Part 4: What Am I Chasing After?
WHAT’S YOUR NEXT MOVE?
PART 4
1 John 2:15-17
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOVE THE WORLD?
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.” 1 John 2:15 (NIV)
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NIV)
Realize every person is made in God’s image.
“With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.” James 3:9-10 (NIV)
You love people who don’t know God.
“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.” John 3:17 (NIV)
Do your job, whatever it is, to God’s glory.
“Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.” Colossians 3:23 (NLT)
WHAT MAKES THE WORLD SO DANGEROUS?
“For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.” 1 John 2:16 (NIV)
Worldly–a mindset where the things of this world become ultimate.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” Matthew 6:25-27 (NIV)
WHOEVER DOES THE WILL OF GOD LIVES FOREVER.
“The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.” 1 John 2:17 (NIV)
“Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.” Luke 22:42 (NIV)
The solution: You are God’s child, you are forgiven and your Father loves you.
MY NEXT STEP TODAY IS:
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