eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world” (1 John 2:16 niv). Notice that in enlarging upon what is “in the world,” John doesn’t say, “this particular mode of dress, this way of speaking, this music, these possessions.” No, the essence of worldliness is in the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes, and the boasting of what he has and does. “The ‘worldly’ characteristics of which this verse speaks,” writes commentator David Jackman, “are in fact