Read Part one of this series here:
More notes from A.W. Pink's valuable essay: "The Scripture and the World"
3. We profit form the word when we learn that Christ died to deliver us from this present evil world (Galatians 1:4)
Christ "breaks the power of the world over their hearts. HE makes them independent of it that they neither covet it's favors nor fear it's frowns."
As a Christian grows in grace he recognized this and acts accordingly. He seeks yet fuller deliverance from this present evil world and begs God to free him from it completely. That which once charmed him now nauseates.
This is so true - I've seen over the years as I've grown in my relationship with Christ and as I have studied the bible to truly live for Christ out of devotion to Him for His gift of life to me, that the things which I used to "love", covet, crave, live to do, etc., have become nauseating to me. Occasionally I'll feel a little tug toward something like that and then I'll feel this repulsion ... and thankfulness that it no longer captures me.
Do you find the same thing happening as you grow and seek to obey God's word?