Come Out From Amongst Them
Not Run In Among Them
The World:
2Co 6:
12 You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained by your own affections.
13 But for the same reward – I speak as to children – open wide your hearts too.
14 Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
15 And what agreement has Messiah with Beliyaʽal? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever?
16 And what union has the Dwelling Place of Elohim with idols? For you are a Dwelling Place of the living Elohim, as Elohim has said, “I shall dwell in them and walk among them, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”
17 Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you.
18 “And I shall be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says יהוה the Almighty.”
Rom 12:
1 I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim.
3 For I say, through the favour which has been given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he should think, but to think soberly, as Elohim has given to each a measure of belief.
Even the ten northern tribes called on the name of Yahweh/Yahuah, yet they were scattered to the ends of the earth because they corrupted themselves with the things of the world and fellowshipped with those around them.
Those Who Profess To Be Our Family (brothers & sisters):
Rom 16:
17 Now I call upon you, brothers, watch out for those who cause divisions and stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.
18 For such ones do not serve our Master יהושע Messiah, but their own stomach, and by smooth words and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
1Co 5:
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to keep company with those who whore (after things of the flesh).1
10 And I certainly did not mean with those of this world who whore, or with the greedy of gain, or swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone called ‘a brother,’ if he is one who whores, or greedy of gain, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler – not even to eat with such a one.
12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are inside?
13 But Elohim judges those who are outside. And put away the wicked one from among you!
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Gal 5:
19 And the works of the flesh are well-known, which are these: adultery, whoring, uncleanness, indecency,
20 idolatry, drug sorcery, hatred, quarrels, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
21 envy, murders, drunkenness, wild parties, and the like – of which I forewarn you, even as I also said before, that those who practise such as these shall not inherit the reign of Elohim.
Eph 4:
17 So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk as the gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
18 having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,
19 who, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecency, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But you have not so learned Messiah,
21 if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as truth is in יהושע:
22 that you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and that you put on the renewed man which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth.
25 Therefore, having put off the false, speak truth, each one with his neighbour, for we are members of one another.
1Co 5:
1 It is commonly reported that there is whoring among you, and such whoring as is not even named among the gentiles, so as one to have his father’s wife!
2 And you have been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he who has done this deed, be removed from among you!
3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged the one who did this, as though I were present.
4 In the Name of our Master יהושע Messiah, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Master יהושע Messiah,
5 deliver such a one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit be saved in the day of the Master יהושע.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the entire lump?
7 Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our Passover was offered for us.
Php 2:
1 If, then, there is any encouragement in Messiah, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
2 make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, one in being and of purpose,
3 doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
4 Each one should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
5 For, let this mind be in you which was also in Messiah יהושע,
Doctrines and Precepts We Need To Adhere To:
Rom 1:
28 And even as they did not think it worth- while to possess the knowledge of Elohim, Elohim gave them over to a worthless mind, to do what is improper,
29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoring, wickedness, greed, evil; filled with envy, murder, fighting, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,
30 slanderers, haters of Elohim, insolent, proud, boasters, devisers of evils, disobedient to parents,
31 without discernment, covenant breakers, unloving, unforgiving, ruthless;
32 who, though they know the righteousness of Elohim, that those who practise such deserve death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practise them.
Gal 5:
6 For in Messiah יהושע neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but belief working through love.
7 You were running well, who held you back from obeying the truth?
8 That persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.
9 A little leaven leavens all the lump.
10 I trust in you, in the Master, that you shall have no other mind. And he who is troubling you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.
11 And I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling-block of the stake has been set aside.
12 O that those who disturb you would even cut themselves off!
2Jn 1:
8 See to yourselves, that we do not lose what we worked for, but that we might receive a complete reward.
9 Everyone who is transgressing and not staying in the teaching of Messiah does not possess Elohim. The one who stays in the teaching of Messiah possesses both the Father and the Son.
10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house nor greet him,
11 for he who greets him shares in his wicked works.
We are not to deal with these occurrences in regards to personalities or emotions but with the guidance of Divine Holy Scripture. Yahweh/Yahuah knows what is best for His Creation.
When we become presumptuous and refuse to do those things Father has commanded us we place ourselves at enmity with the Creator of the Universe and there is no possible way we can have a proper relationship with Him or His Precious Son (Yahshuah/Yahusha).
Rom 8:
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the matters of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the matters of the Spirit.
6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
7 Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself to the Torah of Elohim, neither indeed is it able,
8 and those who are in the flesh are unable to please Elohim.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, this one is not His.
10 And if Messiah is in you, the body is truly dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness.
Jas 4:
1 Where do fightings and strivings come from among you? Do they not come from your pleasures that battle in your members?
2 You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and are unable to obtain. You strive and fight, and you do not possess, because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask evilly, in order to spend it on your pleasures.
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim? Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which dwells in us intensely crave unto envy?
6 But He gives greater favour. Because of this He says, “Elohim resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble.”
7 So then subject yourselves to Elohim. Resist the devil and he shall flee from you.
8 Draw near to Elohim and He shall draw near to you. Cleanse hands, sinners. And cleanse the hearts, you double-minded!
9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Master, and He shall lift you up.
Enmity: hostility, hatred, by implication a reason for opposition, breach of promise or occasion
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