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Michael Eaton believes that John’s epistles were written to counteract false teachers who were influencing Christians in the church. An exposition of these epistles could not be timelier, as often people who come to Christ today have little or no church background—they can be easily influenced by false teaching. John showed in his letters that the most secure way to avoid being deceived was the...

into wickedness. ‘Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling,’ said Jesus (Matt. 18:7). It is rebelliousness, spiritual ignorance (1 John 3:1; John 1:10), combined with hostility towards God (see James 4:4). Behind it is the grip of Satan (see 1 John 5:19). ‘Worldliness’ is the inclination to be drawn into the ways of the people around us who do not know God. ‘The things of the world’ are the ways in which the world’s magnetism operates. To refuse to love the world means a decisive rejection
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