Day 212 Believers Should Separate Themselves From This Pagan World

Day 212

Daily Bible Reading Schedule

Nehemiah 4-6

As Christians, we need to separate ourselves for the rest of the world.  For whatever reason, we do not do that.

That is why we get sucked into sin and why we turn our backs on God.

I don't know much about the Amish people, but I do admire them.  They have separated themselves from the rest of the world, and are probably better off than most Christians.

God tells us That we live in this world, but are not from this world.

So why do we want to conform to this world?

In the Book of Nehemiah, The Jewish people come back to Israel after 50 years of being exile. The first thing they do is to rebuild the wall to keep other society's out.

They are confronted with opposition. 

Nehemiah 4:6
They plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it. 

Why would they care what the Jewish people were doing?  They were afraid of their God.  They wanted taxes from the,  It is all about power.

Nehemiah 6:9
They were trying to frighten us, thinking our hands are to weak for the work and it will not be complete

6:10
I prayed "Now strength my hands.

6:16
The wall was completed in 52 days
when our enemies heard about this they became afraid because they realized that this work was done with the help of God.

Why are not Believers separating themselves from the Pagans of this world.  Why do we let them get in our face, judge us and persecute us?  Why are we not creating our own communitites  of Believers and stop living as the Pagan do?

Israel is not conforming to blend in with the Pagans of this world.  God is on their side as long as they obey God and do not turn their back on God.

America has turned their back on God.  The Believers are doing nothing about it.  Believers are blending in with the Pagans.  Believers have stopped going to church.
There are too many different churches in America that claim to believe in the same thing, but are not one body of Christ.

Someone gets mad at what is going on in a church, they leave that church and start another church.
That makes no sense.

There is only one Bible, One God. 

So what do you Believe?  Have you separated yourself from this Pagan World?