Lesson 4563

 (Lesson 4563)(07-31-24) John 15:18-27 

   “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 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. 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. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.” 

 

 In today’s quote, Jesus warned those of us who choose to worship Him, that the world would hate us because it hated Him first. He explained that if one belongs to the world, the world would love that one as its own, but since those of us who have accepted, Jesus Christ do not belong to the world because He has chosen us out of it, the world hates us. Jesus reminded His disciples of His teaching that a servant is never greater than his master, meaning that they would face persecution just as He did. He also explained that those who persecute Him do so because they do not know God. Jesus concluded the lesson by saying that the Holy Spirit, whom He sent from the Father, will testify about Him, and that His disciples must also testify because they had been with Him from the beginning. ~