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the things that are in the world”; in other

words, you can't love the Father and love

the world. James 4 and verse 4 clearly says

that we can't be a friend of God and at the

same time be a friend of the world. And

there are three areas of temptation from the

world; those are the lust of the flesh, the lust

of the eyes, and the pride of life. James 1:27

says that we're to keep ourselves unspotted

from the world, and Romans 12 and verse 2

says we're not to be conformed to the

world. So we see in verse 18, “If the world

hate you, ye know that it hated me before it

hated you,” and verse 19, “If ye were of the

world, the world would love his own: but

because ye are not of the world, but I have

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