--LOVE NOT THE WORLD~~

--'Love not the world, neither the
things that are in the world.'
--1 John 2:15-16

-THE Greek word translated "world" in this verse is 'cosmos', referring to the world as an organized system. Paul warned against walking "according to the the course of this world." Satan is the one who set its course, for "the whole world lieth in wickedness."

The world does not love us! "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." Yet how diligently we work to acquire possessions and attain high positions in the world system.
"The lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." Instead, we should "overcome the world."

But we 'should' love the world in one important way: "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son." Christ prayed, "As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world." He did not love the world's possessions or pleasures or positions, but its 'people'! Like Jesus, we too must love them and show them the way back to their Creator and Savior.~~

-[1 John 2:15-16; John 5:18; 15:18; 3:16; 17:18; Ephesians 2:2]

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