What Does Jesus Say About Hate?
Hate The World?
Dave Riddle • 05/22/2022
Key Passage: John 15:18-16:4
The “World” Hates Jesus
John 7:7 (CSB): The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it—that its works are evil.
Compare to John 15:18-19
A message for those of us who don’t want to be hated.
James 4:4 - Friend of the world = enemy of God
A message for those of us who enjoy looking for a fight
Romans 12:18 - as much as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
We need to live in the tension between these two passages.
Expect Persecution
John 15:20
Matthew 5:10
Persecution is a blessing!
Matthew 5:11-12
Rejoice!
A blessed inheritance
Hating Jesus = Hating God
John 15:21-24
Jesus makes a claim of divinity.
John 10:22-38
Why did they hate Jesus? For no reason.
John 15:25
Jesus sends help!
John 15:26-27
The Holy Spirit
More on this next week.
“Fall away”
John 16:1-2
Fall away, stumble, be trapped
skandalizō - to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall. to offend
Outcasts
John 16:1-2
Outcasts: put out of your religious community, academic community, social community.
Did it happen? Yes.
Acts 26:9-11 - Paul’s testimony.
Why do they do this?
Because they don’t know Jesus or the Father
John 16:3-4
Jesus doesn’t want his followers to be caught off guard.