Choose Your Love

CHOOSE YOUR LOVE

Sermon series: Can You Really Know? by Pastor Brent Snook / July 11, 2021

Main Bible Text: 1 John 2:15-17

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.  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. 

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

I. Denunciation for loving the world

A. The Description of the World

A child of God has 3 great foes:

1. An external enemy = the
2. An internal enemy = the
3. The infernal enemy = the

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (John 15:18-19)

B. The Decision regarding the World

II. Devices of loving the World

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. (1 John 2:16)

A. The lust of the flesh: TEMPTATION

B. The lust of the eyes: TEMPTATION

C. The pride of life: TEMPTATION OF THE

III. Danger of loving the World

A. The world’s

B. The world’s

Read: 1 John 2:17

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all. But the things I have placed in God’s hands – I still possess.” – Martin Luther

IV. Defense of loving the World

A. Defense through

The process of loving this world:

1. with the world
2. Is by the world
3. the world
4. to the world

B. Defense through

How to overcome the world:

1. The of our faith
2. The of the Holy Spirit
3. The for the Word of God