Satan uses them to stir up our fleshly desires. Wherever we live unbelievers dominate. We will be surrounded by fleshly attitudes and actions, things and activities that stir up our fleshly desires all of our lives. This is obvious. titusinstitute In Eph.2:1-3, Paul speaks of our former manner of life as unbelievers. “And you who were dead in trespasses and sins he has made alive. In which in time past you lived according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. Among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” Unbelievers “live according to the flesh which is according to the course of this world which is according to the prince of the power of the air.” This is a general statement of the lifestyle of an unbeliever, of their pattern of life, and of their values and life focus. That lifestyle follows the desires of the flesh, which follows the ways of the world, which follows the ways of Satan. In Jn.12:31 and 14:30 Jesus calls Satan the “ruler of this world.” Satan rules unbelievers who develop the evil ways of the world based upon the lies of Satan and the desires of the flesh. Every person born into the world has the desires of the flesh in them and grows up in an environment where the flesh is incited and the lies of Satan are heralded. Satan uses the world of unbelievers to do this. That is behind what John says in 1 Jn. 1 Jn.2:15-17 “Do not love the world nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” John says “Do not love the world or nor the things of the world.” Love means to value something. John is saying that believers are not to value the world, the ways of unbelievers, or the ways of their fleshly desires. John says that if anyone says he is a Christian and yet has a lifestyle of an unbeliever, where his or her pattern of life, his or her values and life focus are worldly, he or she is not a Christian. At times Christians will fall into valuing the world, but the love of the father and what he values is in Christians through the Holy Spirit and that dominates our minds and hearts
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