{"id":1539,"date":"2025-03-28T00:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebible.au\/?post_type=book_of_james&#038;p=1539"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:46:14","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"book_of_james","link":"https:\/\/thebible.au\/?book_of_james=4","title":{"rendered":"4 \u25ba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"James 4 - Friendship with the world, makes you an enemy of God\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/16C97c26kLI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">James 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In <strong>James 4<\/strong> we learn we have not because we ask amiss. We ask with hidden motives of selfish personal benefit. Even Christian gatherings can be filled with waring, &amp; hatred, &amp; jealously, &amp; lusting. To be a friend of the world, makes you an enemy of God. James gave the crucial directive: \u201csubmit to God.\u00a0Resist the devil &amp; he will flee from you.\u201d Next we hear James\u2019 beautiful words: \u201cDraw near to God &amp; He will draw near to you.\u201d We received instruction to: \u201cHumble ourselves in the sight of the Lord &amp; He will lift you up.\u201d We\u2019re not to live in a spirit of judgmentalism, pointing fingers at others. Living like this &#8211; makes us law breakers. Our life is a vapor, appearing for a little time then vanishing away. How foolish is the person who makes plans in this life, without placing God at the centre of those plans. If you know what the Godly choice is &amp; you pick the carnal choice, this is sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1539","book_of_james","type-book_of_james","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>4 \u25ba - theBible.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thebible.au\/?book_of_james=4\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"4 \u25ba - theBible.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"James 4 In James 4 we learn we have not because we ask amiss. We ask with hidden motives of selfish personal benefit. 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