RTW 2023

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.

‍1 John 2:15

Things become conflicted when we try to love Him, loves others and love the world.

Thus, we are faced with the conflict of love.

• Conflict: a state of opposition between ideas
• Conflict comes when compromise His commands.

We aren’t left alone when it comes to sin. God left us a helper. Holy Spirit is two-fold

• Defend us from our sin- salvation
• Help us not sin – save us over and over again from ourselves

As Christians, we have a different relationship with sin. Sin still has a pull, but it doesn’t have power.

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:14 (ESV)

“The Christian no longer loves sin; it is the object of his s”ternest horror: he no longer regards it as a mere trifle, plays with it, or talks of it with unconcern… Sin is dejected in the Christian’s heart, though it is not ejected. Sin may enter the heart, and fight for dominion, but it cannot sit upon the throne.” – Charles Spurgeon

John reminds us that we are not in this alone.

• So, you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father.
  1 John 2:24

• And now, dear children, remain in fellowship with Christ so that when he returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from him in shame.
  1 John 2:28

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Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So, they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.
1 John 3:9

When someone is truly saved, and one with God, through Christ and Spirit, he or she cannot easily and thoughtlessly live a life of habitual sin, without conviction and repentance.

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Don’t live in conflict.

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