1 John 2:15
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. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
World
The World means the system and the practices of the system.
Any system you see that brings you into it and leaves God and Godly values out of it is called the world.
A system that brings you to a habit of life where you forget about God, where you do not think about God.
Jesus says in JOhn 17
John 17
and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
1 John 5:19
19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
For example :
Celebrating Christmas
Most of the things that people do will have nothing to do with Christmas.But a system is created. the system involves billions of dollars exchanged in gifts.a system the business of buying trees and decorations and saying Merry Christmas. A System that leaves God out and puts certain things in place and say you have to do this, this and this.
Any system that gets formed is the world.
Do Not love the world - To chose the system, over Gods will.
Whenever love is mentioned, that means making a choice.
God has given the power of making choice to the man.
We are in the Robotic world. we see robots everywhere.
But God created us not as robots. not programmed. but a spirit inside, and mind to make choices and a flesh to experience then tangible things of the choices you made.
You cannot love God and the world at the same time - that is a lie.
you can either love God or hate God.
when the bible says do not love the world. that means every time you make a choice do not leave the ways of God, the Word of God.
Do not make world as priority. Do not make the system as priority.
But make God as priority.
Make Christ as priority, then the system as priority.
Your Christmas should be filled with Meditation of Christ birth, sharing of Christ love to others. That should be it. But we leave out the main thing, we fix on the system.
your iphone in itself is not wrong, but the love of upgrading for the next higher version and getting into the system is what God hates.
2 Timothy 4:10
10 for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia
Friendship with world - makes you enemity with God.
James 4:4
4 [d]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.
If anyone loves the world - the love of the Father is not in him
If anyone - that could be anyone.
loves the world - there is a serious repercussion, that love of the father is not in him.
can you imagine that love of the father not in a person - its darkness.
Galatians 1:4
4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
having the things is different than loving the things
David was in palace, but still loved God., I would rather be a watchman in the house of God.
Everything that is in the world - falls under 3 things
Lust of the flesh Lust of the eyes Pride of the life
Craving for pleasure outside of Gods Word.
Lust of the flesh - Cravings of the body.
everything might not be wrong by itself, but loving it in ungodly ways is wrong.
Having money is no wrong, but bible says loving money is wrong, gaining money in unrighteous ways is wrong.
sex in itself is not wrong, but sex outside the will of God ( that is marriage) is condemned.
Lust of the eyes - Desire to have - Covetousness - I see it I must have it
Every time you see something, you crave for it
That is why the bible says Walk by faith, not by sight.
Pride of life - Treating myself above others. loving position.
Position craving - to be recognized by the people around us, in schools, colleges at the cost of the ways of God.
temptation of Eve
temptation of Jesus
These things of the world is not from the Father, but of the world.
there are 2 fathers mentioned in the bible.
God the Father - of all truth
father devil - of all lies.
what daddy do we serve?
The World is passing away.
Everything in the system passes way.
Whatever the system throws at us, is all temporary.
Why do you buy new clothes, the old clothes fade away.
When we get a new phone - how careful we will be - we will wipe it and keep it clean. and few weeks, it fades.
This body , we try so many thing - to make it show that it is not fading.
the World is passing.
He who does the will of God abides forever.
Whenever a person is doing the Will of God, what that person is doing is laying the foundation for eternity.
Whenever there is pressure to perform according to the values of the system, then you uphold the ways of God and the word of God then you say I live in this world, but with Gods kingdom in perspective.
Finally
1 John 5:19
4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—[a]our faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
But if you daddy is God the Father and His love is in you, then you overcome the world.
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