LOVE NOT THIS WORLD
 
    By A. W. Tozer

    The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that
    believe not.    2 Corinthians 4:4

        Our Lord Jesus Christ drew a sharp line between the
    Kingdom  of  God  and this  present  world.  He has
    instructed us that no one can be at the same time - a lover
    of both!

        The  apostles  stood  together in  the  New  Testament
    teachings, that it is necessary for a person to turn the back
    upon the world and have not fellowship with it.

        What, then, is this world against which we are warned?

        It is the familiar world of human society. No Christian
    need fail  to  recognize  it,  providing he wants to know
    what it is. Here are a few of its marks of identification:

   1. Unbelief. To have fellowship with those who live in
    unbelief - is the love of the world. Religion without the Son
    of God is worldly religion.

    2. Impenitence. The worldling shrugs off his sin and
    continues in it. The Christian mourns over his sin and is
    comforted.

    3. Godless philosophies. Men and women of this world
    accept the sufficiency of this world and make no
    provision for any other, esteeming earth above heaven.

    4. Externalism. The man of the earth lives only for the
    world around him----he has no kingdom within him!

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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.