Aug 17, 2014
Series: True Knowledge; True Assurance | Category: 1, 2, 3 John | Scripture: 1 John 2:15–2:17
All believers are in the process of spiritual growth known as sanctification.
(See 1 Peter 1:16)
2 biblical examples of loving the world: Gehazi (2 Kings 5:19b-27) Demas (2 Tim. 4:9-10)
I. The command. (1 John 2:15)
The world (kosmos) is a term that is used in a variety of ways in the NT. Here it stands for the world system that turns men away from God and toward self, possessions, and Satan.