The Great Separation

yeah we thank you Father for your great promises to all of us for the hope the faith the love that we can only find in Jesus who came to this world to find sinners that are walking in darkness and upon them light has done the light of the world and we thank you Father that in that light we can walk he is the Alpha and the Omega the Aleph and the Tao the beginning and the end and his name is Jesus and in his name we pray and everybody say Amen thank you Shalom everyone oh that was the weakest Shalom of today I'm gonna count to three and you're gonna say together Shalom one two three much better good to be here with you in this beautiful Church in this beautiful country I just came back from the islands in in Palawan and I want to tell you something you've got the most beautiful country in the world I showed some pictures up there and I we it's hard to imagine that God could make such beautiful places and they were when you when you magnify the picture it looks like a paintbrush it's that amazing and I'm telling you you have a lot to thank God for yes all right good well the topic of well first of all the first service we talked about one topic then second one a different one and now a different one three different sir messages in one Sunday and that's because I hate repeating myself this message is titled the great separation and I wanna tell you something I I have an issue with this word separation being born to a family that was broken growing up in foster care wanting to end up my life when I was 17 because of that separation it was the separation of the parents but is it mostly the separation of me from my god that didn't leave me any reason or desire to live this word separation has a very bad and terrible and nagging connotation is you may know and I believe that when God created the world I don't even think that word was in the vocabulary if there was one thing in this amazing world in the beginning when he made it all great please when you reading the only thing he separated is the sea from the land and the darkness from the light but but if you really think about it God dwelled among men and there was perfect harmony and peace and separation was not even going through anybody's mind and unfortunately it didn't take men too long to just blow it up to just drop the ball to just do the wrong thing you know God never created robots he created people with freewill that's that's the amazing thing about humans we can choose to follow God or not we can choose to worship God or not the God says to Moses Moses tell them here I put before you evil and good death and life choose life he's a name choose life but it's your choice but we all know what happened in chapter 3 of Genesis and we all know that there was a choice it was a very poor choice and we all know that Adam and Eve were separated from the place God intended them to have and we know that it's the first time man was separated from God and it was after the original sin and we all know that Genesis 3:24 so he drove out the man and he placed chair at the east of the Garden of Eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way to the Tree of Life Men was separated from the Tree of Life I just gave a message and our congregation in Israel during Christmas on unto us a child was born from Isaiah chapter 9 and I I explained how biblical Christmas is you know how important it is to celebrate the birth of that son that was given unto us how so many pagan symbols infiltrated into that holiday but how much we can turn them around and tell people about Jesus because he so and when it comes to the tree Jesus is the Tree of Life you really think taste and see that the Lord is good and you taste Jesus you have eternal life if you think about it men was separated from the tree of life because of sin Wow but in that time when the world was perfect in 1 or 2 people were not victor fect was removed and was separated out of the perfect world so in Genesis 3 the sinner is the one separated from a perfect world but that's it it didn't take too long in chapter 4 came once again is separated because of what he did he's removed from the presence of the Lord in Genesis 4:16 and Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of Nod on the East of Eden still the world was perfect few were sinners then unfortunately one of the saddest versus in their whole Bible is in Chapter six you know sin separates us from God Isaiah 59 verses 1 & 2 behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save nor his ear heavy that he cannot hear but your iniquities have separated you from your God and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear so the separation is because of us and because of sin and the separation of Noah from the world is already something different you see from Genesis 6 and on it was the righteous that had to be removed and separated because the whole world turned so wicked it's no longer the wicked separated from a perfect world from that moment it's the righteous that is going to be separated from a wicked world and look Genesis 6 the saddest verses in the whole Bible then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually it's not like they were having some bad thoughts sometimes every thought and every intention was wicked not today continually from chapter 3 with one rebellious act to Chapter six who are everything they do is weak wicked and evil and the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and he was grieved in his heart so the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast creeping things in the birds of the air for I am sorry that I have made them what a terrible thing to hear from God and it's all he intended what he created great I mean the Bible says that the creation of man was this is what this was the highlight of the creation he gave man dominion over all creation amazing men was even superior to angels thank God for verse 8 but Noah say but Noah and remember that we're holding on