Worldliness  

 What is it?

To belong to the world inwardly or outwardly or both. We may do so consciously or unconsciously. Both cases are unacceptable to God and to the christian life. It is not always easy to draw clear lines

on this issue but God demands separation from the world-1 John 2 :15-17.

Why does God demand this?  Because it is Satan's world and his system, his life, behaviour, etc. If a

believer lives and behaves according to the world's ways and life, he or she identifies with this Satanic system.

Believers are  in the world but do not belong to this world-John 17:14-17.

When a person is saved, God gives him or her a new nature that wants to grow and be like Christ. At the same time the Old Nature (the Old Man) that belongs to the world will always desire the things of

the world. We need to crucify that character and deny its desires daily. Believers may be sincere in wanting to live this New Life but do not always manage to overcome the desires of the Old life and its ways.

How do we recognize the ways of the world in a person? 
Outwardly- Appearance, places we go to, things we do, e.g. provocative appearance. etc.-Gen.3:21.

Inwardly-Desires, thoughts, pride,arrogance, double mindedness, vanity, and many more-Eph.4:17.

Paul the Apostle tells us how we should talk/ behave in Col.4:6.