1John 2:15-17
¶ Do not love the world nor 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 and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life,
is not from the Father, but is from the world.
The world is passing away, and also its lusts;
but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
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Rather straight forward.
As believers in Christy Jesus our Lord we are not to love the world nor the things of this world.
But rather we are to love the LORD our GOD.
Reminded me of this
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and riches.
Luke 16:13
“No servant can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one and love the other,
or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and riches.”
Who ore the ones who loves the world?
That would be the ones who gather the stuff and things of the world for their own benefit and sense of value.
The ones who always have to have more, who can’t give to others for fear of being without.
The ones who say I don’t love money, but in reality, for they love the things it can do for them.
We are told “we are not to love the world nor the things of this world.”
No matter what it is;
If you can’t let go of it, you love it.
If you Love the Lord your GOD than grasp hold of Him and His teachings and let go of this world and the things of this world.
Serve the creator not the created.
Love the Lord your GOD, not the world and the things of this world.
Serve one master,
Chose this day whom you will serve.
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1John 2:18
Children, it is the last hour;
and just as you heard that antichrist is coming,
even now many antichrists have appeared;
from this we know that it is the last hour.
They went out from us, but they were not really of us;
for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us;
but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.
But you have an anointing from the Holy One,
and you all know. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth,
but because you do know it,
and because no lie is of the truth.
Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father;
the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
As for you,
let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning.
If what you heard from the beginning abides in you,
you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you;
but as His anointing teaches you about all things,
and is true and is not a lie,
and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.
1John 2:28-29
Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.
If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.
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many antichrists have appeared, many are in the church today,
who is the antichrist?
the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ,
the one who denies the Father and the Son.
These are the liars.
These are the antichrist, the ones who denies the Father and the Son.
The one who denies one denies the other.
If we are in the word of GOD,
allowing the Holy Spirit to teach us,
we will abide in Christ Jesus and in Father God.
Christ Jesus gives us the promise that if we except Him and abide in Him we will have eternal life,
eternal life in Him and the Father.
As Christ Himself has stated, mankind can not serve two masters,
We each need to choose each day to serve the Lord Christ Jesus.
We are told
“YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND;”
If this is how you love the Lord your God,
You won’t have space in you to love the world,
or the ways of the world.
And you won’t have time or the opportunity to be taken by the antichrist and its deception.
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Psalm 1
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
Therefore, the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.
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The antichrists are among the wicked.
Whom will you choose to walk with,
to stand with,
to set with?
What do you meditate on throughout your day?
Meditate:
What do you contemplate, what do you ponder, what do you allow your mind to entertain? What do you consider, what do you study, what do you look at?
Choose this day whom you will serve.
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