WORLDLY DESIRES (5 OF 6)
Scripture: 1 John 2:15-17
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Worldly Desires (5 of 6)
Series: Spiritual Battle
Stephen Whitney
1 John 2:15-17
The story is told of Duchess Isabella who went to her court medium with a request. He was a crafty deceiver and he promised that she could have what she wanted, but on one condition. For the next three and a half months (100 days) she would have to kiss a certain painting every day to obtain her wish.
Each day, the medium smeared a tasteless poison on the painting, which stuck to her lips when she kissed it. Gradually her health declined and her golden hair turned white. Before a hundred days had passed, she was dead. Following the medium's advice became to her the ''kiss of death.''
Satan is deceptive and will tempt us with things that don't seem evil or wrong, but the longer we continue to sin the greater the danger that he will control our lives. Habits are hard to break.
Charles Stanley - ''Temptations begin in the mind. Our feet, hands, and bodies follow where the mind leads us. It is in our minds that we remember, we understand and we make decisions.
The battle ground with Satan is the mind.''
John gives us a warning about loving the world which begins
with how we think about the world in which we live.
GENERAL WARNING :15
Do not - a warning is given because we are naturally tempted to
do something that is wrong. John Calvin - ''God knows well that we are greatly inclined to love this world by natural instinct.''
Love - when used of things means to be contented or pleased with.
John 3:19 Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. They are able to get away with them in the dark.
World - refers the man-made system of how the world operates.
The world operates on the principle of doing whatever you can
or have to in order to get ahead or what makes you happy.
Things in (KJB of) the world - those things that belong to the world in which we live that we believe will make us happy.
• Physical possessions such as: clothes ...
Series: Spiritual Battle
Stephen Whitney
1 John 2:15-17
The story is told of Duchess Isabella who went to her court medium with a request. He was a crafty deceiver and he promised that she could have what she wanted, but on one condition. For the next three and a half months (100 days) she would have to kiss a certain painting every day to obtain her wish.
Each day, the medium smeared a tasteless poison on the painting, which stuck to her lips when she kissed it. Gradually her health declined and her golden hair turned white. Before a hundred days had passed, she was dead. Following the medium's advice became to her the ''kiss of death.''
Satan is deceptive and will tempt us with things that don't seem evil or wrong, but the longer we continue to sin the greater the danger that he will control our lives. Habits are hard to break.
Charles Stanley - ''Temptations begin in the mind. Our feet, hands, and bodies follow where the mind leads us. It is in our minds that we remember, we understand and we make decisions.
The battle ground with Satan is the mind.''
John gives us a warning about loving the world which begins
with how we think about the world in which we live.
GENERAL WARNING :15
Do not - a warning is given because we are naturally tempted to
do something that is wrong. John Calvin - ''God knows well that we are greatly inclined to love this world by natural instinct.''
Love - when used of things means to be contented or pleased with.
John 3:19 Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. They are able to get away with them in the dark.
World - refers the man-made system of how the world operates.
The world operates on the principle of doing whatever you can
or have to in order to get ahead or what makes you happy.
Things in (KJB of) the world - those things that belong to the world in which we live that we believe will make us happy.
• Physical possessions such as: clothes ...
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