Glorying in the Cross not freewill of man ! 2
See the word world many times in the NT scriptures means false religion or the religious ways of the world, like here Col 2:8,20
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men,
after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Wherefore
if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
That's what Paul means by being crucified to the world by the Cross Gal 6:14
Then we have statements by Christ Himself saying to His disciples Jn 15:18-20
18 If the
world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of
the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore
the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
The world in this passage is not the irreligious world of pimps, prostitutes, drug attacks, fornicators, thieves and drunkards and so on, but the world here is satanic inspired religion, like as in this case the very religious Pharisees of apostate Judaism !
The world here again are those in the synagogues Jn 16:1-2
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
This is the hate from the world that Christ mostly encountered, and what His disciples would encounter, and Jesus calls this the world !
Lets recall saul, later Paul and recall the hate he had against True Christianity Acts 9:1-2
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Then he was of the World, but not in a irreligious way, for remember he stated Phil 3:4-6
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
and then Gal 1:13-14
13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time
past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure
I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
14 And
profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
See, he was not a fornicator, a drunkard and robber, but a exceedingly zealous religious man, probably with the most upright character and morals the flesh can mustard up ! Yet all that was nothing but being part of the world against Christ, and that's mainly the world that Paul is speaking of in Gal 6:14, that not his freewill decision to accept Christ delivered him from it, but the Cross of Christ did, and not only Paul, but it [THE CROSS] delivers all for whom He died from the World, and is every True Christians Boast, and not their so called freewill ! Either the Cross is ones boast or ones freewill, sorry but it cannot be both !