IT'S NOT WORTH IT: YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH WORLDS

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Hello Beloved, I welcome you into this glorious month of march in the name of the Lord. May you increase in the knowledge and wisdom of God this month in Jesus name. This month I will be admonishing you on what I titled “you can’t have both worlds.”

2nd Timothy 4:10 says, “For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.” When Paul wrote a letter to Timothy his son in the faith, he reported to him on a christian called Demas saying that Demas, having loved this present world has deserted him. Today, Bible readers easily identify Demas as an apostate (a person who has renounced his faith). Take note that it is not because he deserted Paul that made him apostate, but that it is because he loved the world. “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. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” -1st John 2:15-16. God and the world cannot coexist in the heart. Two trains cannot be on the same track. Even if it were possible for two trains to run on the same track, there is yet another thing that can never happen; God and the devil cannot coexist in a person’s heart. A heart is either dedicated to God or the world. Therefore, a person cannot love God and the world at the same time, you can’t have both world’s. The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 6:14-15, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

God identified Himself to Moses and the Israelites as a jealous God. (Exodus 20:5). He would not like to share the space in our hearts with any other. Therefore God, by His very nature, would not like you to divide your love and devotion between Him and another thing; He would like to have everything. Hence, a Christian has to choose one – either to love God and hate the world or love the world and hate God. “For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is jealous, is a jealous God.” Exodus 34:14.

Listen brethren, you automatically stop loving God if you love the world. “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 him.” 1st John 2:15. Clearly, it means that any Christian who loves the world ceases to love God. No Christian can love both God and the world at the same time. These two opposes each other and cannot coexist. Therefore, when your love for God dwindles, it translates to the loss of the desire to pray, fast, study the Bible and attend Church services. And such Christians drift away from God day by day until he/she completely fall away.When you love the world, you are making yourself an enemy of God. I want you to take note here in this passage of the scriptures, James was addressing Christians and not unbelievers, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” James 4:4.

Day in, day out Christians are being driven by many factors into dropping their faith in Jesus Christ and embracing the world and its system. But the Bible says “walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16. Walking in the spirit is loving God and loving God will cause you to go above the world and its fallen system. God bless you.

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