Transcript John 2.15-17 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.

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John
2.15-17
Do not love the world or
anything in the
world. If anyone loves the world, love for
the Father is not in them. For everything
in the world—the lust of the flesh, the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—
comes not from the Father but from the
world. 17 The world and its desires pass
away, but whoever does the will of God
lives forever.
Genesis
3.1-7
Now the serpent was more
crafty than any of
the wild animals the Lord God had made. He
said to the woman, “Did God really say,
‘You must not eat from any tree in the
garden’?”The woman said to the serpent, “We
may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit
from the tree that is in the middle of the
garden, and you must not touch it, or you
will die.’”
Genesis 3.1-7
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to
the woman.
“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes
will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing
good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was
good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also
desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and
ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was
with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of
them were opened, and they realized they were
naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made
coverings for themselves.
The Fruit
Good for Food - Lust of the Flesh
Pleasing to the Eyes - Lust of the Eyes
Desirable for Gaining Wisdom - Pride of
Life
Holiday Disillusionment
comes when we look to our
festivities for what only
the Father can give.
Ephesians 3.16-19
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you
with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that
Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray
that you, being rooted and established in love, may have
power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp
how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you
may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
According to His Riches
According to His Riches
He may GRANT you strength
According to His Riches
He may GRANT you strength
Through HIS Spirit
According to His Riches
He may GRANT you strength
Through HIS Spirit
In your Inner Being
So that…
Christ may dwell in your heart
You will know Christ and his love for you
You will have the fullness of God
Moses
"I will do the very thing you have asked
because I am pleased with you and I know
you by name. Then Moses said, ‘Show me
your glory.’"
David
“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so
pants my soul for you, O God. My soul
thirsts for God, for the living God.”
Paul
“I want to know Christ - yes, to know the
power of his resurrection and participation
in his sufferings, becoming like him in his
death.”
Mary Magdalene
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he
came to a village where a woman named Martha opened
her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who
sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.
But Martha was distracted by all the preparations
that had to be made. She came to him and asked,
“Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to
do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are
worried and upset about many things, but few things
are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what
is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Brother Lawrence
My most usual method is this simple
attention, and such a general passionate
regard to God; to whom I find myself often
attached with greater sweetness and delight
than that of an infant at the mother’s
breast… if sometimes my thoughts wander
from it by necessity or infirmity, I am
presently recalled by inward motions, so
charming and delicious that I am ashamed to
mentioned them.
Herman Bavink
The more abundantly the benefits of
civilization come streaming our way, the
emptier our lives become. With all its
wealth and power, it only shows that the
human heart in which God has put eternity,
is so huge that all the world is too small
to satisfy it.”
CS Lewis
"It would seem that our Lord finds our
desires not too strong, but too weak. We
are half-hearted creatures fooling about
with drinking and sex and ambition when
infinite joy is offered us, like an
ignorant child who wants to go on making
mud pies in a slum because he cannot
imagine what is meant by the offer of a
cruise at the sea. We are far too easily
pleased.”
Psalm 1
Blessed is the one
Who does not walk in step with the wicked
Stand in the way that sinners take
Sit in the company of Mockers
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord
And who meditates on his law day and night
That person is light a tree planted by streams of
water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf
does not wither - whatever they do prospers.