James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Christian, you are called to be against the world for the glory of God and the good of the world. The only way to call people out of the world and into glory is to call it out for what it is while joyfully standing up in high contrast against it.
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 desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
You do not love the world by loving what the world loves. God so loved the world that He sent His Son into it to live and die for it. He didn’t sit back and love it from a distance. He drew near and became flesh for the sake of dramatically changing it.
John 3:19
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
Jesus drew near at great cost to Himself in order to reveal the darkness to itself and shine a light of hope from another world.
John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
For the love of God and the good of the world, be against it.
Contra mundum propter mundum.
(against the world on account of the world)
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