Love for the world is always incompatible with love for God.  Chris Brannon speaks on resisting the seduction of a fallen world as we look into 1 John 2:15-17 a little deeper.  The world competes for the love of Christians, but we know that we cannot love both the world and the Father at the same time.  Listen as Chris tells us what it means to not love the world and gives us two extreme views of worldliness.  He also talks about four steps of digression to worldliness and gives us a test that we can give ourselves to see where we are.  Are you following God or the world?  Here are some questions to ask yourself:

• Do your goals drive you forward – to financial security, more friends, successful kids, a certain position at work? Or do they drive you upward – to obeying and glorifying God above all else?
• What gets you out of bed in the morning?
• What dominates your mind and stirs your heart:
  • Discontentment with your life?
  • Longings for earthly pleasures?
• Does outward prosperity appeal to you more than growth in godliness?
• Is your prayer life characterized by heartfelt supplications for God’s will to be done and His Kingdom to come?
• Do you relate to God as if He exists to further your selfish ambitions or are you convinced that you exist to glorify Him?
• Are you essentially trying to live without God?
• Do you covet the esteem and crave the approval of those around you?
• Do you go to great lengths to avoid looking foolish or being rejected for your Christian faith?
• Do you consider present and material results more important than your eternal reward?
• Have you departed from God and adopted idols instead?