1 What ‘being worldly’ means. We can state it in a simple way. It is ‘living as the unbeliever lives’. (This word means anybody who is not a *believer.) Our description of ‘being worldly’ can be limited. It often depends on our own traditions. We think that it means not doing certain things. Or we think that it is not going to certain places.

Evil of being worldly-minded. Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul, under the cloak of a profession of religion. Something the soul will have, which it looks upon as the best thing; in which it has pleasure and confidence above other things.

English Language Learners Definition of worldly. : of or relating to the human world and ordinary life rather than to religious or spiritual matters. : having a lot of practical experience and knowledge about life and the world. See the full definition for worldly in the English Language Learners Dictionary.

04/01/2022 · The dictionary definition of “worldly” is “relating to, or devoted to, the temporal world.” Worldliness, then, is the condition of being concerned with worldly affairs, especially to the neglect of spiritual things.

Instead of being worldly in the ways that are on your list, you are worldly in a thousand other ways, all of them equally bad. The truth is that worldliness is not a matter of things, of doing this, or not doing that. But worldliness is a matter of the attitude of the heart, the attitude of life in thinking and dealing with things.

26/04/2015 · Whether you are worldly or godly is primarily a matter of how you think. In Romans 12:2, Paul tells us how not to be worldly: “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Worldliness at heart is nothing less than idolatry. It is exchanging the truth of God for a lie and worshipping and serving created things rather than the Creator ( Romans 1:25 ). The world was created by God and He said it was good ( Genesis 1:10 ). There is nothing inherently sinful about the material world itself.

10/07/2017 · Worldly believers only want to be godly when it’s convenient—as long as there is no cost or pressure. When it gets lonely on the weekends, they give in and find satisfaction and joy in the same ways the world does.