Friends With The World – James 4
After Stephen was martyred in Jerusalem, the Jewish Christians were persecuted, driven from the city, and scattered throughout the land. They were unwelcome in their new communities, and faced great pressure to fit in with those around them. These Jews felt the pull of drifting back into their old ways. They tried to walk with one foot on the worldly path and the other on the path of God. But the ways of God and of the world are so completely opposite that it’s impossible to love one without hating the other. And as James warns, “friendship with the world, is hostility toward God.” (v. 4) …
