What's wrong with the world

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1John 2:15-1715 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. 

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1John 2:15-1716 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. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

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What’s Wrong with the World?• People want to be like God

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Genesis 3:1-51 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

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Genesis 3:1-52 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

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Genesis 3:1-54 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

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Isaiah 14:12-1412 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! 

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Isaiah 14:12-1413 For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; 

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Isaiah 14:12-1414 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’

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"Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God."    

~~Martin Luther, "Disputation Against Scholastic Theology"

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What’s Wrong with the World?• People want to be like God• People want to define truth

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John 18:37,3837 Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”

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John 18:37,3838 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.

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John 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

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Psalm 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth.

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Psalm 119:151You are near, O Lord, and all Your commandments are truth.

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Psalm 119:160The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.

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What’s Wrong with the World?• People want to be like God• People want to define truth• People want to direct their own path

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Jeremiah 10:23O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.

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Proverbs 3:5Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

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Psalm 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

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What’s Wrong with the World?• People want to be like God• People want to define truth• People want to direct their own path• People want no consequences for 

their actions

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Isaiah 59:1,21 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.  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.

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Ezekiel 18:20The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

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Galatians 6:7,87 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

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What’s Wrong with the World?• People want to be like God• People want to define truth• People want to direct their own path• People want no consequences for 

their actions