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Text: John 15:17-27
CIT: The World hates having its sin revealed; God hates the sin that hides.
I think in a room this size and gathered for this purpose we would all object to being called worldly.
We would take acception to the idea that we duplicitous.
Or that we were hypocrites looking to fit in both in the world as well as the church.
But we must know the temption today.
Every labor, activity, and work of man is, in his natural state, based upon competition with others.
Women can be tempted to compete based upon
their looks,
beauty,
figure
whom they have married
how well or poorly their spouse treats them.
They compete based upon
how successful their children are in school, sports, or other activities
trying to outperform men in what has traditionally been areas
Men are prone to find their worth in
who they are dating
status at work
bank account
athleticism
ability to fix things
their house, yard, and other possessions.
A man is tempted to think that he has made it if he can just outdo some other man in terms of achievement, wealth, or any other kind of competition.
Much of this is so ingrained in our ways as men and women that we don’t even have to consciously decide to compete and compare.
We do it without even noticing it.
We subconsciously chase after the wind, and we have become enslaved to a temptation of the devil.
We are trying to find our worth and identity not based in how God values us but in what others think of us.
This is why we glorify and even deify sports stars, Hollywood icons, pop artists, and media elites.
We constantly live under the illusion of if only I did this, had this, made this, knew so-and-so, became like so-and-so, and got this, then I would get so-and-so’s approval and then I would be happy.
This was ordained and designed to fail.
Such is supposed to draw us to the only true source of satisfaction, wholeness, healing, and fulfillment which is Jesus Christ.
It is all by God’s design.
Jesus warned of their hate.
He told the disciples about the nature of the hate they would receive.
The hate of Proximity...Because they hated Jesus.
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You and I can arrive at the conclusion that the world wouldn’t be fans of the disciples because they hated Jesus.
That is true… there is no wonder why the disciples ran when Jesus was arrested.
That reason is if Jesus could get arrested so could they.
This warning came before they all abandoned him in the garden of Gethsemane.
The hate of Differentiation...Because you are not “of” the world.
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Disgust is an idea that is wired within us from birth to keep us alive.
When we smell something that is disgusting we move away from it.
When we taste something that brings disgust we spit it out.
When something disgusts us we repel it from us because it keeps us alive.
This is also true in ideology.
We live in a culture today that puts this on full display.
We watch in real time people emotionally respond to something that they have never experienced before but because the notion brings up disgust in their mind or heart they have decided to respond in disgust.
Why because it threatens something they already perceive as true.
The hate of Servanthood...Because you are not greater than Jesus.
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This reason simply explains the reason that God would allow the disciples to experience hostility.
Why should they have this same hate given to them.
They didn’t claim to be the son of God.
They didn’t promise to rise again.
All these reasons explain why the disciple will experience hatred and even martyrdom.
It does not capture for us the reason that God is hated.
Or that Jesus is hated by the world because of God.
2. Jesus points out it is He who they really hate.
When speaking about his opponents our former president Donald Trump made an apt observation.
“In reality they’re not after me they’re after you.
I’m just in their way.”
- Donald Trump
This is very similar to the sentiment of this passage.
Except Jesus points out some major spiritual issues.
They are not really the sons and daughters of God.
They don’t even know him.
Think of it.
these false teachers who claimed they please God not only didn’t please him they didn’t know him at all.
There will be many in the church age that will do the same.
Please know that you cannot oppose the work of God and be his.
You cannot claim his name and deny his purpose.
Shame makes them hate God.
The problem is that God keeps exposing their sin.
They had a way of covering up their sin before but now their is nothing to protect them from righteousness’ searing gaze.
Jesus proved he was from God and if Jesus hated their sin…Then so must God.
They can’t let that stand.
But in so doing they have proven that they hate God.
Understand John 15.23
He is not claiming related hate.
In otherwords he is not saying God and I are one so you must hate both of us.
He explains in 24 that the hate experienced was because they didn’t like it when Jesus revealed who God is.
Jesus did the works promised of the Messiah.
That is no problem there but when the false teachers heard that Jesus felt some kind of way about them, then they had a problem.
This is the issue today.
When you come telling of a Jesus that healed and did good.
The world loves him.
But when you speak of his problem with their sin and the private choices being made “who are you to judge”.
The issue is the same.
When Jesus proved he spoke for God then shame became personal and they had to push against it.
3. Jesus points out the true reason for this hate - they hate the Father.
You say wait a second that doesn’t make any sense.
Well of course not their is not logic to this… John 15.25
You just went over all the causes of the hate that they have.
That is true but only to the extent that this is an appropriate response.
There is not causation that would allow for the explanation of hating God.
There was no understandable or logical motivation for such hatred.
They hated none the less.
We can understand the reason but their are no arguments that will hold up under logic.
The World hates God...
The world has its own god.
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