Ezekiel 11:12
Thus you will know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in My statutes nor have you executed My ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.
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Although the Lord has made it clear since man was exiled from the Garden that we, the children of God, the redeemed of the Lord, are to be different than those who are not. There is constant pressure on us to be just like them—like the world rather than like the Word!

Do not lose sight of the fact that we are the family of God! All who have received Jesus, who believed in his name, He gave the right to become children of God. {Jn.1:12} Jesus Himself would tell us that whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother. {Mat.12:50} The true fellowship of the saints is what is typically called church. Jesus did not come to earth and die on the cross to start a new religion, but rather to restore an old relationship—His family!

For now we are in but are not of the world. {Jn.17:11,14} Our thinking, our speech and our actions, our beliefs and, well pretty much our everything, should be like Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Just as the apostle Paul wrote: "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.” {Eph.5:1-2}

The problem would seem to be that, ever since the Fall in the Garden when Adam and the woman disobeyed God, this present world lies under the influence of the evil one who is the father of lies. {1Jn.5:19} Which is certainly why we have been instructed—commanded—not to learn the way of the nations, the unbelievers. {Jer.10:2}

Yet, we live in their midst and are constantly pressured to conform to their ways, the way of the world. We send our children off to their schools to learn from them, we watch their movies, read their books, celebrate their holidays, play at their politics, etc., etc. and therefore are hard-put not to be like them.

That was the very issue that the Lord was dealing with through the prophet Ezekiel as some of the ‘leaders’ of the people were devising iniquity and giving evil advice in the city of God, Jerusalem! {Ez.11:1-2} The people should have remembered, as we must always do, to be like the ‘noble-minded’ Bereans receiving the Word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things being taught are so. {Acts 17:11}

It is a constant spiritual battle! And so, the Lord has made provision telling us:

   “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
   For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:10-12)

And P.S.: We would also be surely blessed to continue on reading Ephesians 6:13-18

BE THE FAITHFUL REMNANT!