John write to children, fathers, young men, for they have overcome the evil one, for their sins have been forgiven on account of his name. For they have known him who is from the beginning.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
At this point John digresses. First he speaks to the church. His 'children', 'fathers','young men', reflect three stages in spiritual growth or maturity.
From the church he turns to the world, which Christians must not love. John characterizes the world as humanity at loggerheads with God, self-centered, proud, acquisitive: the whole evil system. To love the world is to accept its values and attitudes. But this world is destined to end.
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Why?
Compared with the world and our God, our God is the best and powerful than any others on the world when we know Him.
Compare to the 'Gnosticism' proclaimed the flesh and spirit, but John mentioned things of God and the world. Real spiritual matter is not mysterious things or knowledge, but live out the life in God's word.
How?
What should I give up on the world in me? Live out the life of God.
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