2 Corinthians 6:18 Commentary and Bible Study

‘I want you in my family,’ says the Lord, ‘but I cannot establish my family among those who hate me. Come around me and then I will bless you.’ Separation is just another name for sanctification and we do not call that negative. Separation means to be devoted. It is being loyal to the Lord, untainted, and genuine. But the ecumenist claims to love everybody and says that those who separate are unloving, carping, critical. Some evangelicals do this and justify it by saying, ‘I must have more of the Spirit of God because I love everybody.’ But when Jehoshaphat went to held the ungodly Ahab, God sent the prophet to say to him, ‘Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD’ (2 Chronicles 19:2).