(1 John 2:15) “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
There is a love that God hates. Christians can become worldly, and they do so (like Lot) by degrees. First there is friendship with the world (James 4:4); then conformity to the world (Rom. 12:2); and finally love for the world (1 John 2:15-17). Anything in our lives that keeps us from enjoying God’s love and doing God’s will is worldly and should be put away. To live for the world is to deny the cross of Christ (Gal. 6:14). The world hates Christ; how can the Christian love the world.
(John 15:19) “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
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