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The World Hates You, Love One Another Sermons – Grace Evangelical Free Church // Wyoming, MN
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17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another. 18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
INTRODUCTION
I recently got the following text from a pastor friend.
My day yesterday: 8:45: Baptized [my son]. A great joy. 10:15: Here a testimony of someone who came to faith through my preaching when I told the story of Spurgeon’s conversion. A great encouragement. 12:00 – A couple pulls me [aside] and asks to meet immediately. Wife is in [an] unrepentant affair. Her second. A member. I’m at a loss for words. I can’t convince her to stop. Though today she broke it off (we’ll see…) and agreed to meet. 2:00 – I’m flabbergasted by the dear influential family in our church that I love. 3:45 – With [baptized son] eating Buffalo Wilds Wings to celebrate. A great joy. 5:00 – With a young family. Dad most likely has pancreatic cancer. 7:30 – [Baby of a family friend] has a heart attack and has to [be] resuscitated.
I responded by coining the term (probably not), “Pastoral whiplash.”
That’s somewhat akin to what we have in our passage for this morning. It is clear that v.18-25 are meant to be seen in contrast to the previous section (vs.1-17, and especially 12-17). That’s why I included v.17 in the Scripture reading. Jesus moved abruptly from talking about the love and friendship between Him and His followers to the hatred of the world for Him and His followers. In other words, in a sense, Jesus was preparing His followers for the kind of perpetual whiplash inherent to the Christian life in a hostile world.
The big idea of the passage is that wherever Jesus is hated in the world, all who truly follow Him will be hated as well. And the big takeaways from the passage are to (1) follow Jesus in such a way that those who hate Him will also hate us and (2) to love one another in such a way that will protect and heal us from the world’s attacks. Let’s all decide once-and-for-all that suffering for obeying Jesus in the love of the saints is a far better life (not to mention eternal life) than every temporary comfort in disobedience.
IF AND WHEN THE WORLD HATES YOU (18-19)
The logic of this passage is easy to see (I love it when that happens). To make it as clear as possible, I’m going to preach it somewhat out of order. What I mean is, the four main arguments of Jesus are plain, but spread out throughout the passage. I’m going to bring them together so we don’t miss what’s there.
The first main argument is found in vs.18-19 (I’ll come back to v.17 at the end). It is a warning from Jesus to His followers that where He is hated by the world, we will be too. The second is Jesus’ explanation for why that is—because the world ...
17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another. 18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
INTRODUCTION
I recently got the following text from a pastor friend.
My day yesterday: 8:45: Baptized [my son]. A great joy. 10:15: Here a testimony of someone who came to faith through my preaching when I told the story of Spurgeon’s conversion. A great encouragement. 12:00 – A couple pulls me [aside] and asks to meet immediately. Wife is in [an] unrepentant affair. Her second. A member. I’m at a loss for words. I can’t convince her to stop. Though today she broke it off (we’ll see…) and agreed to meet. 2:00 – I’m flabbergasted by the dear influential family in our church that I love. 3:45 – With [baptized son] eating Buffalo Wilds Wings to celebrate. A great joy. 5:00 – With a young family. Dad most likely has pancreatic cancer. 7:30 – [Baby of a family friend] has a heart attack and has to [be] resuscitated.
I responded by coining the term (probably not), “Pastoral whiplash.”
That’s somewhat akin to what we have in our passage for this morning. It is clear that v.18-25 are meant to be seen in contrast to the previous section (vs.1-17, and especially 12-17). That’s why I included v.17 in the Scripture reading. Jesus moved abruptly from talking about the love and friendship between Him and His followers to the hatred of the world for Him and His followers. In other words, in a sense, Jesus was preparing His followers for the kind of perpetual whiplash inherent to the Christian life in a hostile world.
The big idea of the passage is that wherever Jesus is hated in the world, all who truly follow Him will be hated as well. And the big takeaways from the passage are to (1) follow Jesus in such a way that those who hate Him will also hate us and (2) to love one another in such a way that will protect and heal us from the world’s attacks. Let’s all decide once-and-for-all that suffering for obeying Jesus in the love of the saints is a far better life (not to mention eternal life) than every temporary comfort in disobedience.
IF AND WHEN THE WORLD HATES YOU (18-19)
The logic of this passage is easy to see (I love it when that happens). To make it as clear as possible, I’m going to preach it somewhat out of order. What I mean is, the four main arguments of Jesus are plain, but spread out throughout the passage. I’m going to bring them together so we don’t miss what’s there.
The first main argument is found in vs.18-19 (I’ll come back to v.17 at the end). It is a warning from Jesus to His followers that where He is hated by the world, we will be too. The second is Jesus’ explanation for why that is—because the world ...
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