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Excerpted from: Satan (Part 5)We need to understand that for the Christian, there are two possible objects of affection (in this context). The one is the world and the other is God, and they are opposed.
To have a warm, familiar attitude with this world is to be on good terms with God's enemy. What does it mean, in more practical application, to be a friend of the world? It is to adopt the world's set of values and wants, to want what the world wants instead of choosing according to divine standards or divine truths.
In other words (if I can put it any more clearly) if a person does that, he has actually made himself to be subject to Satan because Satan is the ruler of this world! That is a choice that we want very much to avoid. The worldly person will almost invariably choose to satisfy himself—he will take action on his desire; he will choose to satisfy himself and he will eventually produce confusion, division, and war. It cannot be otherwise because the spirit of the world is the spirit of Satan, and laws are at work, and laws produce what they are designed to produce.
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