The world wants mixers, but God wants separators.
The first thing God did to Abraham was absolute separation. Exactly. You’ve got to separate yourself from all unbelief. Get away from it. That’s it. You’ve got to get away from unbelief.
God called Abraham to separate himself from his kindred, from everything that he had, that he might walk with Him. Give him a strange land. That’s the way every sinner when he gets saved, comes into a strange land, among strange people. God calls for a separation.
The world wants mixers, but God wants separators. That’s right. Separate yourself from all the things of the world. God wants somebody to separate themself. And the children of Abraham, God’s children, they separate themselves from the things of the world. The Bible said, “Come out from among them and be not partakers of their unclean thing. And I will receive you unto Myself, and you’ll be sons and daughters to Me, and I will be God to you.” Separators…
Now, Abraham had to separate himself from his kindred, from his people. And another thing he was asked to do, he was asked to sojourn in a strange land, with a strange people, speaking a strange language.
Well, it’s just the same today, just doesn’t change. Men are to separate yourself and to walk with a different people. You young men that come to Christ, when you used to go down to the pool room, you stay away from that territory, and go with those boys who’s goes to church and to prayer meeting.
You women that used to have your pink tea parties, and tell little jokes, and call it your stitch-and-sew and sew-and-stitch, and stitch-and-sew and talk about miss so-and-so, you get away from that kind of a party and go to an old fashion prayer meeting.
And in your church where you used to boil up some old tough rooster and sell him for fifty cents a plate so you could pay the pastor off. You quit that: the church that gets right with God, God’s got a program how to take care of the preacher, if you’ll just take care of that. That’s right. You don’t have to have soup suppers and all these other things. God just takes care of it if you just follow His program. We are to separate ourselves from all these things.
Now, turn over another page to Genesis Now, we find in Genesis 18 there was a great sign given him. Now remember, God told Abraham in Genesis 12, also, to separate himself from all of his people, all of his kindred, and to sojourn with Him as a stranger in a strange land.
Now, God wants separators; now, the people wants mixers. Oh, my! Today they got to have a little Hollywood guy, you know, and—and, you know, all this, and it’s got to be a lot of flowers, and just color up. They don’t want the old-fashioned preacher that lays it right on the hewing line, they won’t have it, “He’s a fanatic, he’s a holy-roller.” That’s what they want, they want mixers, somebody that’ll go swimming with them, and somebody will play bunco with them, and somebody will go to dances, and not fanatics, see, they don’t want that. But God wants separators.
Separate yourself! The very word church means, “separated, called out.” “Come out from among them,” saith God, “and I’ll receive you, touch not their unclean things.” Separators, oh, Christian, separate yourself from everything of the world, brother, sister, get away from the things of the world, separate.
But then, we find out that there was some things that went with it. God told Abraham, as soon as He made him this promise, He said, “Separate yourself from your kindred.”
Now, the trouble with us, when we feeled or hear a promise of God, we go down and consult what this minister’s got to say, and what that’s got to say, and get amongst unbelievers, and everything—mix it all up together. No wonder we…God calls for separation. Separate yourself from the things of the world. And oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. Men and women who take God at His promise has to stand alone. God said so.
Now, I believe, if I understand, they got a telephone hookup somewhere, that this Message is going into Phoenix and to—and to different parts, by telephone. And so now we trust that if that’s so…I don’t know; just told that before coming in. And—and all the people out there are really enjoying good health and—and the Glory of the Lord upon them.
Source: Rev. William Marrion Branham
