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Worldliness in the church has a devastating effect upon the witness of the church. If the world sees that we too as people of God have become materialistic, it will surely use that as an occasion to blaspheme the name of our Lord. May God give to us a spiritual perspective on the proper use of mater
We are called to live in spiritual separation from the world as the holy and peculiar people of the Lord. Separation is first of all a matter of the heart of the child of God. He must not love the world nor set his affections upon the things of this world. We must separate ourselves spiritually from
“The pride of life” is the arrogance that belongs to this present, earthly life. The word “pride” means arrogance, a boasting caused by self-sufficiency. One with the pride of life lives without God in his thoughts. The world encourages us to live independently of God, to find everything we need in
Worldly-mindedness is seeking after earthly treasures and not the heavenly treasures. It is also a certain symptom of hypocrisy. We live in the world. We listen to the world’s music, go to the world’s movies, we drink and dance with the world, and we even let the world into our homes through the T.V
It is earthly things, riches, advantages, pleasures which are hollow and fleeting, stirring up evil desires, seducing us from God and are obstacles to the cause of Christ. The “world” is that sphere of evil as it exists on earth. So “world” can mean “godless men” or “the sphere of ungodliness.” We
The word of God definitely means for us to completely break with the world in every department of our life. Conformity with the world includes, among others, our outward appearance. We judge people, and very often rightly so, by their outward appearance. We speak of “women of the world” or a “man of
They should relax their watch on worldliness, for much that was once considered worldly such as the movie, the dance, etc. are not worldly at all, but the fruits of common grace; and they ought to be recognized as such.
A spirit of worldly-mindedness has captivated the church. Church-world, believer-unbeliever, Christ-Belial, supposedly go hand in hand. For the most part that spirit is manifested in the preaching in that the call to separation is not clearly sounded forth. There was another age, another world, in w