‘Intellectual Progress.’
Proverbs 21:11.
a) When the scoffer is punished.
b) The simpleminded people become wise.
c) When the wise people are instructed.
d) The wise person receives Knowledge.
(This QT shows me Intellectual Progress)
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‘Renounce Friendship With The World System.’
James 4:1-4.
a) James 4:1. Where do wars and fights come from among us? Do they not come from our desires for pleasure that war in our members? (Not ‘spiritual warfare’ but us!)
b) James 4:2. We lust and we do not have.
c) James 4:2. We:-
1- Murder.
2- Covet.
3- Cannot obtain.
4- Fight and war.
d) James 4:2. We do not have because we do not ask.
e) James 4:3. We ask and do not receive, because we ask amiss, that we may spend it on our pleasures.
f) James 4:4. We are adulterers and adulteresses that do not know that friendship with the World system is enmity with God.
g) James 4:4. Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the World system makes themselves an enemy of God.
(This Second one clearly shows me that I must Renounce Friendship With The World System)
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Chris.
We need, if we are True Believers, to renounce friendship with the World system. The World system, I John tells us, is rooted in lust and pride. If we love the World system we will have great difficulty in growing spiritually. Let us be True Believers who live in Victory over the World system.
