{"id":45186,"date":"2022-10-01T01:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/money-is-a-protection-question-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:42:50","slug":"money-is-a-protection-question-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/money-is-a-protection-question-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Is A Protection Question &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;Is there a scripture, where it reads that money is a protection and can you please explain James 4:4?<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the querist&#8217;s first question is Ecclesiastes 7:12 and should be self-explanatory.<\/p>\n<p>In James 4:4, the text states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>James is simply saying that Christians cannot be a friend of God and a friend of the world&#8217;s evil influences at the same time (see John 15:19 and John 17:14 for companion scriptures).<\/p>\n<p>Christians are &#8220;in the world&#8221; but never &#8220;of the world&#8221; (John 17:14-17). Also look at 1 John 2:15-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;Is there a scripture, where it reads that money is a protection and can you please explain James 4:4? The answer to the querist&#8217;s first question is Ecclesiastes 7:12 and should be self-explanatory. In James 4:4, the text states: &#8220;Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/money-is-a-protection-question-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Money Is A Protection Question &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}