God Wants Believers to "Come Out!"

 - Judson Cornwall in Charisma Magazine - 

One of the glorious evidences of the grace of God is His willing­ness to meet people where they are. He didn't call Israel out of Egypt and then meet her at a prearranged rendezvous, He appeared to her in Egypt, com­municated with her through Moses; revealed some of the greatness of His might in the plagues, and then led her out of Egypt with a strong hand. To have made coming out a requisite for meeting God would have banished these slaves from ever meeting God. God always meets people where they are.

But they could never have known Him in covenant relationship if they hadn't followed God out of — into. Their separation from their old life made it possible for them to be separated unto God.

God's patterns have not changed! In our generation He has poured out His Spirit upon "all flesh," just as He promised, and He has required little or no change in the recipients as a qualification to being filled. He has just met people where they were and has given to them a measure of what He is — Holy Spirit.

But let no recently-baptized believer expect to stay in his former way of life very much longer, for after visiting His people God habitually issues the call, "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will re­ceive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" (2 Corinthians 6:17, 18).

This call involves an invitation, a direction, a division, a sanctification, and a relationship.

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