It has been well said that the one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history. Psalm 106 certainly bear this out. It is a record of how the people of Israel were blessed and then sinned. God helped them repeatedly, and they repeatedly sinned. We see one cause of their sin in verse 5. There’s step one—they started mingling and breaking down the walls of separation. God had warned Israel not to mingle among the nations. They were not to get involved with them, but they “learned their works” (v.35). First we mingle with the world, and then we start learning the world’s way of doing things. And before long, Israel “served their idols, which became a snare to them” (v.36). The mingled, they learned, and they served.

The tragedy is that the families suffered the most (v.37). Thus, they lost the next generation.

Many Christians today have broken down the walls of separation. They are mingling with and serving the world and figuratively sacrificing their own children to demons (v.39). Israel was married to Jehovah God, but she was unfaithful to her marriage vows.

Don’t be defiled by the world. Keep your walk with the Lord Holy.

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Sin contaminates. That’s why you need “walls of separation.” Don’t mingle with the world, for one step of compromise will lead to another. Keep your heart clean of sin and do not entertain temptations. Let nothing come between you and your relationship with God.