Frenemies of Christ

I set my eyes on what I cannot see The hope of living right in front of me Oh I've left the world behind Now Jesus you are mine How can it be? Your death means I'm alive James 4.4 in the message translation says you're cheating on God if all you want is your own way Fletting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and His way And do you suppose that God doesn't care? I love how the passion translation also puts it It says you have become spiritual adulterers who are having an affair, an unholy relationship with the world Don't you know that flirting with the world's values places you at odds with God? Whoever chooses to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy Friendship with the world is about value systems The values of the world and the values of Christ are never in agreement and are never the same How we think, where we go, how we do life are never in agreement with the world And so when you adopt the values of the world into your life, it hinders you from being a bold witness for Christ Friends, our morality is not the gospel and it doesn't save men But it gives us stronger grounds to preach the gospel Our values either hinder the gospel or enhances the preaching of it Now you need to understand - God has called us to godly lives But you see, a godly life is not a moral life It includes morality but it is not just morality The word godly is a confluence of two words, god-like And god-like is not only moral, God is morally excellent but he is also excellent in all things So you know a godly man not just by his morality but by his god-likeness in all things And you're either like him or not like him But you cannot be a part of him and not be like him Friends, the world is very deliberate about its agenda And the agenda of the world is to conform us And conformity is to get people who are at variance with values and systems to accept and adopt your values and systems through pressure And the pressure in the world comes with majority, popularity and diversity Majority because everyone is doing it Popularity because this is the popular thing now and the truth is this, much of what is popular is not right In the agenda of the world, deception and indoctrination will be publicized and amplified through the media So a lot of things will be popular And diversity because it is not just happening in one place, it's happening everywhere But hey, our systems and our values are different because they are of Christ Never conform to this world Be transformed by the renewal of your mind through the Word to live in the standards and values of Christ Have a blessed day friends.