Love Not the World, 6

 

~ Because The World Does Not Know God ~

 

Introduction to This Series ~ The word world does not refer to the physical world and all its creative beauty. Rather, it refers to the world system, its typical beliefs and often anti-God actions.

 

Scripture ~ “He [Jesus] was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him” (John 1:10).

 

Jesus prayed, “O righteous Father!  The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.  And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them” (John 17:25-26). 

 

Christ’s Prayer to The Father for You ~ “I gave them Your Word; the godless world hated them because of it, because they didn’t join the world’s ways, just as I didn’t join the world’s ways.  I’m not asking that you take them out of the world but that you guard them from the Evil One.  They are no more defined by the world than I am defined by the world.  Make them holy — consecrated — with the truth; Your word is consecrating truth” (John 17:14-17, The Message).

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~