1 John: Part 5
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IV. Evident by a Biblical lifestyle
IV. Evident by a Biblical lifestyle
A biblical lifestyle will rain on the world’s parade: Changed affections
The command of love: “Do not love the world or the things of the world.”
What is meant by the world and the things of the world?
What we love we live for
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19-21
It’s the system on which the world operates and is opposed to God
And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
It’s a world system ruled by Satan (allowed by God)
I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.
A world that gives a false peace
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
A world who does not know God
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
A world trusting in it’s own wisdom
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1
A world we do not fit in
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
The impossible relationship: “If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
His love for us or His love in us or our love for Him?
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Our love for Him?
A biblical lifestyle will resist the high life: Corrupted appetites
Things that control non-believers: “For all that is in the world—”
Lust of the flesh:
Not our physical flesh but our nature which is fallen and is sinful
The natural desires fulfilled in a forbidden way
The inward temptations
The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary d. A Digression about the World (2:15–17)
But since everything in the world … comes … from the world, we may not love any of it. John selects for special mention the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does. These appear to him ‘the essential marks of the pagan way of life’ (Dodd).
Lust of the eyes
The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary d. A Digression about the World (2:15–17)
This is ‘the tendency to be captivated by the outward show of things, without enquiring into their real values’ (Dodd)
Outward temptations
Jesus warning in
Pride of life
The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary d. A Digression about the World (2:15–17)
He boasts of what he has and does.
Things that are not associated with our Father: “—is not of the Father but is of this world.”
Jesus sought to do those things that pleased His Father, we should follow His example
And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
John 8:29
A biblical lifestyle remembers the world’s party will end:
Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
The certainity this world system is passing away: “And the world is passing away”
The sinful lifestyles will come to an end: “and the lust of it;”
The follower of God’s will continue forever: “but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
Joy can be stifled or stolen from being actively present in our every day lives
Joy can be stifled or stolen from being actively present in our every day lives
II. Evident by love for one another
II. Evident by love for one another
Unconfessed sin
Lack of assurance in our fellowship with Jesus Christ
III. A Pause for Encouragement
III. A Pause for Encouragement
IV. Evident by a Biblical lifestyle
IV. Evident by a Biblical lifestyle
Apostasy in the Church
Apostasy in the Church
V. Evident by
V. Evident by
Understanding our time
Understanding the truth
Continue abiding in Christ