Go dogs, and eat the garbage. By Charles Spurgeon

2 Corinthians 6, verses 14-18

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? Therefore come out from them, and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

I believe that one reason why the church at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church. Nowadays, we hear mere professors pleading that they may do this and may do that, that they may live like worldlings. My sad answer to them, when they crave this liberty, is, do it if you dare. It may not cost you much hurt, for you are so bad already. Your worldly cravings show how rotten your hearts are. If you are hungering after such dog's food, then go dogs and eat the garbage.

Worldly amusements are fit food for pretenders and hypocrites. If you were God's children, then you would loathe the thought of the world's evil joys. Your question would not be, How far may we be like the world? But your cry would be, How can we get away from the world? How can we come out of it?

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but from the world.