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Worldliness
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” (Galatians 6:14).
The cross of Jesus erects a barrier that separates me, as a Christian, from Satan’s world. If I force myself around that cross and join hands with the world, then I have placed myself in a very serious position.
I recently heard of a young Christian lady who each Sunday morning remembered the Lord in His death at the breaking of bread. But she began to seek out friends and pleasures in the world. Her mother, quite concerned about her daughter’s behavior, quoted her the Scripture, “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” (James 4:4). Her response was, “Well then, I guess I’ll just have to be an enemy of God!” A few days later, she was killed in a terrible car crash. Don’t make the Lord speak to you like that!
Remember:“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”(1 John 2:16).
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