to that in that dark world he saw a glimpse of light but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and God says I'm gonna remove the righteous from the wicked world and it's going to be the pattern from now on no longer the wicked removed from a perfect world now it's going to be the righteous that will be removed and separated and separation thus had begun almost throughout the whole history from that time on separation of Abraham from his home and family sometimes when God is gonna use you he will separate you from your house from your family from your country from your culture from your language to a place that he will show you it's a necessary separation and Abraham in Genesis 12 the Bible says now the Lord said to Abraham get out of your country from your family and from your father's house it's a big thing in those days in that culture for someone to leave his father's house can you imagine what did Jesus in my father's house there are many mansions that the greatest thing what you take pride of is your father's house and he says to him get out of your country from your family from your father's house to a land and abram yes I will show you but there's a great promise don't worry I'm not gonna take you out of your country and from your land and from your home and your family and destroy you I will take you to a place where I will make you a great nation I will bless you and I will make your name great and you shall be a blessing and I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed you see if God takes you out of whatever culture you are whatever religion you are whatever tradition you're locked into and he's using you to preach the gospel you will be a blessing to all the families of the world then there was the separation of Moses from Egypt Moses was born in that area he grew up in Pharaoh's home he he was an Egyptian in a way a prince the Prince of Egypt for Disney and he was separated from Egypt for God to work through Moses in Moses by Moses he needed to separate him and he separated him and he was there for for so many years with his father-in-law and his wife in the desert tending sheep that's not a great thing you only think about it from Palace to ten sheep in the desert Exodus to verse the latter part of verse 15 but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelled in the land of Midian amazing and then came the point where Moses convinces Pharaoh after a long time that Israel should come out of Egypt and now comes this separate nation of Israel from Egypt and it's interesting how how much Pharaoh couldn't take it anymore Exodus 12 31 32 then Pharaoh cold for Moses and Aaron by night and said rise go out from among my people both you and the children of Israel and go serve the Lord as you have said and also take your flocks and your herds and as you have said and be gone but bless me also Tara knew there was a God in Israel he knew this God is able to do everything and he knew he needs that God's blessing but you know you can take someone out of Egypt but you need to take the Egypt out of someone and the Israelites came out of Egypt but Egypt was still in them they're walking in the desert and all they think about is the food in Egypt and the gods of Egypt and the things of Egypt there has to be a point where Israel was to be separated from the pagan world this is why Moses in chapter 33 of Exodus when he after he went down from Mount Sinai he said to the Lord the Lord said to Moses my presence will go with you and I will give you rest and then Moses said to God if your presence does not go with us do not bring us up from here for how then will it be known that your people and I have found grace in your sight except you go with us so we shall be what separate your people and I from all the people who are upon the face of the earth Moses says Lord I don't send us with someone we're not moving out of here unless you are with us he can't expect me to be stuck with these people and you gone unless you take me out of here I'm not moving I need everyone around and my own people to know that it's you so the Lord said to Moses you know Moses had a lot of hutzpah to talk like that to God here we think about it who was gutsy and the Lord said to Moses I will also do this thing that you have spoken if you have found grace in my sight and I know you by name when God is separating you he knows you by name he know who you are what your name is and he wants you to demand him to be with you but sometimes it's not just the people from a foreign land of the people from a pagan world sometimes within the people there is a separation think about Moses coming down from Mount Sinai and they were celebrating the golden calf Moses the Bible says Exodus 32 when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained for an had not restrained them to their shame among their enemies then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp and said whoever is on the Lord's side come to me and all the sons of Levy gathered themselves together to him within the nation sometimes within your own you will have to have a separation and the only criteria is who is on the Lord's side it's not who do you like more who looks better who is wealthier it's who is on the Lord's side and then Jesus came to the world and when Jesus came to the world all the rules have changed everything certain things that God tolerated before came to an end Jesus now is providing solution for a problem that had no solution until that moment so everything changes and the first thing that the believers of that time in Jerusalem realized is of the need of the Jewish believers in Jesus to be separated from religion and traditional Judaism they had to be separated galatians chapter 2 verses 11 and 12 to 20 now in peter had come to antioch look what Paul a Jew writes about Peter a Jew when Peter come to came to Antioch I would stood him to his face because he was to be blamed for before certain men came from James he would eat