"You'd have to go out of the world," 1 Corinthians 5:10.
In order to do what? This: To get away from all evil activity, we'd have to exit life altogether. The remotest monastery whether on top of a foreboding mountain, or way out in a harsh desert, or behind impregnable walls in an urban center, cannot separate a person from the problem of sin. Why not? because it's from within that comes all kinds of evil, not from outside. We backpack it in with us wherever we go. Instead, God's holy monastery is the church of his first-born, right smack dab in the middle of all humanity. Its mission offers sincerity and truth to all surrounding sinners who want it.
We visit with a brother or sister today associating with no malice and evil among us, his saints. And together we thank God who purifies us in the blood of the Passover lamb.
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