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To most people, this present world seems bright and life seems good, to a great extent.

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In other words, if a Christian says to an unbeliever, “You don’t have to live for, nor love this dark world of sin, because there’s a better and brighter world to come!”, that person probably doesn’t know what that Christian is talking about.

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The problem is, that unsaved person has lived his or her entire life in this world of sin and selfishness, and has become jaded to the evil which surrounds us, and oozes out of every pore and crevice of this world of selfish lusts and desires!

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And let’s face reality here! The fact is, our selfish lives seem normal to us! We don’t know anything else! We’ve never lived in any other world but this one. And we wake up every morning, and the sun is brightly shining, we’re refreshed from a good night’s sleep, looking forward to the prospects of the new day before us!

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And frankly, when someone tells us that there’s a better world to come, it makes us nervous at the thought of giving up all our self-absorbed ways. We think about the selfless life of Jesus, and we think, “Man, I really don’t want to become like Him!”

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But there’s another reason why this world seems perfectly acceptable to us.

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And that reason is that we’ve are all been held captive under the delusive power of the spirit of antichrist, the worldly spirit of this present dark world-system…“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:” Ephesians 2:2 

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Yes, Satan, “the god of this world” enlightens our eyes with his antichrist spirit, so that we actually love our selfish lives in this world, and makes us actually nauseated at the very thought of living selflessly for Jesus! And even though this world is suffering the horrible consequences of sin and selfishness, Satan’s indwelling spirit causes us to be oblivious to all the sadness, sickness, and suffering of others!

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Well, the Good News is, that God can give us a brand new Spirit of love, joy and peace, and contentment, beyond our wildest dreams. And when filled with that Spirit, we no longer live for, nor love this present, tragic world. Yes, this world will begin to appear dark, as our eyes begin to see the brightness of the everlasting world to come!.

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It’s like that old song sings, “Turn your eyes upon Jesus! Look full in His wonderful face! And the things of this world will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace!”