with the Gentiles but when they came he would drew and separated himself fearing those who were of the circumcision and the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him so that even Barnabas was carried away with her hypocrisy this is quite harsh Paul is writing things here Paul didn't like it he said when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel I said to Peter before all of them if you being a Jew live in the manner of the Gentiles and and not as the Jews why do you compel Gentiles to leave as Jews we who are Jews by nature and not sinners or the Gentiles knowing that a man is not justified by the words of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ even we have believed in Christ Jesus that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified no flesh shall be justified by the work of a Jew is telling a Jew don't act like a Jew and be hypocrite acting like suddenly religion matters when you know that the law cannot save them don't sell them that you have to be man up and be an example if while we seek to be justified by Christ we ourselves are also found sinners is Christ therefore a minister of sin certainly not for if I build again those things which I destroyed I make myself a transgressor for I through the law died to the law that I might live to God I have been crucified with Christ it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live is in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me I do not set aside the grace of God for if righteousness comes through the law then Christ died in vain he says everything we teach we must practice he said look we're not perfect we're sinners all of us are sinners don't tell them that you will be perfected by keeping the law when you know that the law cannot save you we're saved by grace but the same thing that is asked the Jews to believers who separate themselves from now asking the Gentile believers to separate themselves from that pagan world and now the Filipinos will have hard time with me are you ready okay acts 15 act 15 there were some discussion whether the believers that are not the Jews should be circumcised so Paul knowing that obviously it's not required came all the way with Barnabas he came all the way to Jerusalem and they that was the first council the Jerusalem Council where they all meet together and really discuss the matter of what are we going to do with the Gentiles up until now the only believers are Jewish people now Gentiles are added to faith and what are we going to tell them to keep the law to be circumcised Filipinos listen he please the Apostles and the elders with the whole church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas namely Judas of what the name of his called barsabbas and Silas leading men among the Brethren and they wrote this letter to them now the letter that is written to the brothers that are not Jews the Apostles the elders and brethren to the Brethren who are in the Gentile of the Gentiles in Antioch Syria and Cilicia greetings since we have heard that some of who went out from us have troubled you with words unsettling your soul saying you must be circumcised and keep the law to whom we gave no such commandment it seems good to us being assembled with one Accord to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul men who are who have risked their lives for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ who have their force now we have therefore sent Judas and Silas who also report the same things by word of mouth for it seemed good to the holy spirit end to us he's saying look what I'm sending you now is something that the Holy Spirit confirmed and it seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things you abstain from things offered to idols from dinuguan no what was it What did he say here ok let's go back because a lot of people hear it whatever they want now to abstain from things offered to idols from blood from things strangled from sexual immorality if you keep yourselves from these you will do well farewell this is it acts 17 Paul is in the middle of Athens everybody thinks that they're God's gift to the world over there they all think that they have more degrees than the degrees outside they are so impressed with their own education and Paul looking all around him sees people who believes in at least 2,000 different gods and God Paul says to them God who made the world and everything in it since he is Lord of Heaven and Earth does not dwell in temples made with hands nor is he worshipped with men's things with men's hands and and though he needed anything since he gives to all life breath and all things and he has made from the blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth he also determined their pre appointed times and boundaries who borders are from God end of the the boundaries of their dwellings so that they should seek the Lord in the hope that they might grope for him and find him though he's not far from each one of us for in him God is not far you may not believe in him but he's there in him we live and we move and we have our being and as also some of your own poets have said for we are also his offsprings therefore since we are the offsprings of God we ought not to think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone something shaped by art of man's devising and now he's telling the Gentiles around the world the good news that were supposed to be bad news for them he says truly these times of ignorance God overlooked when God was dealing with Israel he overlooked the ignorance of the Gentiles but now Christ came now sins are forgiven now there is a solution now there is redemption now say back now he commands all men say all men everywhere everywhere to repent you cannot be saved you cannot enter the kingdom of God you cannot be a child of a you cannot call him Abba Father you cannot enter into the Holy of Holies you cannot find grace in front of that flow no rest unless you first what repent