THE LETTERS OF JOHN Who You Love Matters · Dr. Chris Montgomery · January 19, 2025 1 John 2:15-29 1. I cannot love the world when God’s love is in me. (1 John 2:15) 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.
2. The longing, looking, and perspective of the world is obvious. (1 John 2:16) 16 For all that is in the world – the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life – is not from the Father but is from the world.
3. I have a choice between a fleeting world or a forever God. (1 John 2:17) 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
I must come to terms with the reality that I am living in the last hour. Many times when I go to bed at night I think to myself that before I awaken Christ may come. Billy Graham
4. Some will exchange the forever God for the world that is fading. (1 John 2:18-19) 18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore 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 it might become plain that they all are not of us.