John 14-18; James 1:27

If you have time, read John 14-17, Annie. It’s all Jesus talking, and it’s what He tells His disciples between the last supper and when He was betrayed — basically His last words with them. Look at what He says about the world — that word is in there about 39 times in those 4 chapters. He’s really warning them about the world — that there is to be a difference between them and it. The world can’t receive Him. The world will hate you. He has overcome the world. They are not of the world. He is not praying for the world. He is sending them into the world.

James says that one of the two parts of pure religion is “to keep oneself unstained from the world.” So, what IS the world?