Come out from the world

I think as Christians it is high time we truly begin to separate ourselves from this world.
It's easy to say, in fact we have been saying it for 2,000 years, but it is even more important now as society around us becomes more perverse by the minute.
The U.S. has quit being a God fearing nation and is quickly becoming a God hating nation, so we must come out from the world as James said.
"You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." — James 4:4-6
Notice the first thing James called the people who try and take part in the world, he called them adulterous. The definition of adultery is the voluntary relations between a married person and someone who is not his or her spouse.
Just a few years before James wrote this letter, Jesus had similar words for the people of Israel.
"An evil and adulterous nation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah. And he left them and went away." — Matthew 16:4
Here is what John Wesley said on the matter of that same verse.
"A wicked and adulterous generation — Ye would seek no farther sign, did not your wickedness, your love of the world, which is spiritual adultery, blind your understanding."
By taking part in the ways of the world, we are cheating on God. There is no other way around that.
Everything that goes on in the realm of this world stands in stark opposition to God and the gospel of Christ.
If some impartial being came here and observed us for just a normal day, not a Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon, would he be able to tell who was a Christian and who wasn't? Just because we claim the name of Christ does not mean we are in Christ. Do you get my point?
I am a big Houston Astros fan, but that doesn't mean I'm invited to take the field with the team. The same way with being a Christian. There are a lot of folks out there who like what Jesus had to say, but they will not accept what He did for them. They are not willing to leave this corrupt world behind for the free gift Christ offers us, paid for with his blood.
I wrote a few days ago that we cannot have dual citizenship. I am hitting on this topic again. Yes, it's fun to play politics and dream about how we would like to see things change. It is right for us to pray for this country, its leaders, and to pray that we would all turn back to God, it is right to vote and to exercise our other freedoms endowed to us by our Creator. But when we put this system of man in front of Jesus, even if we think we are accomplishing good, then we are committing adultery. We have to keep things in context. Christ comes first.
Peter called Christians "strangers in the world."
That is what we are, we should be recognizable by our actions. There should be no doubt in whose service we find ourselves.
"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
"Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against you soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us." — 1 Peter 2:9-12
We must all send our forwarding addresses to the world. Those in Christ are not long for this corrupt place, but before we go, let's take as many as we can with us, all we have to do is tell what Christ did and the Holy Spirit will do the rest.