James 4:1-4 (ESV)
Warning Against Worldliness
“[1] What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? [2] You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. [3] You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. [4] You adulterous people! Do you not know that FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD is “ENMITY WITH GOD”? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of GOD.”
ENMITY: Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.
One of the most difficult things to do is to knowingly alienate people who live life in OPPOSITION to Scripture, antithetical (or opposite)to THE WORD OF GOD. This morning I will allow the WORD OF GOD to deliver THE MESSAGE instead of my commentary!
FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD is “ENMITY WITH GOD”!!!
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