Love not the world - by faith

<p> </p> <p> Now our world is just a mere ‘Global Village’. A somewhat fragmented world is becoming...through media technologies like the internet enabling such things as transnational commerce on a level never before achieved ...through the migration and interconnection of nationalities and the sharing of the thoughts and ideas of multiple cultures...through the vision for the future to see a single globalized marketplace.....these are the hallmarks of a global village.....Though it is seen as something quite new and modern....I think the world has had something similar to this is the past...but without the technology</p> <p>The Tower of Babel. After the flood God had commanded Noah and his family to fill the earth. Eventually the inhabitants of the earth venture out together....all speaking the same language.....found a nice spot to live and said...."Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." (Gen 11:4) Instead of filling the earth, as God wanted, they wanted to be in one place. They wanted to build a tower to reach to the heavens to “make a name” for themselves. The Tower of Babel was a symbol of human pride and rebellion towards the will of God. 1 John 2:15 (First part says) Do not love the world, nor the things in the world.....</p> <p>Let’s remember - God ordained that the earth should be cared for Genesis 2: 15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. I want to distinguish between the world that we are to care for and the world we must not love The Bible describes the world in four basic ways..</p> <p>1 The earth. Just the earth created by God. cultivate it and keep it. 2 Sometimes the world can mean the current age. You could say we live in a different world to the stone age or bronze age, middle ages, dark ages....we live in a different age....a different world 3 The population of the wo