The Lord Jesus promised us that the meek would inherit the earth. The prophets foretold this as well, saying that the earth would be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the water covers the sea. They will not hurt or destroy in all the holy mountain. The apostle tells us that the world to come, the one we are in the process of inheriting, is subjected to man in Christ, and not to angels. So we are in the process of inheriting the world.
But the Bible also teaches that worldliness is a great sin—it is infidelity to Christ. We are commanded to obtain the world and at the same time to shun it. What does this mean?
It cannot be understood apart from the progress of the war we are in. We will obtain the world, but not in its current condition. The world as it is now is a world filled with corruption. We are not to love this world, meaning the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. At the same time, we are to long for a world that honors Christ with a feast of fat things, of wine on the lees, fat things filled with marrow, and wine on the lees well refined.
This kind of glorious feast has nothing whatever in common with the komoi of unbelievers. Their kind of reveling, carousing, partying, or moshing is offered to Dionysus, Paul explicitly indicates, and not to Christ. It does not belong to the day, but rather to the night.
Do you want to inherit the world? Then you must do what all faithful Christians do—you must forsake it, turning from it with contempt. Repent of trying to split the difference. You cannot cross a lake partly in a boat and partly in a car. Christ demands everything be surrendered in death. And then He gives it all back in resurrection. What a Savior!