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Rejecting the World
"Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him"
(1 John 2:15).
Loving the world begins with thinking that God doesn't know what's best for you and is trying to
cheat you out of something you deserve. That thought soon blossoms into a willingness to disregard God's warnings altogether
and take whatever Satan has to offer.
Love of the world started in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.
Genesis 3:6 says, "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that
the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he
ate." What made them think the fruit was good for food or able to make them wise? God didn't tell them that. In fact,
He warned them that they would die if they ate the fruit (Gen. 2:17). But Eve believed the serpent's lie and Adam followed
suit.
Satan continues to propagate his lies but you needn't fall prey to them if you love God and remember that
the world is opposed to everything He stands for. It is spiritually dead; void of the Spirit
(John 14:17); morally
defiled; and dominated by pride, greed, and evil desires. It produces wrong opinions, selfish aims, sinful pleasures, demoralizing
influences, corrupt politics, empty honors, and fickle love.
You can't love the world and God at the same time
because love knows no rivals. It gives its object first place. If you love God, He will have first place in your life. If
you love the world, the love of the Father isn't in you (1 John 2:15).
Galatians 1:3-5 explains that Jesus says
that "gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our
God and Father, to whom be the glory forevermore." Christ died to deliver us from Satan's evil system. What greater motivation
could there be to reject the world and live to God's glory?
(John 14:17); morally defiled; and dominated by pride,
greed, and evil desires. It produces wrong opinions, selfish aims, sinful pleasures, demoralizing influences, corrupt politics,
empty honors, and fickle love.
You can't love the world and God at the same time because love knows no rivals.
It gives its object first place. If you love God, He will have first place in your life. If you love the world, the love of
the Father isn't in you (1 John 2:15).
Galatians 1:3-5 explains that Jesus says that "gave Himself for our
sins, that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory
forevermore." Christ died to deliver us from Satan's evil system. What greater motivation could there be to reject the
world and live to God's glory?
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Letter of a dead person to a Christian
friend.
My Friend,
I stand in judgment now. Feeling that you're to blame somehow.
On Earth, I walked with you day by day, and never did you point the Way. You know the Lord Jesus in truth and glory, but never
did you tell me the story. My knowledge then was so very dimmed, and you could've lead me straight to Him. Though we lived
together on Earth, you never told me of a second birth. And now I stand here condemned because you failed to mention Him.
You thought me many things, that's true. I called you friend; I trusted you. But now I learned that it's too late, and you
could have save me from this fate. We walked and talked by day and night, and you showed me not the Light. And you let me
live, and love and die, and you knew I'll never live and love with you on high. Yes, I called you friend in life. I trusted
you to joy and strive. And yet I'm coming to the end. I can not call you now my friend.
Do you know the Lord Jesus? If you do, do you tell about Him to your friends? The
people you play basketball with, people you hang-out with, people who sit next to you when you watch the Lakers, people
at work who eat lunch with you? Do you tell them that Jesus loves them? They might not know that. Share Jesus. It's a matter
of life and death.
Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father
but through Me." It doesn't matter how good you are. It doesn't matter if you gave that beggar some change. It doesn't matter
if you go to church every Sunday. It doesn't matter if you pay your alms. It does't matter if you are the most moral person
on Earth. If you don't have Jesus, there's no way you can get to heaven. Good works don't send people to heaven. Good works
are results of faith in Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:9 says, "For by GRACE you have been SAVED through FAITH, and that NOT
OF YOURSELVES; it is the GIFT of God, NOT OF WORKS, lest anyone should
boast.
So if you think you going to heaven because your just too good
a person, think again.
HOLY BIBLE
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