Nuggets from "Whatever Happened to Heaven?" by Dave Hunt | thebereancall.org

Hunt, Dave

Nuggets from "Whatever Happened to Heaven?" by Dave Hunt

It is not surprising that the church established by Christ is also called "a peculiar [separate, distinct] people" (1 Peter:2:9). The Old Testament injunction to Israel to "come out from among them [the worldly], and be ye separate" (2 Corinthians:6:17) is applied by Paul to the church. Comprising both Jews and Gentiles, the church is separate and distinct from all the rest of the world, including Israel. Christians, as citizens of heaven, are not to adopt the lifestyles of the unsaved, nor their fleshly ambitions and interests, and are certainly not to marry those who do not belong to Christ. Nor are believers to become partners in business, or in any other way to be "unequally yoked together with unbelievers" (verse 14). Unfortunately, as with modern Israel, the modern church has also largely abandoned the principle of separation.