{"id":130230,"date":"2021-10-18T04:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T09:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=130230"},"modified":"2021-10-16T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T13:45:09","slug":"29-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/18\/29-c\/","title":{"rendered":"29.c. “Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1 Colossians 1:21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Ephesians 2:1-2<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0And you were dead in the trespasses and sins\u00a0\u00a0in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>James 4:4<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Romans 8:7-8<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.\u00a0\u00a0Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Romans 5:9-10<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.\u00a0\u00a0For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Belonging to the race of Adam, we are born\u00a0alienated\u00a0from God. Then as individuals, we each choose to accept and embrace that alienation with our\u00a0wicked works. God\u2019s answer to the problem of\u00a0alienation\u00a0is\u00a0reconciliation<\/i>, initiated by His work on the cross (reconciled in the body of His flesh through death). In the work of reconciliation, God didn\u2019t meet us halfway. God meets us all the way and invites us to accept it. This means that in Jesus we are\u00a0no longer <\/i>alienated. The difference between a believer and a non-believer isn\u2019t merely forgiveness; there is a complete change of status. The desire to be saved means a desire to be made holy, blameless, and above reproach, not merely a desire to escape the fires of hell on our own terms. There ought to be a transformative change in us. Something that is\u00a0 <\/span>continually cultivated, nurtured, and persevered in. There ought to be a continual working, a persistence, in our desire to honor and glorify Jesus Christ in all that we say, think, and do. Be steadfast and do not allow any worldly or fleshly desires move your feet down paths where Jesus Christ is not honored or glorified.\u00a0 <\/span>This transformative life never stops being transformed.\u00a0 <\/span>We continual to grow in our understanding and knowledge of the grace, mercy, and love of Jesus Christ if that is truly the desire of our heart, mind, and soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  1 Colossians 1:21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from … Continue reading “29.c. “Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1714,3342,4136,324,521,7486,5074,1715,2,304,76,38,15411,15412,5097,165,2805,36,196,6244,6626,619,4091,5642,518,352,2287,3215,315,5282,179,2877,5018,322,1602],"class_list":["post-130230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-alienated","tag-blood","tag-creation","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-disobedience","tag-enemy-of-god","tag-evil-deeds","tag-faith","tag-flesh","tag-god","tag-heaven","tag-holy-blemeless","tag-hope-gospel","tag-hostile","tag-jesus","tag-justified","tag-life","tag-mind","tag-paul","tag-please","tag-power","tag-proclaimed","tag-reconciled","tag-reproach","tag-saved","tag-sins","tag-son","tag-spirit","tag-stable","tag-steadfast","tag-submit","tag-trespasses","tag-world","tag-wrath-of-god"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130629,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130230\/revisions\/130629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}