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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "IF THE WORLD HATES YOU."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Jesus had earlier said to His disciples, "In this world you will have tribulation." <a onClick="return mV('Jhn',16,33);">Jn. 16:33</a>.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Satan is in control of the world, he is called the god of this age, and Satan hates God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Because you are of God, Satan hates you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He hates righteousness, and all that is good.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Satan desires to destroy God; as God's child, he would like to destroy you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Why would the world hate you?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Because you are not of this world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. There is something perverse in human nature that seeks to pick on or bully the one who is different.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. We see it manifested in little children on the playground.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. If there is someone who is timid or weak or a misfit, the children will often pick on them unmercifully.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. I can remember children calling others "four eyes" who had to wear glasses.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. You are a misfit in this world, at least I hope you are.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. If you are comfortable or feel at home in this world, I think that you should carefully examine your relationship with the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. Jesus said, "I am not of this world," and later as He was praying He said, "I have given them Your word and the world hated them because they are not of this world even as I am not of this world."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">h. We read of Lot, whose righteous spirit was vexed by the way people were living around him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Because they identify you with Jesus, and they hate Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Why did they hate Jesus?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Because of the things that He said to them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He exposed their hypocrisy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He took the mask off of their sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. He condemned the things they loved, the earthly, sensual things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. He declared the path to true happiness was through self-denial, not self-indulgence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Because they really hated the Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "He that hates Me, hates My Father also."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. "They hate both Me and My Father."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. A heart or life that is in league with Satan is at war with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Jesus represented the Father both in the words He said and in the works He did.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. In giving to them the words of the Father, and doing among them the works of the Father, it stirred up their ungodly wrath against Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Prior to the coming of Jesus, they might have pleaded innocent by reason of ignorance.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Now that they have heard the word of God, and have seen the work of God, there is no more excuse for their ungodly lifestyles.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Exposed as sinners and rank hypocrites, they hate the light that has exposed them, and they seek to extinguish the light.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Hence, their endeavor on many occasions to kill Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. Now you are standing before them in Jesus' stead, and you declare to them the Word of God and you manifest to them the work of God and as they hated Him they will also hate you. As they sought to destroy Him they will seek also to destroy you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "IF YOU WERE OF THIS WORLD, THE WORLD WOULD LOVE ITS OWN."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. If you will approve the ungodly speech, and actions of the wicked they will love you, you will be hailed as a wonderful person.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If you consent and go along to the parties where they are boozing it up, and sexually stimulating one another, you will be welcomed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If you will laugh at their filthy jokes, and their suggestive innuendoes, and share a few of your own, you will be accepted and loved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. James said, "You adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? And whoever is a friend of the world, is an enemy of God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You must choose between being a friend of the world, or the friend of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. I was thinking of how the world loves a fight.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The public will pay millions of dollars to see two men get into a small ring and seek to pound the other into senselessness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Men breed and train dogs to fight in a bull pit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Men breed cocks to tear other cocks to shreds.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. You may be at an exciting point in a game and a fight breaks out among the spectators, and all of the attention is immediately diverted to the fight in the stands.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Jesus came speaking peace and they hated Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. If you are a brawler, the world will love you, but if you seek to break up a fight, the world will jeer you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "BECAUSE I HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THIS WORLD."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Earlier in the same chapter Jesus had said to them, "You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained that you should be My disciples."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Now He is declaring that He has chosen them out of this world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Peter said that He has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I am not to love the world or the things that are in the world, for he that has the love of the world in his heart has not the love of the Father. He has chosen me out of this world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The psalmist said, "He has taken me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and has established my goings."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. I am so glad that He has chosen me out of this world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I have found that the closer I walk to Jesus, the more I hate the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Living in this world has almost become unbearable, and if it were not for the other Christians and the Christian influence in the world, it would be unbearable.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Some corrupted evil soul stole a car right out of the parking lot today as the mother was delivering her small child to their class.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Lawlessness grows daily, and the government which is supposed to fight against evil only aids and abets it with new laws to protect the guilty.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. This past week our state legislature which is supposed to represent us, voted special rights for homosexuals and lesbians, saying that you cannot discriminate against them in housing or jobs. This law was signed by our governor who cowardly bowed to the pressure of the strong homosexual community who have been seeking these special privileges for many years.I favor equal rights, but special rights is idiocy. So much for elected officials and so much for this corrupt world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. "THE SERVANT IS NOT GREATER THAN HIS LORD."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. I think in the realm of prayer how so many people think that they can get by successfully without it, when our Lord saw such a great need for it in His own personal life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. To me, one of the greatest arguments for the necessity for prayer is that Jesus prayed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The servant is not greater than His Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. This, of course, was said in context of that attitude that the world had toward Him of hatred.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If they hated Him, your Lord, they will hate you, His servant.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If the world would not listen to Him, they will not listen to you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Then why should we even waste our time and energy trying to reach the world?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. For even as there were those in His days who were sick of the world and thirsting for something better, there are those today waiting to hear the message of God's love and better life for them, if they will but just call upon Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. But how can they call upon Him of whom they have never heard? And how can they hear unless someone tells them?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Jesus was not successful in turning the world system to righteousness and neither will we be, the servant is not greater than his Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If the world rejected Him, it will reject you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If the world hated Him, the world will hate you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. If the world persecuted Him, the world will persecute you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. If the world kept My saying, they will keep yours.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Some have a difficulty here thinking that this is perhaps contradictory.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Jesus said, "If they kept My saying." Obviously they did not keep His sayings, for they crucified Him and they will not keep your sayings either. They will not heed your words anymore than they heeded the words of Jesus.</div>
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