-Do not partake together. Do not join in. Don’t let yourself get sucked (back) in to the cult of excess, into the misuse of the gift of sex, into a life of dirty words and deeds, into the pursuit of a life lived with no regard for what God wants. Because wrath is coming. The wrath of God is on its way to be revealed and poured out on all those things, on all the unrighteousness of men, on those who have supressed the truth in unrighteousness, who have exchanged the truth of God for a lie. Living a lie. Because the truth here is that, that is not who you are. What is fundamentally true of you is, you are a saint. If you are in truth in Christ, you have been called out of all that to be separate and wholly other, just like the One Who called you. You are God’s child, an heir of the King. You have been pulled out of the muddy nasty river which runs wide and deep and fast, full of all those who are living into the lie of godlessness.
-So Paul is enjoining us not to be joining in with them, with the sons and daughters of disobedience, with all the ways they find to fill the place of God with something other than God. Don’t join in with them, do not do what they do, don’t be imitating them - remember, you should be imitating your heavenly Father. Walking in love and overflowing with gratitude. It doesn’t mean don’t ever be with them, for how else will they ever get a glimpse of Jesus, a whiff of God’s great love and joy and breathtaking goodness emanating out of your spiritual pores? The time already past is more than sufficient for you to have indulged your flesh in these things. You’ve made more than enough mud pies in the slums already. Something better is being offered here, something else is ours for the taking...
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