DAILY TRUTH - Do Not Love The World
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Summary
In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken tackles the question, Is God really calling us to hate the world? What does the Bible say about hating the world, and what does it mean to hate it?
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but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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are we called to have enmity a holy aversion and frustration and hatred of the offspring of satan
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being as i just described non-christians no let me say it again no not in that literal one-to-one
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sense let me explain what i mean by that the bible does not teach the universal fatherhood of god
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He is only the father of those who've been united to him
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But the Bible does teach the universal creatorhood of God
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the Bible doesn't teach the universal fatherhood,
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The Bible also doesn't teach universal brotherhood,
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so that it is not true if you are in Christ to say that all human beings are your brothers or
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sisters. They are only your brothers or sisters if they believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ.
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But that being said, the Bible does teach universal neighborhood. So who is my neighbor?
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everyone everyone non-christians and christians alike and what does the bible tell us what does
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christ our lord himself tell us in regards to how we should feel and treat our neighbor
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love your neighbor as yourself so as it relates to our disposition our relationship with
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unbelievers, what are we called to do? You can answer, love them. That's right. Okay, so I want
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to be very clear about that. However, at the same time, here's the nuance, in a different sense,
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all right, so this isn't breaking the laws of non-contradiction. In a different sense now,
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Jesus also tells us very clearly that Christians are not to love the world, and that there is a
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very real sense in which we, as followers of Christ, are called to hate the world. Jesus is
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very clear. Do not love the world. Do not love the world. Do not love the world. But then he's also
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clear, let me remind you of my earlier point, love your neighbor. Love your neighbor. So what's the
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distinction here? We have to be careful, right? The job of a theologian is all day long, not
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separations, right? You separate the three persons of the Trinity, and you're a heretic. But you
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distinguish them and you're solid. All right. And so to distinguish the nuance here is we are called
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to hate the world as the way the gospel of John and first John uses it over and over and over again,
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not as it relates to individual unbelievers, but as it relates to this organized demonic system
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under the domain and rule of Satan that stands in stark opposition and enmity against the things of
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God and against the people of God. So there is a way of hating abortion without hating the woman
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who is committed an abortion. There's a way of hating the LGBT agenda that wants to take your
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children. I'll never forget this tweet I saw right after the election in 2016. There's a liberal
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woman, very popular, thousands, tens of thousands of followers. And she said, if you're really angry
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about what happened. What you should do is move to a red state like Texas and become a teacher.
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If you really want to make a difference, that's what you should do. Move to a conservative state.
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Don't go and picket the White House and say he's not my, but you really want to make a difference?
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Go to a conservative state and become a teacher and indoctrinate while they're young. Do that.
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That's throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
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There is a righteous indignation towards the world, again, as the word world relates to the evil organized system under Satan's domain that enslaves people in darkness and stands in stark opposition and hatred towards God and his glory.
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In that sense, if you don't hate the world in that sense, I don't know if you love God.
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Because if we're honest, hatred is not a primary emotion.
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it is the result of what it looks like to love when you love this and then that is trying to
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destroy this you hate that that's what love does thanks so much for listening but real quick
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