Question:
How can we get restored if we start doing bad things and hanging out with bad friends?

Answer:
James 4:4 – “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

·         Get rid of those friends and look to the Lord for friends that want to follow Jesus.  You cannot help your unsaved friends if you are away from the Lord and need to be restored…so get away from them until you are restored and can minister Christ to them.

·         Repent and read the Bible.

·         Get close to the Lord and follow the leading of His Spirit instead of being led by bad friends.

·         We should not try to have things in common with the world, so they will be our friends.  We should be friendly, and show the Lord in our lives, but not be friends with the world.

·         We cannot do these things in our own strength, because Jesus said: “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life” (John 6:63). “For the love of Christ constraineth [empowers] us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again” (2 Corinthians 5:14, 15).

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