Christians are called to be “set apart” from this world of wickedness, selflessness, corruption, self glorifying and all the evils that one can think off, however we are not the first people to be called “SET APART” in this world. As we journey through you will begin to understand what set apart means, who is set apart, and how being set apart affects your daily living a worthy live that will make the Almighty God pleased when we walked according to His will. Throughout this bible study we will add history in blue to coincide with this bible study. We will begin with history through the Word of God of who was selected to be called:
Genesis 12:2-3 and Genesis 18:18-19 In Genesis God called Abraham to be “set apart” from his family, friends, and where he lived. At that moment he had a choice to make to either ignore the calling or accept the calling. What did Abraham do, he chose to obey the call of God. When he chose to obey God that made him a “Set apart “ not just physically from everyone, but mentally, emotionally and in his actions.
Why did God call Abraham?
Who knows, but the most important part of this is he was called. In scripture it says that many are called but few are chosen ( Matthew 22:14 ). So, Abraham accepted the calling and did what God asked him to do. We will see what happens further down.
What Does It Mean To Be “Set Apart?”
All the “SET APART “ are marked out
To be “set apart” means = to keep or save (something), someone, things, country, places for a particular purpose and to be a quality that makes (someone or something) better than or different from other people or things. Israel is a set apart for God and God alone. You can see this all through the entire bible. Anytime that they go out of the plans, patterns and the purposes of God, He give them the punishment thy they deserve. He told them that Ha will not share them with anyone. He made them unique, special, peculiar, severed them from the Egyptians and all the horrible plagues that came upon the disobedient Pharaoh and his people. Because of Israel God’s “set apart,” the Red Sea was divided into two by the power of God in other that they could walk through as a dry wall and even be walls for them. He discomforted Pharaoh and his people in very despicable way, first God removed the wheel of their wagons before they even had chance to enter the Red Sea then finally God made the parted water to over flow and the enemies of Israel drowned and perished forevermore.
OH if only the believers in Jesus Christ understand what God’s “set apart” is and meant to God, how that God Almighty, creator of heavens and earth had engraved all believers names in the heart – God, who came to the world in the person of Jesus Christ, who gave Himself a name EMMANUEL, God with Us.
As Jesus Christ He suffered the most horrific beatings, was a “set apart”was crowned with thorns, was stripped of any dignity, He carried the heaviest load in the world, what was the load? your sins and my sins. Jesus Christ who knows no sin became our sins carrier. Oh what a deed, oh what love, love love that has no boundaries, such love that He gave to all believers in Him free so that we can enjoy paradise in the new Jerusalem as the children of the Most High God for eternity. He had prepaid for us paradise. He made us to be co-heirs in His Kingdom for eternity. Ah! Ah! Ah! believers whom He had made a “Set apart” before He put us in our mothers womb and before the foundation of the world. Who had planned, patterned and purposed that we are for Him and Him alone. Jesus Christ gave us believers glory and washed us in His own blood that He shed on the cross where He bled to death that we might be saved from the Claws, deceitfulness, manipulative and wickedness of Satan.
What will make this Jesus Happy who bought us believers with His life which is His blood, Genesis 9.4
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man
He gave us believers His feasts days, His Sabbath, Commandments and New year for us His set apart. He served us for Himself alone, Yet almost all believers rejected this commandments of God.
We believers obeyed the feats of the world and knowingly abandoned the things of God
How can we say we love Jesus Christ when we ignore the the feats days and others
