Sermon Tone Analysis

Through the last 4 weeks we’ve explored some big topics,

How to drift from God

How to become an addict

How to ruin relationships

How to be dissatisfied

Each of these pose significant danger to our spiritual life and our growth, and the scary thing is that they can happen without us even knowing it.

But there’s one thing we can do make them all even easier, and that brings us to the topic of today’s message.

HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD

Our key verse for today is 1 John 2:15 and I want you all to read this with me so if you have a Bible with you, go ahead and tap or turn to that verse.

Ready?

This passage goes on to give us the PERFECT road map on how to love the world, let’s take a look.

3 things here that we can pursue to love the world, lets break it down.

1. EMBRACE YOUR DESIRES

So seek out all your desires, it can’t hurt, right?

The reality is we can’t do both, we can’t chase our own desires and seek out God’s, we can only choose one.

2. IF YOU SEE IT, TAKE IT

Our key verse said the desire of the eyes, but what does that even mean?

well,

A great philosopher, Ariana Grande once said

“I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it”-Ariana Grande

This could be ANYTHING.

We tend to assume that it’s only a sexual desire that falls into this category but it’s any form of envy that we could have.

If celebrities can embrace their desires and seek out anything that they could ever want, why shouldn’t we?

The world is always telling us that this is a good thing and how we look is more important than who we are.

If you see it and you like it, go after it!

I mean, this has been something that’s been around since the beginning, if you turn to Genesis 3:6 which says

You’ll see that one of the reasons that Eve ate the forbidden fruit was because she SAW it, and it looked good.

She gratified the desires of her eyes and condemned humanity, but if you do, you’ll condemn yourself.

3. NO MATTER WHAT, ELEVATE YOURSELF

Elevate your status, all that matters is how important you are, the fancy job title, getting married just to say who you are, get that nice car, that nice house, get everything you can, always be looking for more, spend all your time building a social media platform and feed your ego with likes and followers.

As long as you look important, that’s all that matters.

So now we know, the 3 major temptations in the world are the desires of the flesh, desire of the eyes, and the pride of life.

We also know, that if we want to love the world, we need to embrace all of our desires, go after everything that looks good, and elevate ourselves, lets see how we can love Jesus and NOT the world now, turn with me to.

DENY YOURSELF

If you want to oppose the desires of the flesh, you need to deny yourself.

The world tells you to satisfy all of your desires but if we want to love like Jesus does and serve like Jesus served, we need to be willing to give up things we want now for things we want later.

TAKE UP YOUR CROSS

No one ever said following Jesus is easy, if you want to oppose the desire of the eye, you need to keep your eyes on Jesus, when you focus on Jesus the shiny things around you won’t be as tempting.

FOLLOW JESUS

Let’s pray