The spirit of this World

Ephesians 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 

Before we were quickened, when we were still separated from God being dead in our trespasses and sins, we walked after the flesh. Wherein in time past refers to the time in our life when we were lost and undone, without Christ in this old sinful world. As a lost unregenerate man it was natural to follow the desires and yearnings of the flesh. This is described as walking according to the course of this world. Here is a sample of that walk: 1 Peter 4:3  For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. Therein are the ways of the world that lieth in wickedness. And a whole lot more sins can be added to that list! 1John 5:19 says,  "And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness." This world is dominated by evil and has been cursed since the fall. This world we live in is evil and anti-God. Jesus came to change that and one day will! Gal 1:4  Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: It is God's ultimate plan to deliver us from this sinful, evil world and the effects of it. Now for a Christian to desire to be apart of this world doesn't make a lick of sense. God wants to deliver us from the curse of this world and yet some Christians want to yoke up with the world, act like the world, dress like the world and love the things of this world!! Help us! God has so much better for! Yet, God says in 1 John 2:15  "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." As God's children we are to be separate from the world! Why? The reason is simply this: this world is run according to the prince of the power of the air.  Satan is the god of this world! Satan is the prince of this world! 2 Corinthians 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. And over in John 14:30  Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.  Did you hear that? The prince of this world; Satan has nothing to do with Jesus. So if he has nothing to do with Jesus, then we as Jesus people ought not have anything to do with this world! This world has the spirit of rebellion and of antichrist. We should not rub shoulders with the enemies of God. It is the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Though we are in the world let us not be of the world. Our relationship to the children of disobedience should be that of a witness or ambassador to them and not a fellow partaker of the things of an evil world. Let us not let the spirit of this world which is evil influence us. Yes, we must live in the world to reach the lost, but we ought not to live like the world!! Amen!