What is "The World", and related questions *

Q: So many people go along day by day oblivious to the hidden realities on this sin stained earth. How can we explain The World, its evil and how to identify what is of the World so we can avoid it and advise others; new and growing believers?

A: This is a good question and point. Most, (even young people in Church and young believers) are oblivious to the evil in the world and what thngs are "of the World". They seem to be embracing anything vs submitting to God's Word, God's Will and what Scripture clearly tells them. They prefer to go their own way rather than be faithful to study the Bible and to live out godly lives based on it.

First and most importantly go here Your Friendly Enemy, and then come back and read the below...

Hopefully this growing list will help you and others as we follow God and pick up our cross daily to follow Jesus as faithful obedient followers.

Let's look at some Verses to start...

General Sinfulness:

Romans 3:23: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

1 John 3:4: "Whoever commits sin transgresses the law, for sin is the transgression of the law."

Rejection of God:

"in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

- 2 Corinthians 4:4

Psalm 53:1-3: "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, There is none who does good. God looked down from heaven upon the sons of man To see if there were any who understood, Who sought after God. Every one of them has turned aside; They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not even one."

John 1:11: "He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him."

Romans 1:21: "For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened."

Isaiah 59:2: "But your iniquities have separated you from your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear."

Spiritual Blindness and Deception:

2 Corinthians 4:4: "In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."

Romans 1:28: "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done."Proverbs 18:3: "When a sinner comes to ruin, his spirit is rebellious; Even before his fall he will be full of pride."

Pride and Rebellion:

Proverbs 21:4: "Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, are sin."

Genesis 6:5-6: "Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart."

Isaiah 14:13-14: "You said, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'"

Love of the World and its Pleasures:

1 John 2:15-17: "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. 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. And the world is passing away, and also its lusts; but he who does the will of God abides forever."

2 Timothy 3:4: "They have a form of godliness but deny its power. Have nothing to do with them."

James 4:4: "Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

Specific Sins:

Ephesians 4:17-19: "Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedily practicing every form of impurity."

Colossians 3:5-6: "Put to death, therefore, what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. For because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience."

1 Peter 4:3-4: "For the time past is sufficient for you to have lived out the lusts of the Gentiles in sensuality, licentiousness, carousing, drunkenness, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. But now they are surprised that you are not joining them in their wild debauchery, and they blaspheme."

Moral Depravity and Injustice:

Micah 3:1-3: "I said, 'Hear now, heads of Jacob, You rulers of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know justice? You who hate good and love evil, Who strip the skin from my people And tear their flesh from their bones, Who eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from them, And break their bones in pieces, And chop them in pieces as for the pot, And as flesh in the caldron.'"

Psalm 10:1-4: "Why, O LORD, do You stand far away? Why do You hide in times of trouble? In arrogance the wicked hotspur pursues the poor; Let them be caught in the schemes they have devised. For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, The greedy blesses himself though he curses the LORD. The wicked in his proud countenance says, 'He will not seek vengeance.'"

Isaiah 59:7-8: "Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their paths. They have not known the way of peace, And there is no justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, And whoever walks in them does not know peace."

Consequences of Sin:

Romans 6:23: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Proverbs 13:15: "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts."

Galatians 6:7-8: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life."

John 3:36: "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

Hebrews 9:27: "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,"

Revelation 21:8: "But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."- Revelation 20:11-15

In 1 John 2:15–17, things in this world are put in perspective:

“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

"Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular."- 1 Corinthians 12:27

"And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."- Revelation 21:2-4

Believers do not live like the children of Satan, because they are children of God.

List of things that are of the World:

*Not loving God with all our heart, mind and soul 247 365

*Creating false idols or views of God that is a false god in their own making; one where your god would never this or that or your god approves of this or that.

*Claiming to be Christian and going to church for "benefits" like business connections, works mentality to get something out of it; looking good in others eyes, looking good to the leadership, there to do business deals, to pretend you are a good person when you are evil, or full of secret sins, or a pedophile, rapist, murderer, plotting to rob the church and the people.

*Robbing believers in various spiritual ways.

*Decieving believers to dash their faith in church and "Christians"

*Allowing demons to posess you

* Sin- of any and every kind.

*Pride; in all its forms

*Arrogance

*Self righteousnes

*Selfishness

*Idolatry (which covers a variety of things)

*Immursing yourself into things that take your time so you are not focusing on God, but replacing him with it.

*Envy

*Greed

*Hatred; hating an entire race, hating those who have what you dont, jelousy, strife, desires to harm or destroy others. Any form of hatred in your heart or in actions.

*Victim mentality

*Out to get things you didn't earn or pay for

*Divisions

*Road rage

*Missusing guns

*Plotting/threatening/acting out w guns/bombs/ weapons

*Being in gangs

*Plotting evil

*Befriending & being with bad company

*Committing crimes

*Doing wickedness

*Deviancy

*Sexual sins

*Stealing/Robbing/Plundering/Shoplifting/

Loting/Scamming others

*Coveting and desiring things God has not given to you

*Desiring things that belong to others and entertaining udeas or acting iut plots to obtain those things (money, power etc included)

*Dishonoring God

*Dishonoring and disobeying parents

*Doing things that are attention seeking.

*Doing, promoting or sharing sinful things

*Trying to gain money, attention or fame by doing anything ungodly

*Seeing to rule over others for attention, power, control, revenge

*People focused on money, wanting more and more money, even exploiting others to get it. Even various things like fake materials, useless stuff sold to gain from others, fake business seminars or ones used just to get $ from others.

*Preaching the false health and wealth gospel and clamoring to make loads of money from the naive.

*Using people to profit off them

*Holding onto your money vs using what God gave you to be a good steward of it to help others.

*Giving money only to get something out of it.

*Seeking to only give money to certian people or groups for various nefarious reasons (including racism).

*embracing Social Justice, CRT, ESG, DEI; (which are all worldly and racist, judges others unfairly, seeks harm towards whites in various ways, but also doesnt trust in God taking care of individual matters)

*Feeling entitled

*Desiring ithers money

*Not working hard to earn your own money

*Seeking free things at others expense

*Pretending to be a victim

*Gaslighting

*Being passive aggressive

* All things LGBT+ & furries/etc

*Seeking to silence Christians

*Seeking Laws to stop freedom of Religion and free speech

*Laws created to prevent people from self defense (multiple issues).

*Systems to brainwash children, teens and college age people into falsehood, God hating info, teaching perversions if various kinds.

*Hatred of Christians

*Hatred of righteousness

*Haters of God

*Harming people in any and varied ways who dont believe and think like you

*Using reeducation methods to brainwash people to bully and force them to believe and comply with 1 view; like the Nazis.

*Bullying people or someone

*Cohersing people or someone

*Abusing and mistreating infants/babies/children

*Abusing and mistreating women

*Abusing and mistreating pregnant women

*Abusing and mistreating parents

*Abusing and mistreating neigbors/others

*Abusing and mistreating elderly

*Abortion & duping, decieving or forcing women to murder their babies

*Euthinasia, and forcing families to sign agreements to murder their family member or choosing to do it so the family member saves money, saves estate money for themselves, or to gain their will contents faster.

*Torture

*Murder

*Worldly dancing

*Behaving provocatively

*Seducing someone

* Plotting and planning to get someone to have sex with you

*Rape

*Adultery

*Prostitution, sexual videos, only fans etc

*Immodesty behavior and clothes

*Drinking to get drunk

*Going to clubs or bars to get drunk