“Do not love the world”! Do not love the world means do not love the system that governs the world. What is the system that governs the world? It is the law! We have to do good to get good, when we do bad, we get beat! The phase “Do not love the world” does not mean loving the things of the world also. The things of the world are just the fruits of the world.
When I first came to the Lord, I was given an impression that if you love to go shopping, party and other soc
ial activities instead of church activities, you are actually loving the world. If you love to change your hand phone, change your car, dye your hair, very fashionable, you love the world. I believed that, because that is what the worldly people do. But as I grow in the Lord and beginning to see grace, I start to understand that these are only the fruits and not the root. The root cause is actually the law! The law makes us live in our flesh, we are legalistic, self righteousness and always judging others. As the result, we can only see the fruits produced by our law abiding because our eyes are veiled by the law and it prevents us from seeing the root cause.
Contrary to this, when we see grace, this veil is taken away, the wisdom of God helps us to see the difference between the root and the fruits. Grace deals with the root while law deals with the fruits. Law demands our outward behavior modification while grace transforms us from inside out. Law demands our outward performance while grace gives us strength and grace to perform. Jesus cursed the root of the fig tree instead of the leaf of the fig tree although the leaf represents the self righteousness of the Israel people. Once the root is cursed, the leave withered.
The law is the root of the system that governs the world! Therefore, try to read it this way, it may help you to understand better, i.e. Do not love the law or anything in the world. If anyone loves the law, the love of the Father is not in him.
Our Heavenly Father is not of the law but of grace because He gave up His one and only Begotten Son to die on the cross to give us this new covenant, which is not of law but of grace.
If you love grace, you will know how not to love the world!
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