The divine proclamation that launched the church into being, requires that believers live their lives as a distinct and separate people, in accordance with GOd’s Exacting law. That marvellous blue-print demands that Christians sustain a clear identity of consecration and separateness. It is this distinctiveness that was originally intended to mould the church into a people totally detached from the decay of this evil world, both in their belief and manifest lifestyle. But you are a chosen people, a royal priest hood, a holy nation, GOD’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light (1 Pet 2:9). A lofty calling of this kind is what essentially defined the water-shed moment for the church, at her creation. It was upon this same platform of separation that JEHOVAH had #hitherto proclaimed, not only the existence of the ancient nation of israel, but also his everlasting covenant with them. The LORD ensured that such a covenant would encompass a spiritual austerity that would enforce a strict adherence to And owing to its everlasting treasure, spiritual purity today continues to stand out as the guarded bedrock upon which christian salvation was launched at the Calvary Cross the separateness of Israel as a chosen people. #Verse5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, #Verse6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.” (exodus 19:5-6). Consequent to that holy treaty then, Israel was required to inexorably comply with a firm observance of a holy segregation unto the Lord. Gods chosen people subscribing to such a Supreme Law with their own Creator, now demanded that they live their lives within the confines of that governing Law. The holy Law being discussed here is what brought with it the sacred instruments of restraint. A classical case in time is when the LORD restrained israel as his covenant people, from intermingling with the defiled communities that defined their neighbourhood.
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