"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 cloke 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 lesson Jesus warned His Apostles of the intense hatred the ruling Jews held toward Him and all those who believed in Him.
Although, we today, don't face that same kind of hatred, there are still the angels of Satan who are hard at work to destroy everything Jesus stood for then, and everything His true Church stands for today.
It is the obligation of every born again child of God to put the pure gospel of Jesus Christ first and foremost in our everyday lives so as to overcome the power of Satan. We can do this through the awesome power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ which He sent to us for that purpose.~
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