1 John 2:12-17 - Do Not Love the World

These are some tough verses, verses I’ve struggled with in the past, verses that often get abused and used as a pretext to support all manner of religious regulations and prohibitions. In spite of their ill use, they are a part of God’s word and had a genuine purpose in the mind of John when he wrote them. Our job is to find that intent and then apply that to ourselves. What was John saying to his original readers and what is God saying to you and to me. These are actually some wonderful verses of encouragement for beleaguered believers living in a dying world.

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. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.—1 John 2:15-17

We are living in a dying world and John’s words here are encouragement, wisdom, and warning. But what exactly does he mean? How are they applied? I explain all this and more in this bible study we did on this passage a few weeks back. What does it mean to love the world and how do I avoid it? Click on the link below and give it a listen.





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