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Will You Be Right or Will You Be Clean
📖 1 John 2:15–17 • Are you drifting? John reveals three stages that let the world into your heart — and most Christians are already in stage two.
⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • March 5, 2026.
Most preaching on "love not the world" starts at stage two — the point where damage is already done. In this exposition of 1 John 2:15–17, Pastor Fortunato traces the full three-stage progression: friendship (James 4:4), love (1 John 2:15), and conformity (Romans 12:2). By the time John says "love not the world," the world may already be in your house.
The sermon then maps every…
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