James 4:4-6
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. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us"? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Todays church falls into the trap of wanting to be more like the world to gain more of the world but the one mistake that they make is putting aside the gospel and sin to not cause conflict with the people and by doing that they have chosen to make themselves a friend of the world, and become humanistic and man-centered. The world has nothing to offer a christian, yes, God's creation was good in genesis, but since sin enterd the world the god of this world, satan, wants to tempt us and make us fall into his snares and sin against a Holy and Righteous God. There are 3 things that we can get out of this text:

1. Friendship with the world means that we are enemies of God.
Our lives, as christians, should be cross exhaulting, Christ-centered, God glorifying lives. Most of us are afraid of persecution, and what we tend to do is not proclaim our christian life or preach Christ to people because we are afraid of there response, and if they are our friends or family we dont want to lose their friendship so we would rather be friends with them and put God on the back burner. Now, when we start choosing the world over Christ thats when James rebuke falls into play. Because of Christ sacrafice, we are seen as holy and without blame before Him in love (ephesians 1:4), and we have no wrath in store for us because Christ became a propitiation for our sins(Romans 3:25). Now anyone who rejects the gospel and Christs' work on the cross and chooses the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life instead of a perfect and loving God who gave up His only begotten son is an enemy of God because he/she is denying the glorious work that took place and the God who did it. So when paul talks about being unqually yoked (2 corinthians 6:14) that means that our friends influence does rub off on us and when we are around them long enough the life we use to know and love with Christ begins to fade and we make ourselves an enemy of God.

2.God is a jealous God.(genesis 20:5)
God will not take 2nd place, He will not allow something or someone take His place in your life. God has given us the Holy Spirit to convict us and guide us and conform us to Christ. Now, when we neglect The Spirit and try to do our own thing that is a sin against God and He will chasten those whom are His and who He loves. God shouldnt be only number one on our list, He should be the only thing on our list. Remember love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul,mind and strength.(mark 12:30)

3.Be humble,have a broken and contrite heart daily.
The last part of the verse James write that "God oppreses the proud, but gives grace to the humble." Most of the time we are humled, or have a broken and contrite heart when we have sinned against someone, or hurt someone, but we must know that no matter who we sinned against or whom we have hurt, first it is all sin against God. We daily fall short of His glory, and daily sin against God. So daily we must live a life with a broken and contrite heart leading us to be humble before the Lord because we know that we have sinned against a Holy and Perfect God. I pray that this will humble us and that God will get the glory... amen