Lovin tha world. World?

Did you know the Bible gives an example of a dude who was a fellow worker for the Gospel message but loved the world too much and left his ministry?

A guy called Demas worked alongside Paul, Luke, and Timothy (Col4:14, Philemon 1:24) but then left Timothy (2Tim4:10) because he loved the world.

A biblical example of someone who worked alongside disciples of Christ and was one himself, but was tempted by the world and left God to chase after his own sinful desires.

(I will use sex as an example because sex sells) This is the challenge we face as Christians surrounded in a 21st century society where it's ok to watch MA (sometimes even PG) rated movies that are full of pervetedness, fornication and adultery and we 'enjoy' it and call it entertainment. We then call people who believe it to be too strict - 'legalists' - because they don't know how to enjoy entertainment. We have become so immune to it, so 21st century minded instead of Jesus minded that we forget that these things OFFEND God. When we start participating and enjoying the things that offend God we can potentially become enemies of God.

The world thinks us crazy that we make a deal about things like gossip, having a 'good' time (in the sense of sex and booze), and that we abstain from such 'normal' worldly living. Well we have a God who is holy and perfect. We have a God who actually created things like sex and even humour yet by our sinfulness as humans what was originally straight has been made crooked and twisted. Sex is a great thing in the confines of marriage - it's to be enjoyed. But the world tells us otherwise and so thus the temptation exists and so sin entails.

So the big question I am ending this post abruptly with is....who is your God? Who rules over your life?