JOHN 15 THE WORLD HATES THE LORD

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March 23

JOHN 15
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.’26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
– John 15:23-27

JOHN 15 THE WORLD HATES THE LORD
A poem by ILMA inspired by these verses
Anyone who loves the things of this world
Will surely not understand the ways of the Lord
The world loves all that is pleasurable and comfortable
The righteous bears their suffering and adversities
If you love the Lord, the world will surely hate you
Endure the trials for your Savior will never leave you.

Jesus tells his disciple another warning. They have to be prepared that they will also be hated by the world. He was giving them a picture of the things that they will suffer from after he leaves them. Jesus reiterates his promise of the Helper who will reassure and comfort them. Everything that he came here on earth for was to do his Father’s work.
When Jesus declared “They hated me without a cause”, he was quoting David’s lament in Psalm 69:4 when David was overwhelmed by his adversaries. He was unjustly being chased by many enemies constantly. David mentioned in this psalm that “those who hate him are more than the hairs of my head.” He must have expressed his intense distress from wrongful accusation from his enemies. This psalm was a foreshadowing of the same predicament that Jesus experienced when he is wrongfully accused by the Jewish leaders.
As Christians, we can learn to expect hatred from the ungodly and unbelieving. We will surely be loathed by those who do not know the Lord. So, let us lean on the Helper.

REFLECTION
• Share some ways that the world hates those who believe in Christ?