WORLDLINESS
(See also FLESHLY; MATERIALISM; PLEASURE, worldly)
characteristics of worldliness:
♦ adopts an epicurean philosophy of living for present pleasures:
♦ focuses on earthly instead of heavenly treasures:
♦ strives to please others:
♦ manifests fleshly lusts instead of the Spirit:
• Galatians 5:19-23; Jude 18-19
♦ opposes the Father and love for Him:
♦ involves the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life:
♦ passes away with its lusts:
• 1 John 2:17 (cf. 1 Corinthians 7:31)
♦ general references:
victory over:
♦ be on guard against worldliness:
♦ do not be conformed to this world or age:
• Romans 12:2 (cf. 1 Peter 1:14)
♦ realize that Christians are crucified to the world:
♦ seek and set one's mind on heavenly and not earthly things:
♦ avoid worldly fables:
♦ trust God rather than riches in this present world:
♦ avoid worldly and empty chatter:
♦ avoid unnecessary entanglement with affairs of everyday life:
♦ deny worldly desires:
♦ reject worldly ambitions and pleasures:
♦ keep unstained by the world:
♦ do not be a friend of the world:
♦ do not love the world or the things in it:
• 1 John 2:15-17 (cf. 2 Timothy 4:10)
♦ overcome the world through the greater power of God:
♦ overcome the world through faith in Christ:
• 1 John 5:4-5 (cf. John 16:33)
results of worldliness:
♦ brings God's judgment:
♦ chokes the word:
♦ conflicts with love for the Father:
♦ causes hostility toward God:
♦ causes divisions:
• Jude 19
This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.