GRACE James 4:4-6 Part 2 of 2

You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble."  

don't you know that friendship with the world 
James 1:27  Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

means enmity against God 
Romans 8:7-8  The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
1 John 2:15-17  Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God 
John 15:19  "If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us 
1 Corinthians 6:19-20  Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

"God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble" 
Proverbs 3:34  He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.

Matthew 23:12  "For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."


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