Abraham was separated unto God

By Nick Bibile

Genesis 25

In Genesis 25 we see the death of Abraham.

Now beloved, if you see the big picture you will see that God called one person out of his own country, out of idolatry and God wanted that person to be separated from the rest of the world and be holy before God. God wanted his promise seed to do the same.

Abraham came from the land of Chaldea. This was the land of idolatry.

Jer 50:35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

Jer 50:38 says land of graven images.

There was idolatry and corruption in the rest of the world but to have a true church, meaning people who will worship the true God should be separated from the rest of the world. Now before when there was wickedness in the earth God destroyed the earth with a flood, but this time God did not destroy the earth but called Abraham and his family out of the world and to be separated unto God from the rest of the world. This was God’s great work towards the work of redemption. It was necessary for the seed of the woman where Christ was going to come to be separated from the rest of the world.

So that this calling of Abraham was a kind of a new foundation laid for the visible church of God, built on a  foundation where  Christ should actually come. Abraham is called the father of the church, the father of all that believe in Christ, he was a foundation, root and offspring, rose as a tree, distinct from all other plants, but out of that tree came a branch of Righteousness, Christ  Jesus, after Christ, the natural branches were broken off, and the Gentiles were grafted into the same tree. So that Abraham still remains the father of the church, or root of the tree, through Christ his seed.

Dear beloved God still wants the church to be separated from the rest of the world, meaning distinct from the world as God cannot be joined together with the idols and devils, with truth and falsehood. But it is necessary that the church would be visible in the world, where the members of God’s family scattered all over the world who are united in Christ Jesus and the visible church is the lighthouse to the world where sinners can be drawn to the feet of Christ.

The true church is distinguished by the purity of doctrine and obedience to God.

C. H. Spurgeon gave a sermon about 152 years ago, called “A Solemn Warning for All Churches”.You can scarcely meet with a man who does not call himself a Christian, and yet it is equally hard to meet with one who is in the very marrow of his bones thoroughly sanctified to the good work of the kingdom of heaven. The whole nation appears to have been Christianized in an hour. But is this real? Is this sincere? Ah! we fear not. How is it that there is so little distinction between the church and the world? Spurgeon went on to say, but ye have lost the pure word of God.

Look at our own denomination: see how it has deserted the leading truths of the gospel. For a proof hereof, I refer you to hundreds of our pulpits. Oh church of God! I am but a voice crying in the wilderness, but I must cry still, "How art thou fallen from heaven, thou son of the morning! how art thou fallen!" "Remember how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent." If thou dost not watch, thy Master will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know in what hour he will come unto thee.