God versus the world

Good morning friends,
Today Jesus warns his disciples that the world will hate them just like it has hated him. They will not fit in because of their calling to follow Jesus. He also says that the world will be guilty of rejecting his word because he showed God's power so clearly but was still rejected. In the midst of that divide between God and the world, Jesus will send the Holy Spirit to the disciples. The Spirit will continue to witness to Christ's word, and in the Spirit's power the disciples are called to be witnesses also. That's still our calling, to bear witness to God's amazing love with our words and our actions. It is a challenging calling that can sometimes get us in trouble, but it is also where we find rewarding life.

God bless,
Sam

John 15:18-27

18”If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. 19If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.


22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’


26”When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. 27You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.