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Understanding ‘Do Not Love the World’ – A Modern Christian Perspective
In this episode, we explore the biblical verse ‘… (visit YouTube for more)
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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.
So what does this verse mean for us today? What it mustn’t mean, what it can’t mean is that we don’t love creation, because creation was made by God. God saw it and said that it was good. I know that sin has spoiled it, but this is something that God is preserving for us.
And it can’t mean that we don’t love the people in the world. Because God loved that world, the people in the world, so much that he sent Jesus to die for them.
So perhaps it means, perhaps it means to us that we are not to love the systems of the world. We are not to love those institutions and decisions and ways of behaving that are opposed to God.
