Paul tells the Corinthian people in 11Cor. 6:17, "Come out from among them and be ye separate says the Lord and touch not any unclean thing and I will receive you. The word separate is the Greek word aphorizo; It means that; there must be a boundary that the born again believer must see and understand where they will not cross over and leave God's protective hedge and participate in unclean things.

Born again believers must have a spiritual vision with determination to explore and seek after a endless range with no limits of God's interests, by using His wisdom and knowledge and be participating in their God given call for their life; which can only take place by having a personal relationship with Christ Jesus through the Holy Ghost. If they try to obtain this separation with their natural mind by their own reasoning and planning; they will never come to comprehend the true love of God. Now there are consequences we have to endure if; we do not understand how to be separated unto the Lord?

Paul in Romans 8:35 states. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness or peril or sword?" We see here that unless we are living separated with in God's protective hedge there are the seven consequences coming against us that we will not be able to deal with.

These seven entities are the mind set of the devil to bring distress to God‘s creation because; he is the ruler of the natural world that we all live in. All of God's creation labors under these living entities. Where God brings us love and mercy; the devil brings us fear and disruption in all these form.

Let's define these seven entities so we can be better equipped to know the devil's devices and how he tries to come to steal, kill and destroy every chance he gets. Only people who are ignorant of how to do spiritual warfare end up as sheep being led to be slaughtered.

Tribulation
Extreme anxiety with mental distress with feelings of being crowded and lost in a crowd of people and you feel you need special attention however; no body really cares. Scripture tells us that we are God's sheep and he is our Sheppard who leads us in green pastures and besides still waters; this is a person living a separated life style unto the Lord. The consequences is a person feeling like a he-goat who gnaws when their eating and eventually wears it into nothing. Having this goat mentality gnawing at us keeps us wounded in soul and body.

This gnawing represents a laboring of duties that have to be performed causing a person to not rest in their daily walk with the Lord. They live with an uncertainty of coming events and work hard at surviving and getting their daily choirs done. Cares of life are things we all have to deal with are good however; they must be cast on the Lord to sustain our peace in the process. A person can get to the point of being so duty driven that; they live in such stress that it can bring them physical illness and unrest to their soul.

Distress
These are feelings of being abandoned and at times feeling that you are wandering looking for some safe harbor to call home. You live with a sense of being unprotected and having an uncertainty of coming events with no Godly vision of having success.

Persecution
Having a lack of courage; having no trust in God or the people around you and constantly staying on the defensive. Having a feeling of being a slave to circumstances and in an inferior position and that your nothing but a errand boy and subject to events that you have no control over.

Famine
Trying to managing and stay alive especially when there is barely enough food or money for survival. Fear of not being able to pay the bills. Looking for love in all the wrong places because due too having a low self image you feel unworthy of receiving God's love and kindness.

Nakedness
Feelings of not being protected and you are mentally under attack and feeling defenseless causing it to be very difficult to be honest with your evaluations of life and it causes you to live in denial and not be able to deal with life issues.

Peril
Uneasy feeling that you are in danger and not being able to identify with the cause. When ever God tries to add some healing and blessing in your life you are not able to identify with His love verses the devil's influence coming to destroy you in some area.

Sword
All these other entities can be summed up in this word sword. The sword represents feelings that you deserve punishment for your faults causing a spirit of condemnation to have control over your life and it makes your born again experience of none effect in dealing with life issues. This is the spirit of strife that carries with it all the demonic evil that be inflicted on the born again believer. Strife can create some bitter and violent conflicts in the life of the believer.
This is the atmosphere of entities that we come under attack by that we all fight against daily that Jesus tells us; he overcame them when He walked the planet. Unless we know how to be separated unto the Lord and the hands on meaning of it; we will in our ignorance touch unclean things and reap the consequences of these seven entities. This is not a religious game but the meaning of life it self.

Our separation unto the Lord began when we were infused by the blood Jesus shed on the cross and by us accepting His sacrifice; we became a son or daughter of God. Just as we are physical beings and have our mother and father's DNA in us at birth; so do we have all of the characteristics of God our Father in us after becoming born again from above. You must stay focused on this fact that; no matter what obstacles come against you in life; you can never get out of God's family as being His child although you can live as a pauper and rag time member because of not knowing your privileges and how to live in a palace mentality with God your Father.

I have been describing from scripture what our fighting the good fight of faith is all about. Our choice is; knowing our separated state unto the Lord or being defeated by these seven entities that I have described from scripture.

In order to live in our separated state in the Lord and over come these entities we must believe that the strength and power we need to understand the Christian arena is found in God's last will testament which is the word of God. With out having a meditating life style on the word of God both day and night; life is wasted on trivial pursuits that carry no weight in a person walking in victory. A meditater lives with an inquisitive mind and is constantly searching for Godly Wisdom because; that is what sustains and secures his life.

11Tim. 3:16-17 Paul tells Timothy. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; so that the man of God will be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."

Let's stay focused; all this inspiration by God on knowing our righteousness in Him. Righteousness is the key to successful living if we want to live at peace with God and we can have no other teaching counterfeits trying to fit the bill.

The counterfeits being preached from pulpits across the world and especially in America is mind staggering. Every thing but our righteous position in Christ is running ramped in Christian circle. Our righteousness in Christ has nothing to do with our behavior and law breaking of his commandments. Born again believers are in bondage to deviant behavior because; that do not know how to walk and breath their righteous position in Christ. Righteous in the Greek definition is God looking at us His children the same way He saw His first born son Jesus as being blameless, free from evil and SEPERATED unto God His father. It was our born again experience and God's miraculous power that permanently separated us unto the Lord and not any thing we could or can do through our own will power.

Our natural mind can not comprehend this because it functions in a right and wrong mentality by judging it self which is the cursed entity that we were born with because of Adam our greattttttt grand fathers fall from God's grace or unmerited favor. Our separation unto the Lord is God's gift to mankind by sending His best love Gift in His Son to the cross to deliver us into the righteous person we became by Jesus one act. There is no righteousness unless we have become born again by God's Spirit.

Unless the pulpits of the world stay focused when trying to teach the body of Christ how to walk in victory on their unblemished nature and they understand that; God their Father looks at them with out spots or wrinkles; the body of Christ will continue to look under their white robes of Jesus own perfection and judge them self as sinners. Scripture tells us they we sank into a pure white garment which is Christ Jesus Him self and we have become the saints of God. Jesus from scripture is called The King of Saints.

This whole idea of not touching any unclean thing has nothing to do with deviant behavior. When a person does not know how to walk in their righteous position and the favor they have in God's sight; they automatically touch and reason in their mind with unclean behavioral patterns and self judgment. This is extremely serious to think you can love the Lord and be tying to work your salvation as scripture tells us in fear and trembling and still be touching unclean things. Fear and trembling does not mean; living in fear and guilt that God is going to call to task with His disapproval.

Fear in trembling is meant to be the physical and mental atmosphere to sense the presence of the Lord and His miracle working power touching your life mentally and physically. This has to be a personal knowing relationship with God and not some rules for living and feeling 0bligated to obey and having to suffer the consequences.

Let's define this scripture and what Paul meant when he said that righteousness is a profitable doctrine used for reproof and correction towards righteousness. We must identify the process in our thought life so that we can become confident in the process.
Continued in part 2