An Admonition to Love Not the World
DeVries expounds 1 John 2:15-17 to warn Reformed believers against worldliness and spiritual compromise in contemporary culture. The article grounds the call to separate from worldly pursuits in the doctrines of election, regeneration, and the antithesis between God's kingdom and the world, urging vigilance against the spiritual dangers of materialism and pleasure-seeking.
"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 John 2:15-17 John's first epistle emphasizes the truth of the antithesis, the spiritual separation that exists between...
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