Separation From Sin Message 5

INTRO: Our subject is not the most palatable, to put it mildly. It is what I have called the neglected doctrine; the doctrine of sin. Our first main point has been separation from sin in the world. The point to follow that will be separation from sin in the Church. At first I intended to cover this subject in brief. But once I got started I sensed the urgency of doing a more thorough coverage of this subject.
In the area of separation from sin in the world, we looked at what the term ‘world’ generally means in Scripture. It speaks of lost mankind, not the earth. It speaks of that realm which lies fully in the hands of Satan. And so the world is all of lost mankind; atheists, secularists, Mormons, Catholics, Muslims, Budhists, etc… etc… All of that makes up the world, and all of that we are positionally separated from the moment we become Christians. But the practical separation is another thing. Just like Israel of old, as hard a time as God had of getting Israel out of Egypt, He had a harder time getting Egypt out of Israel.
Then we spoke of worldly appearances. I was given some messages to listen to by S. M. Davis on dress. He says dress is a language. He certainly is right. When you stop to ponder this, there is much that can be read out of the way a person dresses. I mentioned in the last message the picture on Music covers. Most times that is all you have to see and you know what is in the music.