The man who does the will of God abides forever. He knows something: the world shall pass away. It is important to know this, for it means that the lusts of the world will pass away as well.
This man resists Satan and his demons, he controls the urges of his flesh, he refuses to compromise his beliefs and faith with the world and he is vigilant of the spiritual warfare he is called for in resisting Satan and his demons.
This man has learned that the important spiritual warfare for his relationship to, and obedience of, Jesus Christ takes place in his mind.
The world and its lusts pass away when he dies. Every man leaves behind the world and all he has secured. He loses all of the world he has accumulated and enjoyed. He will not be able to take a single pleasure or possession with him when he leaves the world. Imagine! He cannot take a single thing. The world will have passed away from him; time will be no more—not for him, not for his pleasures or possessions.
The world and its lusts will pass away at the end of the world. The world is to be destroyed by fire and a new heaven and a new earth will be created by God where only righteousness will dwell.
Knowing all this is the reason the wise man turns away from the world and turns to God. He wants God and the life God offers, the life that is both abundant and eternal. Therefore, he seeks after the will of God, to do what God commands so that he may live with God forever.
This man knows there will always be spiritual warfare in this life...but he trusts that the Lord will see him thru.
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