When love is SIN

1st john 2:15

Do Not Love the World

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.

“The world” here means “man, and man’s world” [Alford], in his and its state as fallen from God. “God loved [with the love of compassion] the world,” and we should feel the same kind of love for the fallen world; but we are not to love the world with congeniality and sympathy in its alienation from God; we cannot have this latter kind of love for the God-estranged world, and yet have also “the love of the Father in” us.

A man might deny in general that he loved the world, while keenly following some one of the things in it: its riches, honors, or pleasures; this clause prevents him escaping from conviction.

anyone: therefore the warning, though primarily addressed to the young, applies to all.

that is, towards “the Father.” The two, God and the (sinful) world, are so opposed, that both cannot be congenially loved at once.

THE WORLD 1:

PHYSICAL:

Creation from nothing requires that the material world be derivative of something other than matter. God is not merely the organizer of matter previously in a state of chaos. Rather, according to Genesis 1, the material world is the result of God’s action and, even more, God’s speech. A Christian account of creation must consider at least three elements: (1) the Triune God himself as creator; (2) the act of material creation; (3) and the fact of the world. THIS WOULD INCLUDE THE TREES, MOUNTAIN, RIVERS, THE OCEANS.... AND THEIR BEAUTY THERE OF.

ISA 4:2

2 In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious;

And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing

For those of Israel who have escaped.

THE PEOPLE :

Matthew 22:35–40 “Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.””

Daniel 9:4–5 “And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.”

John 13:35 “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.””

We are called to love each other.......to look out for each other,

Matthew 25:40 “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’”

SPIRITUAL:

The prince of this world.

Ephesians 2:2 “in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,”

Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

John 16:11 “of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.”

John 14:30 “I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.”

THE RULER OF THIS WORLD IS THE DEVIL.

DO NOT LOVE.......

IT IS A COMMAND!

LOVE IS SIN WHEN DIRECTED TO THE WRONG THING.