"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world world, the love of the Father is not in him". (1 John 2:15)
The importance of this truth cannot be overemphasized. To know God in true spirituality and to make eternal impact, a man must be ready to sacrifice everything that the world has to offer.
Like Paul, we must count all things we gain of the world as loss and as dung that we may know Christ. (Philippians 3:8)
To turn our backs against the world, we must prayerfully make the decision (vow) to let go of the world and all that is in it, take up our cross daily, and follow the Lord. (Luke 9:23)
In this message, the Lord helps us understand what to turn our backs on and the need to move away from what holds us back in making impact for the Kingdom of God in the lives of men.