Dennis R Wiles

FBC Arlington

September 27, 2020

FALL 2020

SEPTEMBER 6 – OCTOBER 31, 2020

The Love of God: A Study of 1 John

Loving God in the Everyday

1 John 2:15-17

RE-GATHERING . . . and . . . RENEWING!

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1 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. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

Do not love the world!

Kosmos – the world:

-God’s creation, the material universe

-the sinful forces of the world that stand in opposition against God

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

-1 John 5:19

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

-John 12:46

There's more that rises in the morning

Than the sun

And more that shines in the night

Than just the moon

It's more than just this fire here

That keeps me warm

In a shelter that is larger

Than this room

And there's a loyalty that's deeper

Than mere sentiments

And a music higher than the songs

That I can sing

The stuff of Earth competes

For the allegiance

I owe only to the Giver

Of all good things

So if I stand let me stand on the promise

That you will pull me through

And if I can't let me fall on the grace

That first brought me to You

And if I sing let me sing for the joy

That has born in me these songs

And if I weep let it be as a man

Who is longing for his home

-If I stand – Rich Mullins

The battle is in the everyday!

Choose to love God in the everyday of your life!