1 John 2 verse 15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. And if anyone loves the world, then the love of the Father is not in them.

Friends, worldliness is a perspective that you have that corrupts your connection to the Lord.

Now anything or anyone or any thought or any belief that stares you away from the truth of God's word is worldliness.

It is that fatal attraction that captures our minds and our hearts and draws us away from God and it diminishes our experience of God.

I mean it keeps us from knowing God as He wants to be known in our experience. And the world is a system headed by Satan with its primary purpose and goal to keep God out.

So whenever God is excluded from something, it is worldly. And the Bible says that all that is in the world is, first of all, the lust of the flesh and then the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life. Now flesh is driven by desire, what I want, what I crave for.

The flesh is our desire to please ourselves independently of God.

So when you want something God doesn't want or when you want something that God made but you want to get it illegitimately.

So God made food, gluttony is the illegitimate desire and pursuit of it and so that's flesh. God made wealth, materialism is the flesh. God made sex, immorality is the flesh.

So any craving that disregards what God wants and what He wills for you is the lust of the flesh.

Friends, have you realized that TV commercials are designed to stir up a desire in you for what is being advertised and so that you begin to think that you deserve what you now desire through what you have seen although it is illegitimate and then in the context of God's word it is illegitimate either in its purpose, in process or in proportion.

The lust of the eyes, I see it and therefore I'm going to get it even if it is illegitimate, is the deliberate pursuit of impressing others by any means possible to look better in the eyes of men.

The boastful pride of life, I mean creating a self-measured standard for men to perceive you, the pursuit of prestige when your priority is not God's glory but self-glory, how you look and what you want and here's the height of this deception.

Many people end up on social media praising God and thanking God for things that He didn't give to them and He doesn't want them to have.

Love not the world friends, the world is the love that God hates. Have a blessed day friends.