The Love of the World

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
1 John 2:15-17

Love is a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties

Have you ever thought about God as love? He is love, and loves us. But there is a type of love that he doesn’t like, it is the love of the world. No one can simply love Christ and love the world at the same time. If you love Christ, you’ve given your whole life to Him.
God’s Love is a love we won’t be able to fathom until we are with Him. Today, we live in a society that defines love as an attraction. Like “love at first sight”. You have teenagers falling in “love” left an right because they are physically attracted to someone. This simply doesn’t even compare to God’s love on ANY scale!
Loving the world could be considered as being in rebellion against God. You have the lust of the flesh which is our desire to sin, the lust of the eyes which is being attracted by things that tempt us to sin, and the pride of life which is striving to live as though “you’re the best”. The world is a Christian’s enemy because of what it is and what it does.
Those who love the world over God are doomed!

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16

God “SO LOVED” the world! John MacArthur states in his commentary that “the word “so” emphasizes the intensity or greatness of His love.” He loved us so passionately that He sent His son to die for us so that, if we wanted, He would adopt us as a child of Him. So that when we die here on earth, that we would not have to endure eternal damnation.

What is your heart set on? Is it set on the ONLY One who can bring you happiness and fulfillment? Jesus Christ is the true lover of your life! He loves you more than anyone else could ever love you. Your love for someone could never outweigh God’s love for you!


Steven Curtis Chapman sings a song. It talks about Jim Elliot and the guys that went with him to a nation that were not receptive of the gospel. Jim Elliot and those men died, so that those people might know Christ. His wife went to the nation after the tragedy and they received Christ as their Savior, all because those “Men of Courage” were willing to give their life as Christ did so they might have eternal life.

Man of courage with your message of peace
What is that look in your eyes?
Why have you come to this faraway place?
What is this story you would lay down your life to tell?
What kind of love can this be?

There is no greater love than this
There is no greater gift that can ever be given
To be willing to die so another might live
There is no greater love than this

Broken hearted from all you have lost
How can you sing through your tears?
What is this music that can bear such a cost?
What is this fire that grows stronger against the wind?
What kind of flame can this be?

This is the love that God showed the world
When He gave us His Son
So we could know His love forever
Beyond the gates of splendor