144. Separations
144. Separations
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SEPARATIONS
INTRODUCTION Separation may be pleasant or sad, sudden or gradual, abrupt or looked for, voluntary or forced, temporary or eternal. l. RELATIONS 1. Difference between two and a pair.
(a) A fox and a goose are two.
(b) Judas and John are two.
(c) David and Jonathan, a PAIR.
2. Proximity is not affinity.
3. Two do not imply unity.
4. A pair implies unity. ll. KINDS OF SEPARATION 1. Cleavage by distance .
2. Social cleavage.
3. Intellectual cleavage .
4. Moral cleavage.
5. Separation from sins.
6. Separation by death.
7. Separation from God. (Ephesians 2:12.) III. DRIFTING APART 1. Friends, schoolmates, etc.
2. Members of a family-Jacob and Esau.
3. Members of the church.
4. Drift from God. (Hebrews 2:1-4.)
IV. THE CHURCH 1. Composed of the sanctified.
2. Called out of the world.
3. A holy nation. (1 Peter 2:9.) 4. Cannot be separated from Christ. (Romans 8:28.) V. AN ETERNAL SEPARATION 1. John the Baptist preached it. (Matthew 3:12.) 2. Separated at the judgment. (Matthew 25:32.) 3. The two destinies separated . (Matthew 25:46.)