00a0 If I love my family more than God, then I am quenching the Spirit of God within me.\u201d3<\/sup><\/p>\n

If the family is united in their convictions, they will seek a life-style that is not only pleasing to God but agreed upon by all family members.\u00a0 Areas of entertainment, music, television, the internet, will have agreed upon rules and limits.\u00a0 The world is against the Christian family and today\u2019s choices are as critical as ever.\u00a0 It is time for Christian families to again abstain rather than indulge.\u00a0 Concerts, theaters, dances, and many internet social sites are controlled by godless unbelievers and rarely offer anything uplifting or spiritually positive.<\/p>\n

The families of our churches are raising the future leaders in our churches.\u00a0 If we are eroding the very moral and spiritual foundation upon which the churches will be built, the future will not be positive.\u00a0 Parents need to take back the leadership in these areas.<\/p>\n

Local Church Separation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Individual believers and families made up of individuals, ought to seek a place to worship where their convictions about holy living can be lived out.\u00a0 This involves the documents of the church which reveal doctrinal beliefs and practices, the reverence of the worship service, and the life-styles of the leadership and membership.\u00a0 This will also be affected by the sister churches and associations with which the church participates in meetings, camps, retreats, and other forms of fellowship.<\/p>\n

Ernest Pickering wrote, “This is the very point.\u00a0 The issue of separation does not involve the believer’s relationship in an invisible church.\u00a0 It involves believers’ relationship to visible churches.\u00a0 The local visible church is a voluntary society.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While membership in the Body of Christ, the so-called universal church, is by the sovereign disposition of the Spirit, membership in a local congregation is by the free choice of a believer as he or she responds to what the Scriptures teach.\u00a0 Freedom of association is at the root of separatist practice and teaching.”4<\/sup> The believer, therefore, will separate from a local church which he cannot join, or may have to separate from his own church if it is not practicing according to his Biblically based convictions.<\/p>\n

Universal Church Separation<\/h2>\n

I mean by this that when a believer separates from other believers, those who truly belong to Christ, he is separating within the sphere of the whole\u00a0 body of Christ.\u00a0 Paul told the Romans, \u201cNow I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them\u201d (Rom. 16:17).\u00a0 Paul also told the Thessalonians, \u201cNow we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us\u201d (2 Thes. 3:6).\u00a0 These verses apply to discipline within the local church and also, by logical inference, to any other brother in Christ who is walking in a way in which fellowship with him would be harmful (1 Tim. 1:20; 2 Tim. 2:17-18).<\/p>\n

Rolland McCune wrote, “Ecclesiastical separation is the refusal to collaborate in or the withdrawal from a working relationship with an organization or a religious leader that deviates from the standards of Scripture.”5<\/sup> This may involve leaving an organization but it may also simply mean the impossibility of joining or fellowshipping in various circles of Christian ministries.\u00a0 This is why believers choose to be in one denomination rather than another, or why even within denominations, some churches would or would not join a certain fellowship, association, or convention.<\/p>\n

Professing Church Separation<\/h2>\n

We often call this Christendom.\u00a0 There are many religious people who do not know the Lord as Savior.\u00a0 Liberalism has taken the gospel message away from many people who are in apostate denominations, churches, and cults.\u00a0 They call Jesus Lord, but in works they deny Him.\u00a0 We may work around them, live next to them, share a meal and witness to them, even go to church across the street from them, but we cannot bid them \u201cGod speed\u201d without being partakers in their \u201cevil deeds\u201d (2 Jn. 10-11).<\/p>\n

Commenting on Psalm 129:8, \u201cNeither do they which go by say, \u2018the blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD,\u201d\u00a0 Spurgeon wrote, \u201cWhen persecutors are worrying the saints, we cannot say, \u2018the blessing of the Lord be upon you.\u2019\u00a0 When they slander the godly and oppose the doctrine of the cross, we dare not bless them in the name of the Lord.\u00a0 It would be infamous to compromise the name of the righteous Jehovah by pronouncing his blessing upon unrighteous deeds.”6<\/sup><\/p>\n

The book of Jude as well as the second chapter of 2 Peter were written to warn us of unbelievers creeping into our churches and fellowships.\u00a0 Not only must we separate from such apostasy, but we must also admonish the brethren to do so.\u00a0 Biblical writers used the strongest terms in describing apostates (wolves, accursed, false apostles, deceitful workers, ungodly, mockers). For a believer to continue to say \u201cGod speed\u201d to them, is to be a partaker of \u201call\u201d their deeds and to become himself disorderly.\u00a0 From such a brother, other brethren should separate.<\/p>\n

National Separation<\/h2>\n

The church of Jesus Christ is a spiritual nation within a physical nation.\u00a0 We take on earthly citizenship and participate in the nation\u2019s activities including commerce, neighborliness, and good citizenship.\u00a0 As individual believers, we exercise citizenship as the apostles did in a Roman nation.\u00a0 We are its best citizens when it comes to being law-abiding, honest, moral, and productive.\u00a0 We may be involved in politics, the military, education, or a number of professions.\u00a0 In this way we affect the culture positively.<\/p>\n

Many conservatives have noted that the Bible is void of any social or political mandate for the local church.7<\/sup> Considering the Roman Empire of the first century, if the Bible was ever going to command the local church to change the culture, it would have been then, but it didn\u2019t.\u00a0 The church gathered must be about doing what it is commanded in Scripture to do:\u00a0 build up the saints to live godly in this world.\u00a0 Then when those saints leave that safe retreat, they are prepared to go out into a hostile world as good soldiers of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

World Separation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Surely we know that we are not to love the world nor the things in the world (1 Jn. 2:15).\u00a0 If a believer becomes the friend of the world, he becomes the enemy of God (Jas. 4:4).\u00a0 But this doesn\u2019t seem to be the case with many Christians.\u00a0 They have tried every way they can to soften the godlessness of the world, and to find ways to indulge themselves in the world and still be a friend to God.\u00a0 It just can\u2019t be done.\u00a0 In fact, John wrote, \u201cIf we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth\u201d (1 Jn. 1:6).\u00a0 We are not talking about the globe as the world, or even the people to whom we are debtors with the gospel, but about the kosmos, the culture created by the sinful nature of lost people.<\/p>\n

And So . . . .<\/h2>\n

“It is a matter of most solemn import that, whereas here and elsewhere in Scripture he who would walk with God is called to separate himself from unholy associations and the fellowship of the mixed multitude, even though it be found in what calls itself the Church.”8<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. John Newton, The Letters of John Newton (Edinburgh:\u00a0 Banner of Truth Trust, 2000) 163.<\/address>\n
2. Oswald Chambers, Biblical Ethics (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Discovery House, 1998) 44.<\/address>\n
3. D.L. Moody, Spiritual Power (Chicago: Moody Press, 1997) 125.<\/address>\n
4. Ernest Pickering, Biblical Separation (Schaumburg:\u00a0 RBP, 1976) 226.<\/address>\n
5. Rolland McCune, Promised Unfulfilled (Greenville:\u00a0 Ambassador Int\u2019l, 2004) 125.<\/address>\n
6. Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, vol. VII (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Baker Book House, 1978) 58.<\/address>\n
7. See McCune, part 7, \u201cSocial Involvement.\u201d\u00a0 Also, Darryl Hart, A Secular Faith, especially chapter 8, \u201cThe Dilemma of Compassionate Conservatism.\u201d<\/address>\n
8. H. A. Ironside, Holiness, The False and the True, (New York:\u00a0 Loizeaux Brothers, nd) 72.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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