Did you know, that if you are a friend of the world, you are a enemy of God? The truth that unbelievers are enemies of God is taught through out the Scriptures. You may not have thought about it that way, but you cannot be a friend of the world and a friend of God. The world is totally against all that God is, in purity, in holiness, in righteousness, and in love.
James; 4:4
(Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.)
What are the things in the world that you might love or long for?
1John; 2:15-16
(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. For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but of the world.)
God, not the world must have first place in the Christians life.
Maybe you think that it doesn't matter if you are a friend of the world and live in the flesh. The Scriptures tell a different story and God say it does matter.
Romans; 8:6-8
(For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.)
You cannot live in sin and please God.
The question is, how are we reconciled to God? We are told that the only way is through Jesus Christ. No matter what the world might be telling you, God tell us that, it is through My Son, and only through Him.
John: 14:6
(Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.)
Romans; 5:10
(For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.)
2Corinthians; 5:18-19
(Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.)
God used His Son the only acceptable and perfect sacrifice, as a means to reconcile sinners to Himself. Jesus was God the Son. God came down to earth as a man, Jesus Christ, and died on the cross for you and me. It was the only way to reconcile us to Him.
2Corinthians; 5:21
(For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.)
Jesus bore our sins on the cross so that we could bear His righteousness.
Don't delay coming to Jesus for salvation. You might not ever get another chance to receive salvation and have your sins forgiven. We are never promised another day here on earth.
2Corinthians; 6:2
(For He says; "In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Genesis; 6:3
(Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.")
Your time also may be running out. Turn to God to forgive your sins. You cannot see the stopwatch of God's patience, and there is no bargaining for additional time.
God Bless You!
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