Page 26 - The Chosen People

12. i. The same hopes upon worldly and

national greatness that they so

desired was turned into outward

service to God. It became a “form of

godliness” (2 Timothy 3:5).

ii. Their obedience was not prompted

by love, it was motived by

selfishness, and instead of being the

light of the world, they shut

themselves away from the world to

escape temptation to idolatry.

iii. The restriction God placed upon

their association with idolaters to

prevent them from conforming to

the rites and practices of the

heathen was used to build a wall of

separation between themselves

and those to whom they were to be

a light.