Ep 192 – 1 John 2:12-17 PT 3

In this, the third episode on at 1 John 2, verses 12-17, we’ll be discussing, “Misplaced Love.” John is going to contrast a love for God as illustrated in our love for others with a love for the world and the things it offers. These are not two available options for our love, they are opposites. You can’t love the world and love God at the same time. And it is hard to love others when we’re busy loving the things of this world and buying into their constant temptations to meet our every self-centered need. Love for the world is innately selfish. It is all about us. We love the world for what it can offer us in return. We give it our time, attention and affections, because it promises to make us happy, fulfilled, successful, popular, and satisfied. But love for God is other-oriented. It focuses on the needs of others. We love, not to get something in return, but simply because He first loved us. Loving the world makes it all about us. Loving God makes it all about others.