Shepherd to Sheep
In today’s text Jesus warns His disciples that they will be hated by the world. Why would the world hate Jesus or His disciples? It all comes down to the issue of sin. Accuse someone of sin and they may very well hate you. Jesus’ message and mission was to convict the world of sin that they might repent and seek the forgiveness of the Savior. Refusing to admit your sin leads to rejecting the Savior.
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. “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. “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. “But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. “He who hates Me hates My Father also. “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. “But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ “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. “And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.”

John 15:18-27, NKJV.

Pastor Mike