We do not belong to this world

From: January 20 – 26, 2009

Pastor: Edith Cruz

Study: # 576 (before 316)

Topic: “We do not belong to this world” Isaiah 52:11 We can see here that Isaiah spoke clearly about not touching impure things, what is impure or dirty before God. If you know the Scriptures, you know that all the prophets were inspired by the Holy Spirit and are easy to understand. Though, in some there is an attitude of rejection towards God’s Word and we can see that they are not moved by anything. The problem is that they have turned stubborn obstinate. The Scriptures are easy to understand and they teach us and perfect us. 2 Timothy 3:16 But we humans, complicate the Bible according to what is inside of our lives. Since we are filled with so much bad and erroneous information from this world, the Scriptures comes into our ears and the message clashes. What comes out, like bad attitudes, bad works and silly stupid words come from evilness and from false things we let in our lives as the years go by. This is why everything turns into confusion, gossip, hatred and we sow chaos everywhere, etc. Then, we must listen to Isaiah and really seek what is in us and repair what is wrong. When a person decides to leave God it is because there is something inside of them that disturbs him and he has given God a second place. The matter is that we do not belong to this world. When we understand this then we will stop acting as the world does. This world and their passions are destroying our island, for they are running to evilness. Open your eyes and free yourself from this! It is very dangerous to flirt with this world, for the time will come when your body will get used to it and it will start accepting as good what is wrong. The great majority will follow the worldly things, of what is not pure and filled with impiety. Day by day they walk toward sin and the problem is that we are the church and the devil wants us to believe that we are the same as the world and this is not right. We are the same in the sense that we are flesh and bones and that one day we will die, but we will have a resurrection for eternal life. Of course, this is if we preserve ourselves as righteous believers! Mathew 24:13 The ones who will establish if we have a resurrection is us. But this world is very attractive, passions are very attractive. And this will be this way until those who want to sin will fall prisoners of all that stuff that looks beautiful, it looks great, and that is a trap. When sickness comes, death, when the person cannot sleep in peace, when our children fall into drugs, when misfortune comes, then we want to seek for remedy. Then we don’t want to see the world as something great, but the problem is that misfortune has arrived. But beloved, we no longer belong to this world. Isaiah the prophet spoke to Israel, a nation that was submit to shatterness, to a curse, because they left God and chose what was filthy and perverse. This is why; we must understand clearly that there is only two roads, the right one and the bad one. If we continue with the ungodly things one day we will no longer be here and we will look for many excuses reasons and we will accuse the whole world and we will speak many gossip to justify ourselves. But, we must open our eyes wide and our understanding and we must understand that our soul must be formed at the image and resemblance of God and not as the unworldly filthy. We the believers must be righteous and give the right measure and distribute with justice. Isaiah said: "Depart, depart, go out from there…” We are separated for God. When God calls us He separates us for Him, He makes us an honorable vessel, He picks you and selects you from the Heavens. Are we, or are we not separated for God? If we let our thoughts fly freely and go where ever they want to they will end up destroying us. And in this way who will be destroyed if it is not ourselves? Our thought should not be a reason to walk away from God; they should not make us yield to sin. Never, never, never, those who believe in God will incline to any weakness of our bodies. This sinful weakness can drive us to death. This is why, we bow before the sovereign God who dwell in the third Heaven, that there is nothing, nor angels, nor principalities, that can move us away from this love which broke our chains, and took away my entire curse. Romans 8: 37-39 Nowadays in the church, many pure things have turned into worldly things. This is why I must take care of my mind and my heart, because God has separated me for Him and I want to see God’s power. I must understand that I am here to serve God, the one who is my Creator. “Touch no unclean thing.” All that is filthy will take you to condemnation, it separates us from God. Satan knows that if we touch the unclean his kingdom will immediately have the right to come to influence us freely. When we touch the unclean it is because we are not close to God. The men and women who have been separated by God cannot live of the mercies; they must find grace in the eyes of Jehovah. This is because they have been separated by Jehovah. We must die to ourselves and to sin before the presence of Jehovah day by day. “Purify yourselves (cleanse our bodies)...” We must wash ourselves to take the filthiness away. We must let God cleanse us from head to toe. Wesley said: “we can have a sincere heart, but have a confused mind.” This is why we must let God cleanse us from all our actions. We must clean our walk. If we let God cleanse our walk, we will be a powerful church. We “carry Jehovah’s utensil.” Jehovah has given us His utensils for us to carry and these utensils cannot get filthy. God can come and take them away when He sees that the one who carry them gets filthy. In John 15:19 it says that God chose us. Because we were in the world and He took us out of there, for this reason the world hates us. The world cannot love us; it hates us because we don’t belong to it. Because nothing good comes from this world. We have been chosen from this sinful world to be new creatures. Acts 2:40 we must be saved from this perverse generation where evilness continues to rise. This generation wants to destroy us and we must not contaminate ourselves. Those who are perverted are the one who disturb the state of the things, are the ones who come to break God’s order. We are no longer what we used to be, or are you the same? Ephesians 5:11 We must rebuke what is wrong. We cannot participate of this world or of its fruitless works, useless works, sterile works, works that will only lead us to failure. If we take part in the works of Satan, he will say: “now it’s time!” We must rebuke those works and have the guts and be well dispose to even lost friends. It must not be usual for us to

hide what is wrong as some do. The nation that does not want to be the same as the world and wants to see the fire of God, those who want to move God’s hand, and prosper with justice, have to sanctify and not touch unclean things. Amen.