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Jesus, Lover of My Soul
E. H. Jordan once told the story of how Charles Wesley’s Hymn, “Lover of My Soul” came to fruition.
He wrote,
“Charles Wesley was conducting one of his many open-air meetings, this one near Killyleagh, Ireland.
During the course of his preaching, a number of persons who took exception to his views assaulted him.
Unable to withstand the mob, Wesley fled for his life.
He took refuge in a farmhouse nearby.
Jane Moore, a kind-hearted wife of a farmer, hid the panting evangelist in the milkhouse.
She was barely in time, because at that moment some of Wesley’s assailants rushed up.
Mrs. Moore tried to divert their attention by preparing refreshments.
Fearful that they might search the premises and discover the harried evangelist, she went to the milkhouse on the pretext of getting a cold drink for her visitors.
“Quickly,” she bade him, “get through the rear window, and hide under the hedge.”
He clambered through the window and found a little brook flowing beside the hedge, forming a pool with overhanging branches that afforded a pleasant and safe retreat.
While waiting for the vindictive Irishmen to give up the search and leave, Wesley pulled a pencil and paper from his pocket and wrote out the immortal hymn, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul.”
The first words he wrote on the paper were,
“Jesus, lover of my soul,
let me to thy bosom fly,
while the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high;
hide me, O my Savior, hide,
till the storm of life is past;
safe into the haven guide,
O receive my soul at last!” Charles Wesley
God has created a vineyard for himself.
Jesus is the true Vine.
Everyone whom the Father has drawn to the Son, who have embraced him by faith, are the true branches that bear good fruit.
True branches bear the fruit of great commitment to Christ that lives a life of love for Jesus that expresses itself through joyful obedience and endurance.
True branches that bear good fruit have a great communion with Jesus, having his word abide in them and their prayers answered.
True branches bear the fruit of the great commission, sharing the gospel, sowing and reaping the fruit of God’s word by seeing conversions; more branches added to the Vine.
Commitment, Communion, and Commission are the fruit of any believer and church that has the life of Jesus pulsating in its spiritual veins.
And when a believer or church is bearing fruit like this in the vineyard, Jesus warns that their will be opposition.
Knowing is Half the Battle
If you ever watched G.I. Joe in the 1980’s, they would end every show with a tag line, “Knowing is half the battle.”
Being informed about what the situation is, where you need to be, and what you must do when you get there, is vital to mission success.
Int he same vein, Jesus is helping his disciples remain in him by helping them know what is going to happen to them.
In the middle of the vine metaphor, Jesus plainly tells his disciples,
The word “if” can almost be rendered “when.”
When the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.
Think back to Matthew 5:11, when Jesus says blessed are you when other revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
The world at some point in your Christian walk will hate you because you love Jesus.
In John 15:18-16:4, Jesus will spend the next fifteen verses or so explaining to his disciples why the world will hate them.
He is telling them this because knowing this truth will help them not abandon the faith; commit apostasy.
Remaining in Jesus is mission success.
Jesus uses the word scandalizomai for “falling away.”
It carries the sense of “causing to disbelieve” or to “stumble.”
Persecution has the power to offend you in such a way that you loose faith.
The parable of the soils reveals that you can have a rocky soil heart that at first appears like you have genuine faith, but the heat of persecution scorches the leaves of faith and you quickly fall away (Matthew 13:6).
Jesus explains the meaning of the rocky soil heart,
To keep you from falling away, or positively stated, “to help you remain in him,” Jesus tells his disciples upfront how life is going to be in the vineyard.
You will be hated by some because you are connected to Jesus.
So the message for you is,
Knowing you will be hated by the world for Jesus sake will help you remain in Him until the end.
Jesus in other words, Jesus is saying to his church, don’t be surprised by suffering for the gospel.
That is a normal part of living in the vineyard.
The world will hate you because it hates me.
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Don’t be surprised when You are hated by the world for being connected to Jesus; let your light shine before men (John 15:18-20)
The world will hate you because the world hates Jesus.(v18)
The world that John is referring to is the kosmos.
In this sense, however, the word kosmos denotes everything that belongs to the world, appearing as that which is hostile to God, that is, lost in sin, wholly at odds with anything divine, ruined and depraved (BDAG).
The world we live in is sinful and broken.
John referred the world as darkness.
In the prologue of John’s gospel, chapter 1, John says of Jesus,
When Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus, he reveals the status of the world.
He says,
Darkness is a metaphor in John for evil.
The world is evil and the people who live in it are born sinners who love the darkness over the light.
Furthermore, Paul reminds us that Satan is not in hell, but in fact, among us wrecking havoc for God’s people.
In Ephesians 2, Paul describes our natural condition before we come to Jesus.
He says
Ephesians 2:1–3 (ESV)
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
You were once under the influence of Satan, a child of wrath, following the passions of your flesh like the rest of mankind.
But God made you alive in Christ and transferred you out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light, of his beloved Son (Colossians 1:13).
Jesus said in verse 19, “I chose you out of the world.”(John
15:19) Your allegiance is now for Jesus and His kingdom.
The dark world that hates Jesus now hates anyone who has the light of Jesus in them.
Why does the world hate Jesus?
It some ways it seems odd that the world hates Jesus.
Jesus was progressive in his day.
He fought the religious elite of his day.
He transcended social barriers by loving the poor and giving prominence to women.
His values and morals have been emulated by all kinds of people over the course of two thousand years.
Why hate such a popular sage or Jewish philosopher?
The world hates him because he is not a sage or philosopher.
He is the very Son of God whose light reveals the evil deeds of darkness.
Jesus is the light of the world.
His light shines when he testifies about God with his words and deeds.
And when he does that, his light exposes everything.
It’s as if God came into your room at night, after your eyes have adjusted to the darkness, and turned on a light switch.
He exposes all of your filth and funk.
And when evil is exposed it feels the shame and guilt, and bears the condemnation of God.
The child of wrath does not surrender to the light, but with all of his heart tries to extinguish it.
You tell God to turn that light off!
So it is with Jesus and the world.
The world hates Jesus because his truth, his righteousness, his holiness, and his justice exposes the worlds hypocrisy, depravity, immorality, and corruption.
Everyone who has the light of Christ in them and testifies with His word and deeds, they too bring light to the dark deeds of the world.
You will be hated by the world because of how Jesus shines through you.
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