FRIENDSHIP
OF THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD.
(James 4:4) Ye adulterers and adulteresses,
know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
* INTRODUCTION:
a. James gave the Christian a serious warning to all Christians who live
a double standard. Living being a believer
of but still cannot their old and former life in the World.
* ( Ephesians
4:19,21-32) [19]Who
being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all
uncleanness with greediness.
[21]If so be that ye have heard
him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
[22]That ye put off concerning the
former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful
lusts;
[23]And be renewed in the spirit
of your mind;
[24]And that ye put on the new
man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
[25]Wherefore putting away lying,
speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
[26]Be ye angry, and sin not: let
not the sun go down upon your wrath:
[27]Neither give place to the
devil.
[28]Let him that stole steal no
more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is
good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
[29]Let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that
it may minister grace unto the hearers.
[30]And grieve not the holy Spirit
of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
[31]Let all bitterness, and wrath,
and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all
malice:
[32]And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you.
b. Paul a serious warning and reminders to Christians in Ephesus. Paul
commanded to put away the sinful lifestyle of the old man and put on the new
man living a holy life proving we are genuine born-again Christian.
1. WHEN CHRISTIANS ARE IQUALY YOKE WITH THE UNBELIEVERS
YOU ARE MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE WORLD.
(II Corinthians
6:14-15) [14]Be ye
not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with
darkness?
[15]And what concord hath Christ
with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
* Paul gave a clear negative on righteousness cannot be go together with
unrighteousness and light cannot go together with darkness and believers with
unbelievers. Cannot go together.
2. WHEN CHRISTIANS LOVE THE WORLD AND FORSAKE ALL THEIR
SERVICE TO THE WORK OF THE LORD. YOU ARE MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE WORLD.
(IITimoteo 4:10) For Demas hath forsaken me, having
loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to
Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
* God commanded us to love not the World even the things in World.
1 John 2:15-17 [15]Love not the world, neither
the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him.
[16]For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not
of the Father, but is of the world.
[17]And the world passeth away,
and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
3. WHEN CHRISTIANS PARTAKES THE UNCLEANNESS WALK OF THE
UNGODLY PEOPLE. YOU ARE MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE WORLD.
( Ephesians 5:3-8 ) [3]But fornication, and all
uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh
saints;
[4]Neither filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
[5]For this ye know, that no
whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
[6]Let no man deceive you with
vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the
children of disobedience.
[7]Be not ye therefore partakers
with them.
[8]For ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
* God made clear to the Christian that those who the wicked lifestyle of
lost people in the World. But we are the Children of light that shineth in
darkness.
( Thessalonians
5:5-11) [5]Ye are
all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the
night, nor of darkness.
[6]Therefore let us not sleep, as
do others; but let us watch and be sober.
[7]For they that sleep sleep in
the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
[8]But let us, who are of the day,
be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the
hope of salvation.
[9]For God hath not appointed us
to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
[10]Who died for us, that, whether
we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
[11]Wherefore comfort yourselves
together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
4. WHEN CHRISTIANS ARE CHOOSING TO PARTAKES THE
UNPLEASING WORDS THAT CANNOT GLORIFY GOD. YOU ARE MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE
WORLD.
( Ephesians 5:5-8 ) [5]For this ye know, that no
whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
[6]Let no man deceive you with
vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the
children of disobedience.
[7]Be not ye therefore partakers
with them.
[8]For ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
* God is commanding us to speak always season with grace .
( Colossians 4:6 ) Let your speech be alway with
grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
5. WHEN CHRISTIANS ARE PARTAKERS OF THEIR UNACCEPTABLE
WICKEDNESS THAT GOD WARNS US NOT TO DO. YOU ARE MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE WORLD.
(Ephesians 5:10-16) [10]Proving what is acceptable
unto the Lord.
[11]And have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
[12]For it is a shame even to
speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
[13]But all things that are
reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is
light.
[14]Wherefore he saith, Awake thou
that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
[15]See then that ye walk
circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
[16]Redeeming the time, because
the days are evil.
* God is commanding us to do those things approve in the sight of God
and not the things that enmity against God.
(Philippians
1:10-11) [10]That
ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without
offence till the day of Christ;
[11]Being filled with the fruits
of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
b. Choose those things that are excellent in the eyes of God. Redeeming
the time for the days are evil.
c. Winning lost people are excellent decision to do in the eyes of God.
( John 4:35 ) Say not ye, There are yet four
months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
* Serving the Lord with humility of mind and many tears are excellent
decisions of the Christians.
( Acts 20:19 ) Serving the Lord with all humility
of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in
wait of the Jews:
* Supporting the Mission work financially is an excellent decision of
the Christian.
( Philippians
4:15-16 ) [15]Now ye
Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed
from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and
receiving, but ye only.
[16]For even in Thessalonica ye
sent once and again unto my necessity.
* God bless you all always *
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