Good morning. Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. It's like Jesus said about trying to serve God and mammon. You will hold to one despise the other. And yet you see many Christians trying to appease the people of the world. And not only that, too many times you cannot tell the difference between the way they act and the way the people of the world act. He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us. God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. You heard about the man that his church gave him this big button that said most humble on it. They took it back because he wore it. Moses was called the meekest man on earth, but there were times when he did not seem like it; at least not what we would call meek. He knew where his authority and power came from – God. As long as he did not think that it came from himself, he was fine. As a result we are to: submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. We have to realize where our power and authority comes from. It comes from God. If you resist the devil in your own power and strength, he will stomp all over you. You have to first submit yourself to God, and then resist the devil. He will flee from God's authority in you. Father thank You that the reader is no friend of the world. He/she submits himself/herself to You and resists the devil. He flees from him/her!

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