NOLIE

Q4. (2:9-11) We know we're supposed to humble ourselves like Jesus did. But how can we know whether or not God will exalt us? : Because of our faith in the promises of God---- by His nature--this "exaltation" happens as an artifact of being a Child of God! the promise is that we are being made Christ Like--and he loved us so much as to lavish the title of Children of God to us This is in 1 John. Gods "exaltation" doesn

I believe we must first ask what is suppose to be "strange" (unfamiliar) to us about this world before we can become "alien" to it. Undoubtable all christians have come out of the "world" its only human! First John chapter 2 helps to explain what Christians are to keep away from, that which is naturaly part of unsaved human psyche. Do Not Love the World 15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For everything in the world