Galations 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Colossians 2:20a
You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world.
Colossians 3:1-3
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
To live godly lives in Christ Jesus, we have to die daily to the ways of the world and rise up to the ways of God's Kingdom.
James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
We cannot claim to love God and still be living by the standards of the world. The world finds nothing wrong with many things that God finds wrong. Concerning different areas of our life, such as marriage, we ought to seek and follow what God has designed. Following the world's could make us enemies of God.
We must die to our earthly desires such as the lust of the eye, not everything that looks appealing to the eye is acceptable in God's eyes. We cannot do things just because they make us feel good. Rather, we must do them because they tally with God's Word. We ought to be proud of what makes God proud. Merely following the ways of the world, jumping on the bandwagon of what makes the world applaud, can lead you to partake in what Heaven frowns at. 1 John 2:16
We must renew our minds in God, to ascertain its non conformity to the ways of the world, so that our lives may please God. Romans 12:2
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