{"id":1097,"date":"2011-07-30T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2011-07-30T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T21:48:34","slug":"love-not-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/2011\/07\/30\/love-not-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Not the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Horatius Bonar wrote this nice little piece on why we as Christians are not to love the world.\u00a0 It was originally published in The Christian Treasury<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Because the gain of it is the loss of the soul.\u2014Matthew 16:25.<\/li>\n
  2. Because its friendship is enmity to God.\u2014James 4:4.<\/li>\n
  3. Because it did not know Christ.\u2014John 1:10; 17:25.<\/li>\n
  4. Because it hates Christ.\u2014John 7:7; 15:18.<\/li>\n
  5. Because the Holy Spirit has forbidden us.\u20141 John 2:15.<\/li>\n
  6. Because Christ did not pray for it.\u2014John 17:9.<\/li>\n
  7. Because Christ\u2019s people do not belong to it.\u2014John 17:16.<\/li>\n
  8. Because it will not receive the Spirit.\u2014John 14:27.<\/li>\n
  9. Because its Prince is Satan.\u2014John 13:31; 16:11.<\/li>\n
  10. Because Christ\u2019s kingdom is not of it.\u2014John 18:36.<\/li>\n
  11. Because its wisdom is foolishness.\u20141 Corinthians 1:20.<\/li>\n
  12. Because its wisdom is ignorance.\u20141 Corinthians 1:21.<\/li>\n
  13. Because Christ does not belong to it.\u2014John 8:23.<\/li>\n
  14. Because it is condemned.\u20141 Corinthians 11:32.<\/li>\n
  15. Because the fashion of it passeth away.\u20141 Corinthians 7:31.<\/li>\n
  16. Because it slew Christ.\u2014James 5:6; Matthew 21:39.<\/li>\n
  17. Because it is crucified to us.\u2014Galatians 6:14.<\/li>\n
  18. Because we are crucified to it.\u2014Galatians 6:14.<\/li>\n
  19. Because it is the seat of wickedness.\u20142 Peter 1:4; 1 John 5:19.<\/li>\n
  20. Because its God is the evil one.\u20142 Corinthians 4:4.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u2018Love not the world! It cannot be your home,
    Thy fatherland must be the world to come;
    There lay up treasures for eternity;
    And where thy treasure is thy heart shall be.\u2019
    \u2014H.B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Horatius Bonar wrote this nice little piece on why we as Christians are not to love the world.\u00a0 It was originally published in The Christian Treasury. Because the gain of it is the loss of the soul.\u2014Matthew 16:25. Because its friendship is enmity to God.\u2014James 4:4. Because it did not know Christ.\u2014John 1:10; 17:25. Because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-teaching-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}