What is in the world?

 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. 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. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever – 1 John 2.15-17

 

So what are we not supposed to love? What is the world system based on?

 

There are three pretty basic things to watch out for.

 

The lust of the flesh

The lust of the world

The pride of life

 

And that pretty much wraps up the cause for sin.

 

These three areas are the same things that Satan use to tempt Eve. They are same things he used to tempt Jesus.

 

Satan tempts us with the thing that catch our eyes. The seemingly beautiful things and the shiny lights and the things that catch our attention. Its all around us in the world and on the telly and on the internet. It’s the things we see and grab before we really pay any attention. The lust of the world is just general worldliness around us. It is the things that draw us away from the things of God. It is setting our affection on things in the earth instead of things above.

 

The pride of life is just what it sounds like. It is anything that feeds our egos. It is the stuff that makes us forget humility.

 

These are the things we can’t love. When we do this we prove the world more than we love God.

 

Who do we really love