Post by Giller on Feb 4, 2024 8:49:06 GMT -5
1Jn 2:15-17
(15) 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.
(16) 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.
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
The word love in verse 15, in the Greek is Agapao.
Here is the meaning:
(Strong's concordance)
(G25
ἀγαπάω
agapaō
ag-ap-ah'-o
Perhaps from ἄγαν agan (much; or compare [H5689]); to love (in a social or moral sense): - (be-) love (-ed). Compare G5368.
Total KJV occurrences: 142)
We are called to not love the world, nor the things that are in the world.
Now that does not mean that we do not love the people of the world, for it says God is love and for God so loved the world, but concerning not loving the things of this world, it is in reference to things mentioned in these next verses:
Mat 10:37
(37) He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
1Ti 6:10
(10) For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
It is a type of love, to were you love men, more than you love God, to were you have the love of money and not the love of God.
To were you are making an idol of things, whether men, son , father ,daughter, or money.
When it says to not love the things of this world, it is really talking about say things like money, your mother etc., but it is not saying to not have any love for your mother, but rather that you do not make them come before God, and that they are not your ultimate affection.
And concerning money, we use money, but we do not bough down to money.
And were we should put our ultimate affection in, is towards God, were we show him the ultimate much love, which when done we can reflect a proper love towards men.
and then we choose to accept their sin and etc . Many folks have done that . They chose their child and its ways over GOD and HIS ways .