the first word of Jesus by the way the fact that you repent doesn't make you perfect you might stumble and fall you might sin but repent is the key repentance is the key and he says now he commands all men everywhere to repent because people must repent there is no automatic salvation anywhere you must repent because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world there is judgment coming in righteousness by the man who he has a for Dane he has given assurance of this to all by raising him from the dead there's also the separation of the born-again believers from false teachers from within whoa Matthew 7:21 23 not everyone who says to me Lord Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my father in heaven many will say to me in the day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in your name cast out demons in your name and done many wonders in your name and then I will declare to them I never knew you depart from me you who practice lawlessness 2nd Corinthians 11 22:50 12 to 15 but that I do I will also continue to do that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast for such are false apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into apostles of Christ and no wonder for Satan himself transformed himself into an angel of light therefore it is no greater thing in these ministries in this me if if his ministers also transformed himself into minister of righteousness whose end will be according to their works second Timothy three but know this that in the last days perlis times will come for men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy unloving unforgiving slanderers without self-control brutal despisers of good traitors headstrong haughty lovers of pleasure rather than the lover lovers of god having a form of godliness but denying its power and from such people separate yourself turn away up until now we talked about this world the separation the physical and the spiritual separation that you had to do in this world but I want all of you to get ready for the great separation a separation that will change everything because there is no way of turning back and I am talking about the great separation of the church from this world I'm talking about the physical removal of the believers from this world this is the great separation the rapture of the church yes the word rapture is not in the Bible but the word Trinity is not in the Bible rapture comes from rapture oh it's in Latin it comes from the Greek harp as oh and it is in the Bible many times it's to be caught up to be taken up 1st Corinthians 15 I tell you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall beat all change in a moment in a twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put more tality 1st Thessalonians 4 but I do not want you brethren to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen asleep unless you sorrow as others who have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so God will bring with him those who fell who who sleep in Jesus for this is the way we say to you by the word of the Lord that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout with a voice of an archangel and with a trumpet of God and they did in Christ this is the great separation the dead in Christ will rise first then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and thus we shall always be with the Lord therefore comfort one another with these words that great separation God told us to separate ourselves from so many things and yet we're still here Jesus could have prayed father I pray that when you take me you will take them also he didn't he actually said father I do not ask you to take them but I ask you to keep them from the evil one because they must stay here because they have to do your will they have to spread the word they have to tell the world that there is solution there is hope there is redemption and it is the name of Jesus that everyone must believe in if he would have taken them two thousand years ago you would be still dead in your trespasses today he left them so we can live today and he is about to return and take all of us those who fell asleep already those who died in Christ and those that are still alive we're going to be taken out of here Wow that is a wonderful wonderful separation the great separation of the church from God's judgment is about to come the Word of God is preached already all over the world Israel is back in the land Jerusalem means once again the center of world attention the world is pushing hard for global systems to be in place for to prepare the stage for the rule of the Antichrist but nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus the world I always tell people look Jesus gave us signs of the end so we will get ready for the great separation the world is moving so fast towards that the mystery of lawlessness is already at work indeed look around you people having their passports gender Ickx that's it we're changing creation we're changing the Bible we're changing God's Word we're changing everything the mystery of lawlessness is already at work delusion is all around people believe their own lies deception is everywhere one of the things Jesus said will be in the last days deception you will be deceived and to seed from within and from outside be ready be sober look around and the only way you can detect deception is if you are holding on to the Word of God and if you read and if you eat and devour and you know it because when you know the Word of God they cannot deceive you we are in this world but not of this world do not confirm but be transformed romans 12:1 2:2 i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies as living sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is your reasonable service and do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind do you let the world change your mind or do you let the word change your mind but one thing is for sure the renewing of the mind is the way for