Deep Dive - Week 3
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Loving the World - Or God?
Loving the World - Or God?
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.
“do not love the world” - “to strive after, try to get, or, prefer.” To like better than the things of God.
World - In this case, man’s organization of creation. How we choose to structure our environment and society as we work to dominate the world and one another.
Things in the world - Essentially, “whatever the world has to offer, way of life.” The meaning is negative.
4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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Desires of the World
Desires of the World
16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
desires - Root idea of violent movement, to well up or boil up. Eventually to have a direct impulse towards satisfaction (food, sex, desire in general). Desire, in this case, struggles to rule over us.
Lust - sinful longing.
flesh - both the literal human need that becomes sinful and the fallen nature.
eyes -
pride of life - the behavior of a conceited and pretentious hypocrite who glorifies himself.
bragging, boasting, thinking overly highly of one’s self.
life - what one needs to sustain life.
6 So 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 to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
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11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
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Fading vs. Abiding
Fading vs. Abiding
17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
passing - in process, but not yet finished. coming to an end, perishing, fading.
Abides - “to be and remain.”