I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For Yourselves And Everyone Else… All Around The World. As Troublesome As The World Seems Right Now, Tho… IT IS OUR WORLD! The Only Place In The Universe – That We Know Of – Which Sustains Our Corporeal Temples. Thus, Let Us Not Spend Another Year Allowing The Evil And Darkness In This World – To Rule, Regulate, Or Dominate Our Lives, Livelihoods, And Earthly Resources… To Our Detriment. But For The Evolution Of Individuals And The Collective… Let Us Activate In This Moment… The Divine Love And Light Power Of The Living God Within Us – Our “Mighty I AM Presence”; And Let THIS… Be The Year… That The Family Of Light On This Earth… Stand Up In Collective Power All Around The World; And Say To The Darkness And Evil That Seek Our Destruction… “NOPE…Not This Year!”… And Stand On It!!! Amen… 
Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life… 
And Y’all Be Love… 
“There is a wicked one that is continually warring against souls, and particularly against the disciples: but those that are well taught in Christ’s school can handle their arms and vanquish the evil one; and those that can vanquish him, may be called to vanquish the world too, which is so great an instrument for the devil. Upon the account of their strength, discovered in this their achievement: Because you are strong, and you have overcome the wicked one, 1 John 2:14. Young men are wont to glory in their strength; it will be the glory of youthful persons to be strong in Christ and in his grace; it will be their glory, and it will try their strength to overcome the devil; if they be not too hard for the devil, he will be too hard for them.
Let vigorous Christians show their strength in conquering the world; and the same strength must be exerted in overcoming the world as is employed in overcoming the devil. Because of their acquaintance with the word of God: And the word of God abides in you, 1 John 2:14. The word of God must abide in the adult disciples; it is the nutriment and supply of strength to them; it is the weapon by which they overcome the wicked one; the sword of the Spirit, whereby they quench his fiery darts. And those in whom the word of God dwells are well furnished for the conquest of the world.
We have the dehortation or dissuasion thus prefaced and introduced, a caution fundamental to vital practical religion: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, 1 John 2:15. Be crucified to the world, be mortified to the things, to the affairs and enticements of it.” The several degrees of Christians should unite in this, in being dead to the world. Were they thus united, they would soon unite upon other accounts: their love should be reserved for God; throw it not away upon the world.
Now here we see the reasons of this dissuasion and caution. They are several, and had need to be so; it is hard to dispute or dissuade disciples themselves from the love of the world. These reasons are taken: 1, From the inconsistency of this love with the love of God. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 1 John 2:15. The heart of man is narrow, and cannot contain both loves. The world draws down the heart from God; and so the more the love of the world prevails, the more the love of God dwindles and decays.
2, From the prohibition of worldly love or lust; it is not ordained of God. It is not of the Father, but is of the world, 1 John 2:16. This love or lust is not appointed of God (he calls us from it), but it intrudes itself from the world; the world is a usurper of our affection. Now here we have the due consideration and notion of the world, according to which it is to be crucified and renounced. The world, physically considered, is good, and is to be admired as the work of God and a glass in which his perfections shine; but it is to be considered in its relation to us now in our corrupted state, and as it works upon our weakness and instigates and inflames our vile affections. There is great affinity and alliance between this world and the flesh, and this world intrudes and encroaches upon the flesh, and thereby makes a party against God.
The things of the world, therefore, are distinguished into three classes, according to the three predominant inclinations of depraved nature; as, (1) There is the lust of the flesh. The flesh here, being distinguished from the eyes and the life, imports the body. The lust of the flesh is, subjectively, the humour and appetite of indulging fleshly pleasures; and, objectively, all those things that excite and inflame the pleasures of the flesh. This lust is usually called luxury. (2) There is the lust of the eyes. The eyes are delighted with treasures; riches and rich possessions are craved by an extravagant eye; this is the lust of covetousness. (3) There is the pride of life. A vain mind craves all the grandeur, equipage, and pomp of a vain-glorious life; this is ambition, and thirst after honour and applause. This is, in part, the disease of the ear; it must be flattered with admiration and praise.
The objects of these appetites must be abandoned and renounced; as they engage and engross the affection and desire, they are not of the Father, but of the world, 1 John 2:16. The Father disallows them, and the world should keep them to itself. The lust or appetite to these things must be mortified and subdued; and so the indulging of it is not appointed by the Father, but is insinuated by the ensnaring world.
From the vain and vanishing state of earthly things and the enjoyment of them. And the world passes away, and the lust thereof, 1 John 2:17. The things of the world are fading and dying apace. The lust itself and the pleasure of it wither and decay; desire itself will ere long fail and cease, Ecclesiastes 12:5. And what has become of all the pomp and pleasure of all those who now lie mouldering in the grave? From the immortality of the divine lover, the lover of God: But he that doeth the will of God, which must be the character of the lover of God, in opposition to this lover of the world, abides forever, 1 John 2:17. The object of his love in opposition to the world that passes away, abides for ever; his sacred passion or affection, in opposition to the lust that passeth away, abides for ever; love shall never fail; and he himself is an heir of immortality and endless life, and shall in time, be translated thither.
From the whole of these verses we should observe the purity and spirituality of the apostolical doctrine. The animal life must be subjected to the divine; the body with its affections should be swayed by religion, or the victorious love of God.
1 John 2:18. Here is, (1) A moral prognostication of the time; the end is coming: Little children, it is the last time, 1 John 2:18. Some may suppose that the apostle here addresses the first rank of Christians again; the juniors are most apt to be seduced, and therefore, “Little children, you that are young in religion, take heed to yourselves that you be not corrupted.” But it may be, as elsewhere, a universal appellation, introductive of an alarm to all Christians: “Little children, it is the last time; our Jewish polity in church and state is hastening to an end; the Mosaic institution and discipline are just upon vanishing away; Daniel’s weeks are now expiring; the destruction of the Hebrew city and sanctuary is approaching, the end whereof must be with a flood, and to the end of the war desolations are determined”, Daniel 9:26. It is meet that the disciples should be warned of the haste and end of time, and apprised as much as may be of the prophetic periods of time.
The sign of this last time. Even now there are many antichrists, 1 John 2:18, many that oppose the person, doctrine, and kingdom of Christ. It is a mysterious portion of providence that antichrists should be permitted; but, when they have come, it is good and safe that the disciples should be informed of them; ministers should be watchmen to the house of Israel.
Now it should be no great offence nor prejudice to the disciples that there are such antichrists: (1) One great one has been foretold. As you have heard that antichrist shall come, 1 John 2:18. The generality of the church have been informed by divine revelation that there must be a long and fatal adversary to Christ and his church, 2 Thessalonians 2:8-10. No wonder then that there are many harbingers and forerunners of the great one. Even now there are many antichrists, the mystery of iniquity already worketh. (2) They were foretold also as the sign of this last time. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect, Matthew 24:24. And these were the forerunners of the dissolution of the Jewish state, nation, and religion: Whereby we know it is the last time, 1 John 2:18. Let the prediction that we see where there has been of seducers arising in the Christian world fortify us against their seduction!”
Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible: 1 John Chapter 2 verses 14 to 18 , by Matthew Henry, 1706
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