JUST WHAT IS THE ‘WORLD’ AND OR THE ‘STATE’?
Defining the ‘world’
1 JOHN world … Cosmos /cosmological / infected, polluted.
James stay…784 áspilos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "without" and 4696 /spílos,
"spot, blemish") – properly, unspotted (unstained); (figuratively) undefiled and hence fully
acceptable.b784 /áspilos ("unspotted," literally, "without spot or stain") refers to what
is morally (spiritually) untainted, i.e. morally unblemished (pure) – "free from censure,
irreproachable, free from vice, unsullied" (K. Wuest). Biblehub.com
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1. ITS WHAT WE KNOW
• Did not choose to be born.
• Into the jungle
• Are you ‘NORMAL’?
• The songs we sing.
‘’In other words it would have been Satan in his primal revolt who
brought fear and violence into the world of non-man’’
‘’As we shall see, all nature becomes abnormal ….’’
Schaeffer, Francis A.. Genesis in Space and Time (Bible Commentary for Layman) (p. 93). InterVarsity Press. Kindle
Edition.
2. ITS WHAT WE LIVE IN
• Genesis 3… thorns and thistles /abnormality
• Not made for pain, tears, evil, harm, disease or death
• Can’t get out.
• Adapt
• Ecclesiastes ‘meaning’
3. IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE
• There is conflict in the brain…….in the heart.
• Soul sorrow
• A conscience
• Fear of death
• The questions
a. Meaning
b. Origins
c. Endings
d. What’s next.
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4. THE WORLD SYSTEM/THE STATE IS
• 1 John
a. Not of the world
b. In the world
c. The lust of the eyes,
d. This world system is fading
e. The evil one is in control of this world
f. 2 Corinthians 4:4 god of this world
g. This present evil age/ aeon
Romans 12 … do not conform! Be transformed.
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