Friendship with God or the World

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Friendship with God or the World
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We Cannot Be Friends with the World and God at
the Same Time
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We Cannot Be Friends with the World and God at
the Same Time

• James 44
• Do you not know that friendship with the world
  is enmity with God?

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We Cannot Be Friends with the World and God at
the Same Time

• Hebrews 514
• But solid food belongs to those who are of full
  age, that is, those who by reason of use have
  their senses exercised to discern both good and
  evil.

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We Cannot Be Friends with the World and God at
the Same Time

• Philippians 19
• And this I pray, that your love may abound
  still more and more in knowledge and all
  discernment

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The Word Friendship Means
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The Word Friendship Means

• the idea of loving as well as being loved
  Vines

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The Word Friendship Means

• the idea of loving as well as being loved
  Vines
• Friendship means acceptance.

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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God
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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God

• James 44
• Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the
  world makes himself an enemy of God.

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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God

• What does the word make mean?

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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God

• What does the word make mean?
• to do Vines

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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God

• What does the word make mean?
• to do Vines
• to be the author of
  
  Vines

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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God

• What does the word make mean?
• to do Vines
• to be the author of
  
  Vines
• to cause Vines

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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God

• War Against God

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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God

• War Against God
• Lead Us Away

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A Friendship of the World will Make You an Enemy
of God

• War Against God
• Lead Us Away
• Lose Interest

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We Must Make a Clear Decision for God!
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We Must Make a Clear Decision for God!

• Matthew 1624
• If anyone desires to come
  
  
  after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his
  cross, and
  follow Me.

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We Must Make a Clear Decision for God!

• I John 215
• Do not love the world or the things in the
  world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the
  Father is not in him.

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We Must Make a Clear Decision for God!

• Romans 122
• And do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you
  may prove what is that good
  and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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We Must Make a Clear Decision for God!

• Romans 121
• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
  is your reasonable service.

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Are You Gods Friend?