Scripture Post #2,167: *DEPART FROM WICKED MEN*

 

Numbers 16:26:

“And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.”

Moses warned the children of Israel to *DEPART FROM WICKED MEN*. Men (namely: Korah, Dathan and Abiram) who had rebelled against the LORD, provoking the LORD to extinguish them. 

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” ~Ephesians 5:11. 

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,” ~2nd Corinthians 6:17. 

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” ~James 4:4. 

1st John 2:15: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

Verse 16: “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

Originally Published: Sun. 8 • 19 • 18