06/18/18 THE CHRISTIAN RELATIONSHIP WITH "THE WORLD"
The song says,
"I don't wanna walk like the world,
I don't wanna talk like the world
I don't wanna be like the world
I wanna be like You"
God says we should be dead to the world and the world to us and that we should not love the world or the things in the world.
Galatians 6:14
14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
1 John 2:15-17
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Not only is this material, cosmic, temporal, broken world passing, so is also this evil world system, ruled by the Prince of Darkness, the Prince of the power of the Air, the god of this world.
Our attachment should not be put into the transient or the evil. We should not love these things. In fact, we should be dead to them.
Playing with the world is playing with fire, playing with a venomous snake, playing with a raging lion.
