Title: Get Out of there
2012. 4. 29 Sunday morning worship service
Bible: Revelation 18:4-5
Title: Get out of there
Revelation 18:4-5 ‘4. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, and do not partake of her sins, and receive not of her plagues. 5. His sins have reached heaven, and God has remembered his iniquities.' .
This text commands us not to be stained with the sins of the last days. The text says, Come out of there, my people. I am going to look into the words under the title <Come out of there>.
1. God is the one who sets apart
Just as God separated light and darkness, heaven and earth, sea and dry land when He first created the world, He makes the people who will be saved separate from the world.
2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ‘14. Do not be yokeed with the unbeliever. What has righteousness and lawlessness, and what has light and darkness, 15. What has Christ and Belial, and what does believer and unbeliever have to do with each other?
In verse 4, it was so, my people. My people, those who believe in our Jesus now, have a different view of history, world view, and future view from the world. It cannot be united with secularism as it cannot mix with oil and water. Luke 16:26 says that heaven and hell are inextricably separated from each other.
Regarding the existence of the renewed self, Paul confessed in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “...the old things have passed away; behold, the new has come.”
2. The people who must get out of there
He commands us to come out of the world of sin. To emerge is to separate the mind from the body before life.
Ecclesia (ejkklhsiva) means the church that came out of the world (to call put), just as Israel came out of Egypt.
He brought Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldeans, the hometown of the idol city (Gen. 11; -12:1), He brought Israel out of Egypt (Ex 14:), and He brought Lot out of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:).
Text, Rev 18:4 'And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, and do not share in her sins, and do not receive from her plagues.' Each of you flee from the wrath of the LORD.' It has the same meaning.
It also means to avoid ejxevrcomai, my people, to come out of there. The word there is the third person feminine pronoun aujtov", from her, because Babylon is a symbolic city of the great harlot (Revelation 17:5).
Jeremiah 50:8 “Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, come out of the land of the Chaldeans, like the goats that go before the flock.”
Even when we go back into the world with the Gospel, we sometimes have to avoid places that we should avoid as the Holy Spirit leads us. Matthew 10:23 “If they persecute you in one town, flee to that town…”
John 5:13 ‘…because there were many people there, Jesus had already fled’
In the days of Noah, it is said that the earth was filled with iniquity, Genesis 6:11, "Then the whole earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence."
Text, Revelation 18:5 “His sins reached up to heaven, and God remembered his iniquities.” It is said that iniquity reached up to heaven.
When sin exceeds the limit, God may also cover the world with water in the days of Noah or burn Sodom and Gomorrah with fire.
Like the history of the British Christians who went to the United States because it was difficult to endure severe persecution, there are cases in which reforms are necessary and situations in which they have to leave.
In the life of the saints living in the last days, it is difficult to escape and live according to goodness as sin is rampant everywhere in the world. Like a medieval monastery, it is difficult to live only in a prayer center, and you must live in the world anyway, but you must always live as a reform movement so that your heart can escape from secularism. And if it is necessary to separate their lives, they will have to change their lives and escape from the calamities they receive.