Prepare to be hated

Prepare to be hated• A reminder of His experience • The reasons for hatred • The ruling by the Lord

Persecution Promised

• A reminder of His experience • John15:18-25• (John 8:58-59., John 10:30-32, 2 Timothy 3:12)

• John 15:18. “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. (NIV)

• Luke 4: 24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

• 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was

shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet

Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.

27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not

one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”28 All the people in the synagogue

were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took

him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.

30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way. (NIV)

• A reminder of His experience • The reasons for hatred verses 19-21

• The reasons for hatred• Chosen from the world• Called to discipleship• Condemned through spiritual ignorance

• The reasons for hatred verses 19-21

• Chosen from the world verse 19 • 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love

you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. (NIV)

• Colossians 1:13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, (NIV)

• Chosen from the world • Called to discipleship verse 20

• Called to discipleship verse 20

• Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

• Mark 313 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him.

• 14 He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send

them out to preach (NIV)

• Chosen from the world verse 19 • Called to discipleship verse 20• Condemned through spiritual ignorance 21

• They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. (NIV)

• John 8:19Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” (NIV)

• A reminder of His experience • The reasons for hatred• The ruling by the Lord verse 22

• The ruling by the Lord verse 22

• Judged by the utterance of Jesus’ teaching verse 22-23

• If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

• 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. (NIV)

• John 5:46-4746 If you believed Moses, you would believe

me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since you do not

believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what

I say?” (NIV)

• Condemned by the uniqueness of Jesus’ miracles verse 24

• If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. (NIV)

• Matthew 20 Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.

• 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the

miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre

and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and

ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and

Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. (NIV)

• Damned by the unrealistic nature of their hatred verse 25

• But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason. (NIV)

Preparation Prescribed

• Fixed to the Lord • Fruitful for God • Firmed up by the Holy Spirit

• Fixed to the Lord 15:1-7 (Col. 1:18, Ephesians 5:23)

• Special relationship demanded • verse 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If

you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. (NIV)

• Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy (NIV)

• Sustenance required verse 3-4a

• 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

• 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. (NIV)

• Support provided by the Father verse 1-2

• “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

• 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while

every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will

be even more fruitful. (NIV)

• Fixed to the Lord • Fruitful for God (15:9-17)

• Purpose of our call verse 16

• You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. (NIV)

• Matthew 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (NIV)

• Prepared by discipleship verse 15-16 • 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant

does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so

that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last – and so that

whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. (NIV)

• Mark 3:13-14 • Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to

him those he wanted, and they came to him. 14 He appointed twelve that they might be with him and

that he might send them out to preach (NIV)

• Parameters of fruitfulness verse 9-14, 27 • ‘As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now

remain in my love.

• 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have

kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this

so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My

command is this: love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has

no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my

friends if you do what I command. (NIV)

• 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning. (NIV)

• Fixed to the Lord • Fruitful for God • Firmed up by the Holy Spirit (15:26-27,16:7-

14)

• Firmed up by the Holy Spirit (15:26-27,16:7-14)

• Advocacy of the Holy Spirit verse 26

• When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father – the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father – he will testify about me. (NIV)

• Aim of Jesus in the ascension 16:5-7

• 5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, “Where are you going?”

• 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things.

7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away.

Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I

will send him to you. (NIV)

• Adjudication of the world verse 8-11

• 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:

• 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about

righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can

see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of

this world now stands condemned. (NIV)

• Affirmation of Jesus 12-14

• ‘I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.

• 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the

truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears,

and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it

is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. (NIV)

• Fixed to the Lord • Fruitful for God • Firmed up by the Holy Spirit • Founded on the Father through prayer

(16:23-24,27-28)

• Founded on the Father through prayer (16:23-24,27-28)

• Beloved of the Father 16:27-28

27 No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

• 28 I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am

leaving the world and going back to the Father.’ (NIV)

• Basis of prayer 16:23

• In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. (NIV)

• Beseech in prayer 16:24

• Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. (NIV)

Peace Predicted

• (16:33). ‘I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.’

(NIV)

• Purpose of instruction – Peace ‘I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.

• Persecuted by the world –The reality we live in• In this world you will have trouble. • Prior victory – the basis of our courageBut take heart! I have overcome the world.’