Love Not the World

1 John 2:15-17   

    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.  [16] For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.  [17] And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

 

Assuming we do not need to be Greek scholars to understand the bible it appears John is telling his readers not love any aspect of the physical since it is passing away.

 

The word translated world refers to (2889-orderly arrangement, by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense including its inhabitants)). He emphasizes if anyone loves (25-in a social or moral sense) the world the love (26-affection or benevolence) of the father is not in him.

 

 

Now listen to our prayers, listen to our concerns they are all about "us."  Jesus says where our treasure is there are heart will be. Our heart is in the world. Christians can read, they can understand, they cannot intellectually apply. Christians do not have the love of the father in them. I can only presume unless they change they are lost.