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John.2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. 2:17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

The apostle John speak a profound truth in complete harmony with his letter in First John. What is that truth? It is a truth of why some did not know God, or his Son Christ Jesus, why they could not hear the words and understand the Spirit words of John, or Christ for that matter. It was a truth that only effects those in Christ, but have no effect upon the flesh.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

It is a truth that is a demarcation between light and darkness, it is a truth that rejects the spirit of the flesh found in all the world and the things of the world. Moreover, it is why John tells us to test the spirit. is it from God, or is it from the world? The entire world is built, controlled, managed, and kept going by the works of flesh found in each one of us. Yes, a world built on rebellion against God's Holy Spirit causing corruption and death to the world God created from his Spirit. God removed his world from ours when Satan caused sin to enter into the world through a lie, a lie that many during John's time were embracing again as coming from God's Spirit.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

The flesh cannot test the spirits they can test the flesh with words from their bibles, but not the spirit. The flesh can only impute motives to others, but it cannot know the spirit within them by God's Spirit rather it be from God or man flesh under sin? That spirit of the flesh can only fool those not in Christ, Flesh listen to flesh because it words our the world that the apostle John speaks to here. There are no words that from the flesh that can change the spirit of flesh into the Spirit of God no matter how good the arguments it could come up with from the bible, no matter how many scriptures the flesh quoted, flesh produce flesh of no value at all in the Spirit of God that can only produce fruits of the Spirit not of the darkness of this world.

Hebrews 5:12 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

1 John 4:1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

The apostles John makes the point time and time again in his letter we have the truth, why? Because we have the Spirit of God that is in God's holy temple Christ Jesus, and because of that those anointed in Christ would know without doubt if the spirit came from the flesh or from God, the two are diametrically opposed, rejecting each other to the point that those of the flesh could not even hear the words coming from the Spirit of God.

1 John 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

The flesh would simply translated true Spirit food into the flesh polluting it to uphold the spirit of the world they lived in. They would steal every precious Spirit truth filling it with yeast of the corrupt flesh boasting that they had the truth and attack those of the Spirit of God's planting. There could be no dwelling between the two, it wasn't John's idea, or any one of the apostles idea it was a truth that must stand even if they did not know why? God is not this world or the spirit in this world he own none of it, not one thing in it.

James.4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you 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.

God's children where birth out of it, its not their world, their world was from above the Spirit that feed them was from above, it was not from below. Those twisting the scriptures where loving the world, they were of this world because the spoke the language of the world flesh. Then John makes clear the only way to conquer this world in opposition to all that is in God, is by his Spirit, placed in the Son of God there is no other way. Not by scriptural knowledge, repeating words from our bibles, or saying God's name over and over again, or even Christ name over and over again. No! God's Spirit cannot be conquered by this world and its corruption, it cannot stand in the God's word Christ Jesus. It has no power over the Spirit it can only have power over the flesh, it can only blind the flesh. But none of the worries or frets of this world effects God at all. Subsequently, many would fall away from the righteousness found in Christ because they were never his, they go out because they are not of the Spirit separating them from this world, they must seek the level of this world exposing them as liars, like the Father of this world.

Jude 1:19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

Jude 1:20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.{Or, "know what is true." Or, "know all things."}

1 John 2:27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

They have been defeated by Christ long ago, what flesh calls new is not new at all it is the same old spirit of the world seeking new knowledge to feed the flesh so it can go on supporting its system of things, religion, government, and commerce. Those in Christ have been made new not by knowledge but the power of Christ incorruptible life. A life free of this world, a life free of sin and the power of sin death, a life that conquered this world that has been freely given us provide we walk in the Spirit from which it was created.

1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

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