this world has nothing for me
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Spiritual battles with the lust of the flesh, our enemyTRANSCRIPT
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The Lust of the Flesh Our Enemy, pt. 1: (1 John 2:15–17)
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15Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for
when you love the world, you do not have the love of the
Father in you.
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16For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure,
a craving for everything we see, and pride in our
achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from
this world.
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17And this world is fading away, along with everything
that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God
will live forever. NLT
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indicating a place of corruption, a place antagonistic and strong aversion to God, a place in the grip of the demonic “powers.” ISBE
Here John uses the term world in a highly negative connotation,
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Love is used 3 times in v. 3 and
in every case it is agape.
Agape of the world is sin.
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Don’t love the world because it
Opposes God
Fading away
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2 Timothy 4:10 - Demas has deserted me because he loves
the things of this life… NLT
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Matthew 13:3-23
Rocky Soil They fall away as soon as they
have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s
word.
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Matthew 13:3-23
Thorny Soil The message is crowded out by the worries of this life and
the lure of wealth
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Matthew 13:3-23
Only the Good Soil that produces fruit is a
true believer.
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James 4:4
You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of
God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the
world, you make yourself an enemy of God. NLT
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1 John 2:19
These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us;
otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left,
it proved that they did not belong with us. NLT
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physical pleasure
everything we see
pride in our achievements &
possessions
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Luke 22:15
And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired (lust) to eat this Passover with you before
I suffer. ESV
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Lust of the flesh is an offer that comes from outside of us
that stirs up the sin in us two ways
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1. By what it is (pornography)
2. How it is achieved (premarital & extramarital
sex).
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At the fundamental level, the sin in us perverts or
distorts a God given desire (Jeremiah 17:9)
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1. Set your sights on the realities of heaven
Colossians 3:1-15
2. Put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you.
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Colossians 3:1-15
3. Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you
learn to know your Creator and become like him.
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Doing good for one’s own sake rather than for God’s is not doing good at all, but is
merely a hypocritical projection of the sin of
self-love.
Romans Commentary, John MacArthur
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Meditation & Application
Say No to the offerings of the world by Trusting that Jesus is
sufficient for you now.
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Meditation & Application
Take time to identify the values
of the offer.
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Meditation & Application
Be mindful that sin is in you
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Meditation & Application
Ask the LORDto reveal sin in your life.
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Meditation & Application
Ask the LORDto to make the
Two Great Commandments realities in your life.
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Meditation & Application
Grow in the skillful use of your Offensive Weapon -
The Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.
(Eph 6:17)