对世界的心态
约翰壹书二章15至24节
15不要爱世界和世界上的事。人若爱世界，爱父的心就不在他里面了。
16因为凡世界上的事，就像肉体的情欲，眼目的情欲，并今生的骄傲，都不是从父来的，乃是从世界来的。
17这世界和其上的情欲都要过去，惟独遵行神旨意的，是永远常存。
18小子们哪，如今是末时了。你们曾听见说，那敌基督的要来；现在已经有好些敌基督的出来了，从此我们就知道如今是末时了。
19他们从我们中间出去，却不是属我们的；若是属我们的，就必仍旧与我们同在；他们出去，显明都不是属我们的。
20你们从那圣者受了恩膏，并且知道这一切的事（或作：都有知识）。
21我写信给你们，不是因你们不知道真理，正是因你们知道，并且知道没有虚谎是从真理出来的。
22谁是说谎话的呢？不是那不认耶稣为基督的么？不认父与子的，这就是敌基督的。
23凡不认子的，就没有父；认子的，连父也有了。
24论到你们，务要将那从起初所听见的，常存在心里。若将从起初所听见的存在心里，你们就必住在子里面，也必住在父里面。
信息分享
这段经文所说的「世界」，不是指到神创造的自然世界，而是人一手造出来的罪恶世界和无神的世界。这个世界已被撒但的权势所控制，它弃绝基督，更把基督钉死。因此，信徒不可能既爱基督，又同时爱这个世界。
约翰提到「凡世界上的事」，究竟是指到甚么呢？世界的引诱自古不变。我们今天仍会让肉体的情欲──就是我们的私欲──主宰我们的生活。我们的旧人总是蠢蠢欲动，撒但也喜欢牵动我们的旧本性来引诱我们犯罪。
外面的花花世界，会惹动我们的眼目的情欲。它可能引发我们的贪念，希望得到别人所拥有的东西。
今生的骄傲是对自己的身分或所拥有的东西感到自满。这种骄傲的心态，正是导致人类始祖犯罪的因由──希望能够像神一样，所以听信蛇的诱惑吃了果子。
基督曾经历过这一切试探，但祂总能以神的话语来胜过，并且重申自己的心志是渴望遵行神的旨意。这一切试探，以及我们屈从于试探所带来的罪，都属于这个世界。这世界将要过去，但遵行神话语的人将永远长存。两者之间，你会怎样选择呢？
祷告：
主啊，当有试探来到的时候，求你使我及时醒觉，并使我立志遵行你的旨意，而不是自己的意思。
OUR ATTITUDE TO THIS WORLD
1 John 2:15-24
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
Message
Do we understand what the world really is? Doesn't the Bible say that God so loved the world? God loved the world in order to save it from sin. Man loves the world in order to enjoy its sin. God's love was sacrificial. Man's love for the world is selfish.
But what is meant in these verses by the world? It is not the world God made but the world man has made. I love the world of nature, don't you, but the world that is spoken of here is a world of sin and godlessness. It is the world lying in the power of Satan, the world which rejected and crucified Christ. It is impossible to love such a world and to love Christ at the same time.
John speaks of 'all that is in the world'. What is in it? The temptations of the world haven't changed. There is still the lust of the flesh, which is allowing our natural desires to rule our lives. These are temptations from within that come from our old nature, or from Satan working on that old nature.
The lust of the eyes is desire awakened by seeing things that tempt us-in other words temptations that come from outside our own selves. This could include covetousness wanting the things other people have.
The pride of life is being proud of what I am or what I have. It is a temptation also to get something that we don't have such as the temptation which Satan brought to Eve-'If you eat that fruit you will be as God.'
Christ met each of these temptations. His constant answer came from his desire to do the will of God and his knowledge of the Word of God. These temptations and the sin which follows when we yield to them, all belong to the world. That world will pass away but 'he that does the will of God will abide for ever'. Which would you rather have?
A PRAYER:
Lord help me today to recognise temptation when it comes and to always choose your will and not mine.