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Introduction / Sermon
I want to demand something of the graduates this evening.
Those who are currently graduates, actually, and those who will be graduates.
So actually, I’m really just speaking to everyone.
And I say that I want to demand something and not ask something because I believe this morning, here tonight, is the single most important, Christian moment in your life.
I’m close to begging something in my demand.
I’m not asking, I’m not telling, but I am demanding and begging.
What am I begging?
I am begging that you follow the commands and the instructions of this passage of Scripture.
I am demanding that you take a very sober look at your future from this moment.
One of the reasons why I sense this urgency and I make this demand is because statistically, more than half of you will walk away from Christianity.
And my demand is to break the statistics and remain in Christianity.
Don’t pretend that going out from among us is not possible in your life
Don’t pretend like staying among us isn’t important
We already know that some have walked away into ruin and misery.
I’ve already been apart of preaching the Gospel to some who turn right around and abandon the very truths that they both professed to accept and walked in for some time.
And the timeframe for this to happen, starts at this moment.
This passage details exactly how to avoid falling into ruin and misery.
John’s first epistle is probably best known as the black and white epistle.
It’s black and white, there are no gray areas.
Either you’re a Christian or your not.
If you’re a Christian you live like a Christian.
Makes sense.
If you’re not a Christian it is evident that you’re not a Christian.
And it is evident in your behavior and in your affections.
Those who are plummeting into sin and ruin and misery right now are those who have only talked about being a Christian.
But who have not lived as a Christian.
The fact of the matter is, that I can tell you all day that I’m a Doctor.
But if I don’t do things that a doctor does it’s very difficult to believe that I’m actually a doctor.
If I can’t practice medicine,
Then there is no reason why I should be considered a doctor.
Why would it work as a Christian to say I’m a Christian and yet fail to practice Christian things?
What’s one mark, that would be a truly significant one for a Christian to know that their a Christian?
If the Love of God is in them.
And how do you know that the love of God is in you?
If you don’t love the things of the world or the world.
The draw away from Church happens because the draw of the world is stronger.
In other words, you won’t stay in the church because the things within the church are not the things you love.
The things that you love are in the world therefore you will leave the church to pursue what’s in the world.
In the church there are not things that are lovely to those who do not love God.
There’s no reason to stay among those who are not lovely to you in order to pursue those who are lovely.
Now.
Who or what is the world?
And in what sense should we not love it?
says that God loves the world.
God so loves the world.
This love prompted Him to send His son to save everyone who believes.
Wouldn’t it be bizarre if God loves something that we are not supposed to love?
There are many definitions of the word “World”.
World can be how everything is arranged and put into order.
World can mean all humans.
World can mean some humans.
Like the, “World of Sports”.
The “Gaming World”.
“The Fashion World”.
In the “World of racing”.
It can mean the earth.
The World in which we live.
Now I doubt that God is ultimately not wanting people to have a love for the earth.
I don’t think God is trying to communicate through His written word here that if you love the globe in which we live to a certain extent that you are apostate.
I don’t think he’s talking about the “World of Racing”.
It wouldn’t make sense that we shouldn’t love the whole world that Jesus is the propitiating sacrifice for in verse 2.
It’s more than just the three categories that we’ll get into, because he says don’t love the world or the things in the world.
He explains what things are in the world but he doesn’t give the immediate definition of the world.
How would that make sense?
Jesus Christ is the advocate for those whom His people are supposed to not love.
Would it make sense that the world has to do with verse 17?
If the world is passing away with it’s desires, but the one who does the will of God abides.
The World is everything and possibly everyone who refuses to love God and do His will.
But Jesus commanded us to love our enemies, right?
Absolutely, no question.
(ESV)
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
John is taking a teaching about love straight from the words of Christ.
If the love that you have for worldly people is greater
Than the love you have for Christ, you do not have the love of the Father and are not a disciple of Jesus.
It’s the kind of love and love in comparison.
Don’t have the kind of love that would result in you leaving the church to pursue the same things that worldly people, unbelievers, pursue.
The issue grows, however, when you realize what is said in verse
I’m sure it’s a bummer to find out that you have no original desires.
Either your desires are from the Father or from the World.
So your desires will draw you away from the church because your desires are the world’s desires that are for the world’s things.
And those things, the things of the world, are seen in three categories.
And these are going to be the three categories that you will struggle with the most.
Desires of the flesh.
Could even be the desires of the body.
The world, then, is all about things that make the body feel good.
It craves things, like immorality and the use of substances to produce a high.
It craves things that are pleasing to the senses.
God doesn’t give you those desires.
And those things are passing away.
(ESV)
24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
The only way you can do this is if Jesus is more enjoyable and desirable to you than the things in the world.
And again this goes right along with the people who can provide you these categories.
So stop for a moment and realize that when someone is giving you romantic interests what desires are drawing you to that person?
Do you realize that if that person is providing for you a means to express your fleshly, sinful, immoral desires that that is not from God?
Those are worldly desires leading you away.
Desires of the eyes is another category.
Things that specifically look good and feel good.
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