us to be conformed because the world is conditioning us conditioning us to a specific things they will push it to you they will tell you they will boycott you if you don't think like them they will tolerate you if you like them they will not tolerate you if you're not like them you have to have a renewal of the mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect not will of man but the will of God not the will of the world but the will of the Lord the great and ultimate physical separation is attend and you must choose your side remember whoever is for the Lord come to me Moses said and only the Levites came to him can you imagine 12 tribes and only one that tell you that when the rapture happens you will be surprised who is going to be raptured and who is not going to be and by the way this is going to be the first international gathering of all believers on planet Earth together at the same time by the way if you're in Israel it's faster they say when you pray in Israel it's a local call but from everywhere at the same time in a twinkling of an eye at a trumpet blast ping we're gone and we will all see each other first and I'm not gonna say hey where is no Romans 13 says do this knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now our salvation is near than when we first believed the night is far spent the day is at hand therefore let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light let us walk properly as in the day not in revelry and drunkenness not in lewdness and love not in strife and envy but put out put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts Romans 8 says for we know that the whole creation groans and Labor's with birth pangs together until now not only that but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit even we ourselves groan within ourselves eagerly waiting for the adoption the redemption of what our body not our souls not our mind our body we want it to be redeemed out of here for we were saved in this hope but hope that is seen is not hope for why does one still hope for what he sees but it if we hope for what we do not see we eagerly wait for it with perseverance and I'm asking you tonight are you ready for the great separation and more so are you ready for the great union that we're going to have in heaven come on we're gonna see Jesus face to face and the Bible says and we will never ever be separated from him again that's it yes here you are yeah don't worry I'm not going anywhere and you're looking around and all of us will have such great bodies all of our bodies will change look at you now Oh yourself it's a lowly body that's why the Bible says in a moment in trick we will all change we have to change in order to be taken out of here this body ain't going up there you understand once you change gravity won't have any more power we're out of here we're gone with our new glorified mmm in heaven everybody will stand in front of the mirror look at this you can eat anything you want you will never be late no more traffic Edd's ax is nothing if you think this is the kingdom of God now go to Ed's are you ready for the great union and by the way the union in Christ is not only union with us in Christ the Union for example between Jews and Gentiles in Christ there was union between all believers from all nations union with the Lord Himself the walls of separation between the Jews and Gentiles were broken Ephesians says for he himself is our peace who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation while we are separated from the evil world and the wicked world there is a great unity that God is providing in Christ Jesus and that wall of separation is gone Galatians 3 for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither slave nor free there is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus and if you are Christ then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise Wow the great separation is around the corner and we need to make sure that at least between us there are no walls of separation we need to be united we need to have unity between the Jews and the Gentiles believers we need to have unity between all believers all around the world and we need to prepare for the unity with Christ Jesus but we cannot do that without the Holy Spirit we cannot do that without being born again and I will end up with this make sure that you have oil in your lamps the Bible tells us of that amazing parable of the ten virgins they were all looking the same they're all thought we're okay and when the bridegroom came he only took those who had oil in their lamps oil is a typology is the Holy Spirit's only when you were born again you have the gift and the promise of the holy spirit if you're born again in spirit field you should know that you're ready and therefore you shall be encouraged father we thank you we thank you that you turn around the meaning of the word separation from something so bad to something we should look forward we thank you that although it's a word with horrible connotation father you're about to separate us from the world and unite us with Jesus and we are looking forward to the great separation so father we pray that tonight all of us here will be ready with oil in their lamps for when that great separation comes and it is around the corner according to the signs that you told us that will characterize the days before father we ask but if anyone here is not ready yet for the great separation tonight he will separate himself from everything that holds him back tonight he will understand the meaning of being transformed with the renewal of the mind we thank you and we bless you and we pray all of this in the matchless and the most beautiful name of the Holy One of Israel the king of kings and the Lord of lords the Lion of the tribe of Judah emanuelle the Prince of Peace in the name of Yeshua our salvation the name of Jesus we pray and all of God's people say a

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