I John 2:15-17

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I John 2:15-17

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Ramifications for personal decisions

Asking the right question: why do I like this?

What is worldliness?

Ramifications for church

Do we interview people about how we should do church?

Dever: "self-consciously distinct from the culture"

Possible intro stuff

How dangerous? Demas, even Christian ministry

Love people / don't love world have equal importance

But the one who does the will of God lives forever

No sacrifice in turning away from the world; only gain

permanence; always relevant

The world is passing away and also its lusts

Destructive

In the end, evidence of hatred toward God

Personally

Temporary

Is not from the Father but is from the world

Illust: things my wife hates (not jokingly, but seriously)

taboos that aren't really a big deal? or hostile toward God?

The boastful pride of life

Define

Clothes, tech gadgets, vehicles, homes, jobs,

James 4:16

The lust of the eyes

Covetousness, materialism

False values: how it looks to man instead of how it looks to God

Do we value things like God values them?

Achan, David

The lust of the flesh

Define lust and flesh

I Cor. 9:27

Parallel with Gen 3 and Luke 4

Meaning of flesh

For all that is in the world

world = people; these things are in people and thus in our culture too

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him

James 4:4 - friend of the world, keeping them happy

Mark of healthy relationship with God: hating evil

Context: relationship with God

Present tense

Do not love the world nor the things in the world

World in general, or just a particular aspect

Def. of love here

Review def. of world

not them as individuals, but combined force of their direction and wallets