Worldliness in the Church
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What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You 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. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
How are you doing? How is you Spiritual walk? Do you feel like
The Symptom of worldliness
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
James 4:1
Link to previous passage about worldly wisdom and ongoing conflict
The most evident symptom of worldliness is ones misplaced passions.
This causes war among you
This causes quarrels and fights among you
This causes you to murder
How does one arrive at this
You covet and cannot obtain so you fight and quarrel
You desires are not met because you do not ask
And Even if you prayed to God about this asking
You do not recive
Because it is for the wrong reasons (your passions)
The problem with worldliness
Enmity with God
Committing adultery against God makes us enemies with God
Solution
Submit to God
Resist the devil
Draw Near
Cleanse your hands sinners
Purify your hearts double mided
Be wretched and
mourn and
weep
Laughter to mourning and
joy to gloom
Humble yourselves