We divide things all the time. Whites from colors before we wash. The yolk from the egg for better health. Our children when they bicker so we can have peace.
Sometimes we divide our finances into business and personal, savings and disposable, or into yours and mine. We want to track where the money goes.
God gave us our very first example, dividing the light from the darkness, the land from the waters, and the sun from the moon. He set things in order that the earth might function properly, and that his creation could know of his love.
Acts 2:38 tells us we need to divide our sin from our salvation.
“And Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’ ”
We divide sin from salvation with our repentance. We set sin off to one side, and we follow the path of salvation, through baptism and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
We find these instructions repeated in John 3:1-36. The key excerpt from this passage is here:
“Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’ Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ ”
Repentance. Baptism. The gift of the Holy Spirit. No sin allowed. If we want to walk after Christ, we have to divide the water of our lives, placing our sin aside, and choosing to turn our eyes to Jesus.
When we choose Jesus, we become a new creation, and life will abound within us.
Sin has no place in the world of the true believer in Christ.
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