JOHN 15

The Relation (vs. 18-21)

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet 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 keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
John 15:18-21

1. The world’s hatred for us is because of our relation to

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   .

2. If I

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   like the world, I’ll fit right in with them and they’ll love me.

3. If I’m going to

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   Jesus, I have to walk away from the world and its lifestyle.

4. Some Christians say they’re following Jesus but

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   and pray like they expect Jesus to follow them!

5. Some Christians have never experienced any type of persecution, rejection, or reproach for their Christianity because nobody can

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   they’re a Christian!

Additional references:
Luke 21:17, John 1:10-12, James 4:4, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Romans 12:2, John 13:6, Matthew 7:21, Romans 5:12, John 14:6-7 & 9

The Reason (vs. 22-25)

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
John 15:22-25

1. You don’t have to

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   you’re guilty to be guilty.

2. Even without the gospel, mankind still has the ability to know about God’s existence through

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   itself.

3. Our

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   reveals their darkness.

4. Mankind knows they need God but they don’t want to

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   to Him.

5. There is no reason for the world to hate Jesus except that His very presence reveals the

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   of their sin.

Additional references:
Romans 1:20, John 3:18-21, John 10:30, 1 John 2:23, Ephesians 5:11

The Remedy (vs. 26-27)

“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.”
John 15:26-27

1. As we stand for Christ in a fallen world, we have the

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   to stand with us and help us.

2. Jesus came as a physical being to

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   the gap between men and God.

3. Jesus states that He was

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   by the Father, yet He is in no way less than the Father.

4. If we know Jesus, it becomes our responsibility to share Jesus with the very world that hates us.

5. We have His Spirit in us, so we carry the

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   to bear witness.

Additional references:
Luke 12:11-12, John 16:7, John 14:26, Acts 1:8