{"id":1640,"date":"2017-08-20T02:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2022-06-30T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:13:24","slug":"whose-friend-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Whose Friend Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Are you a friend of God or a friend of the world? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>YOU CANNOT BE BOTH!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that\u00a0the\u00a0friendship\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0world\u00a0is enmity\u00a0with\u00a0God?\u00a0 Whosoever therefore will be a friend of\u00a0the\u00a0world\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0enemy of\u00a0God. \u00a0<\/em>James 4:4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Pure religion and undefiled before God and\u00a0the\u00a0Father is this, To visit\u00a0the\u00a0fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to\u00a0keep\u00a0himself\u00a0unspotted\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0world. <\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>James 1:27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>From blog article entitled &#8220;Overcoming the World&#8221; in the August 2016 archives: <em>Friendship with the world is the practice of fulfilling legitimate human needs outside the clear commands and boundaries of Scripture.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a friend of God or a friend of the world? YOU CANNOT BE BOTH! Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that\u00a0the\u00a0friendship\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0world\u00a0is enmity\u00a0with\u00a0God?\u00a0 Whosoever therefore will be a friend of\u00a0the\u00a0world\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0enemy of\u00a0God. \u00a0James 4:4 Pure religion and undefiled before God and\u00a0the\u00a0Father is this, To visit\u00a0the\u00a0fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to\u00a0keep\u00a0himself\u00a0unspotted\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0world. \u00a0James 1:27 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whose Friend Are You?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}