{"id":9484,"date":"2025-11-11T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:20:28","slug":"1-john-program-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=9484","title":{"rendered":"1 John (Program #18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>1 John (Program #18) &#8211; The World and the Things in the World<\/p>\n<p>One of the interesting words in the original language of the New Testament is cosmos. This Greek word is normally translated in the Bible as &#8220;world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In John 3:16 &#8220;<em>For God so loved the world (cosmos) that He gave His only begotten Son..&#8221; <\/em>to save it.\u00a0 Yet in John&#8217;s epistle we are told not to love the cosmos, because it&#8217;s impossible for us to both love the world and love God the Father at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that we as believers need to flee and any attachment of the world is that the world is a mask for God&#8217;s enemy, Satan.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"1 John (Program #18)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-11-11T06:20:28-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"1 John (Program #18) - The World and the Things in the World\r\n\r\nOne of the interesting words in the original language of the New Testament is cosmos. 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