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3. Friendship with the world is hatred toward God
wants to harm us, so they command that ‘devil, go away’.
However, how can people who make a friend with the world
oppose the devil while they commit adultery with the devil’s
things that the devil brings? How come they are able to be
against the devil? To abandon the things that are friends
of the world is to resist the devil. To resist the devil is not to
shout with your mouth, but to declare an end of a relation-
ship and get out of there. Originally you are a still friend of
the world, but the easiest way to prevent you from becoming
the faith in accordance with the will of God, is that the devil
to keep you be a friend of the world as ever. Of course, also
there is salvation when we believe, but about the reason for
believing in God and in Jesus, the devil rather makes us put
more our mind in the material thing. The devil makes us
think as if what we live well in the world is a blessing that
God gives to those who believe, so that our hearts are fixed to
the things of the world. So the devil makes people’s minds be
enticed into the world and ties them up tightly.
What does verse 8 say about that? It says clearly ‘you
double-minded’. So what does it say how to do about those
who have double-minded? It says to Purify your hearts. And
what did I say earlier, about the characteristics of the world?
It is greed, empty boasting, luxury, waste, obsession, attach-
ment, boasting, covet, accumulation, competition and fight-
ing. Therefore, you must turn from such things and purify
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