Now we have an enemy, and John has talked about this enemy before: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world (1 John 2:15). There is in the world that which is of the flesh, that which is of the world, and that which is of the Devil. As Wordsworth put it, “The world is too much with us.” As believers we are in the world, but we are not to be of it. This world that you and I are in is a big, mean, bad world. We can be caught up in it very easily—we can be trapped by it. There
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