All through the New Testament, we may see two great systems. There is one great system that belongs to the Father, and another that belongs to Satan. God made paradise. Man sinned and got out of it. Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and built a city, and Satan’s world began. Then God sent His Son, and they would not have Him, and thus it was a judged world. If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you. You may be tempted by it and have to overcome it, but if you love it, the love of the Father is not in you, because He has got a system of His own, and you are going to the other system. “Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
The Father is the head and source and blessedness of a great system to which the world is entirely opposed, and therefore when the Son came into the world, the world rejected Him, and this has put the world in perfect antagonism to the Father. The flesh is against the Spirit, the world is against the Father, and the devil is against the Son. God’s system is for His glory and the honor of His Son; Satan’s system is to replace God and the Son with himself.
J. N. Darby (adapted)