1) Sin empowers men with rights; with the right to seek their own things and do everything legitimately looking that always comes at the expense of the faith, and it takes the gospel of Christ to empower us to do otherwise (Phil. 2:4, 1Pet. 1:14, Rom. 1:16). Death is not just our last enemy but a higher empowerment that tempts men of stature with the right to pocket any glory that would embellish our name and person before men; temptations that require a handful of the righteous judgments of everlasting life to see through them (Lk. 4:3-13, Jn. 5:43, Heb. 5:14).
2) After coming over various temptations from this world, mostly from the pull around things that don’t last forever, we can still be tempted to love such things as long as we haven’t completed the curriculum of hating it (1Jn. 2:15-17, Rev. 3:17-18). The everlasting gospel was therefore given to help us to perfect the act and art of hating this world, even as we completely love the truth that is in the Father (Heb. 5:14, 1Jn. 5:4-5, 2Jn. 1:1-4).
3) There are pulls, expressions and temptations from the world that only show up after we have been financially empowered or have acquired privileges, graces and gifts above others (Deut. 32:15-16, Rev. 3: 16-17, 1Tim. 6:17). And such are the seasons when the everlasting Father, through fathers in possession of the divine nature, will warn us not to love the world; to seal our overcoming it by hating it (1Jn. 2:15; 5: 4-5, 1Cor. 7:31).
4) Developed nations welcome those who want to make money out of her or have a big ministry and become citizens of their country, but they all have a god who hates those who will strive to see her (spiritual) nakedness (Rev. 18:2-3, Isa. 14:15-17). Those who will do so will first have to keep loving not the world until they see how she captivates men and seduce servants of God. And only then can we hate her, keep loving the Father until we can hate the god of this world, and ultimately, inherit everlasting life (Rev. 2:20, Isa. 7:15, 1Jn. 2:15).
5) No believer can see the spiritual estate (or nakedness) of a developed nation, for example, without being enrolled by heaven as a prisoner of Christ; without being hedged around by the Lord, with a daily routine or lifestyle that daily starves the world (sin) (Gen. 14:21-24, Eph. 3:1, Tit. 2:12).
6) As long as we cannot cover a multitude of sins, we can’t claim to have fervent Charity or to have perfected it, and the strength to do so comes as we journey from loving not the world to hating it; hating those lusts that accompany things that pass away; things that aren’t incorruptible; things that limit us from loving the invisible (the will of God) (1Pet. 4:8, Gal. 6:14, 1Jn. 2:15-17).
7) The Lord can endure seasons where he has to share the soul of a believer with the world; seasons when there isn’t adequate grace to handle the consequences or lifestyle that came with the fall of man (Acts 17:30-31, Rom. 2:4, Heb. 5:1-2). But when He brings the everlasting gospel our way, He commands us to love not the world because it can still be loved in many unknown ways, especially while quietly or ignorantly seeking our own things; things around what He gave or committed to our trust in the course of service (Rom. 16:25-26, Jn. 12:25, Phil. 2:21).
8) Loving the things that are in this world – even things which little children in the Kingdom ought to be fully separated from – is the preparatory ground or bait for loving the world (in its glorious estate. (1Jn. 2:15, Matt. 8:13). The gospel of Christ guarantees our separation from the former, but it will take the gospel of God to separate us from the latter; to seal us against the corruptible (death), or make our soul incorruptible (Rom. 1:16, 1:1, 1Pet. 1:4, 1:23).
9) The season when our souls locate and abide in a new abode called the doctrine of Christ is the season when we have come over the love for the (old) things that are in this world; things under the influence of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life (2Jn. 1:9, 2Cor. 5:17, 1Jn. 2:15b). Fellowship with the things (thoughts and ways) of the Son and Father would not only smile our way, we would be further empowered to become sons who are wired to hate the world (1Jn. 1:3, Isa. 55:8, Jn. 1:12, Heb. 1:9).
10) A new man (Christ) who has been raised by the gospel of power (Christ) has to behold all things of God to be reconciled back to God, and so, we still have to acknowledge all the glorious truths that have been kept in the gospel of glory (God), to become glorious (2Cor. 5:17-18, Tit. 1:1, 1Tim. 1:11). So, by being victorious over our previous love for the (old) things that are in this world (lust of the flesh/eyes and the pride of life), we can behold the glory kept in the glorious gospel, even until we are empowered like Jesus was, to hate this world (1Jn. 2:15, 2Cor. 3:18, Jn. 12:30).
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