Tuesday, October 24, 2017

God Makes A Difference


There are things that God clearly makes a difference between in the bible and the most important one is that he puts a difference between his children and the unsaved people in the world. In the old testament God's people were the nation of Israel and the Egyptians were the children of the world.
Exodus 11:7: But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. That is why in the new testament it says we are to come out from among them and not touch the unclean thing.
II Corinthians 6:16: And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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. 
18: And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

So we are God's people just like the children of Israel were.  God commands us to be separate from sinners and to not touch the unclean thing and when we do he will be very close to us as our father and take care of us because we are separated from the world and separated unto him.  I can remember back when I was young, like in my 20's and I was a new Christian, I was so different than the members of my earthly family, like my mom and dad and sister. I had to come out from among them and not participate in their worldly lifestyle anymore like I used to when I was unsaved, but God was so near and dear to me then and helped me to take a stand for him.  He was very close to me and I could really feel his presence of being my Father when I came out from among them just like II Corinthians 6:17-18 says. Whenever we take a stand for God he will always comfort us and bless us exceedingly, and I can testify that God will help us and lead us all along the way in our walk with him as a loving heavenly father.  Being a child of God is the most wonderful thing there could ever be. The bible even says that God can do exceedingly great things for us.
Ephesians 3:19: And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20: Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.

So God wants us to ask for great things from him. He wants us to pray for big things because he is a great and powerful God who can do great things.
Psalm 81:10: I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. Remember that God led the children of Israel out of Egypt with great miracles and divided the Red Sea. That is the same God that we serve today. God is still great and powerful.

Here are some other verses in the old testament that tell us to put a difference between clean and unclean things.
Leviticus 10:10: And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean: 
Leviticus 11:47: To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Leviticus: 20:25: Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Ezekiel 44:23: And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.