External Foes

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External Foes

• 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.
• James 44
• February 17, 2008

2
The World

• I John 216-17
• 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.
• The world - Human Life and Society
• Opposed to God
• Material Aims and Objects

3
Worldly Habits, Fashions Worldly Pleasures

• 2 Timothy 31-4
• 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous
  times shall come.
• 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
  covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
  disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false
  accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those
  that are good,
• 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
  pleasures more than lovers of God

4
Business Persecution

• I Timothy 69-10
• 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation
  and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful
  lusts, which drown men in destruction and
  perdition.
• 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil
  which while some coveted after, they have erred
  from the faith, and pierced themselves through
  with many sorrows.
• II Timothy 312
• Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
  shall suffer persecution.
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5
Judas Iscariot

• John 670-71
• 70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you
  twelve, and one of you is a devil?
• 71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon
  for he it was that should betray him, being one
  of the twelve.

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John Sung

• Chinese Evangelist
• Son of a Chinese Methodist minister
• Union Theological Seminary
• Three Degrees
• Spiritual Transformation
• 193 Days in Insane Asylum
• Bible and Pen 40 times
• Preaching in China for 15 years
• Died on August 18, 1944 at the age of 43
• To him, faith was watching God work while you
  were on your knees.