DAILY BREAD OF LIFE

(KJV.)  ST. JOHN 15:18-19

(18)  If the world hate you,  ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

(19)  If ye were of the world,  the world would love his own:  but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,  therefore the world hateh you.

(18)  If the world hate you,  ye know that it hated me before it hated you.  Brethren,  at times, we wonder why we are hated so much in this world?  in this context;  Jesus said, if we are hated by the world, it is because the world hated him first;  why would the world hate Jesus?  (i)  the world hated Jesus because of who he is, the Son of the true, righteous and living Father of all creation. (1 John 5:20);  (ii)  they hated him because he is the light of this world of darkness, darkness cannot prevail against light. (John 8:12);  (iii)  if we receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, believe in him, have faith, walk in his righteousness, hope for his glorious second coming, we are children of light, not of darkness; (1 Thessalonians 5:5);  (iv)  if we are redeemed from world of darkness, all our iniquities purge away by blood of Jesus and we dwell in his marvelous light;  let us also walk as children of light, (Ephesians 5:8);  (v)  let us show fruits of the Spirit, show love, be good to one another, walk in godliness and be truthful in all our ways.  (Ephesians 5:9);  (vi)  if we are children of light and are in fellowship with the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit;  let us bear fruits of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance;  in opposition to these things, there is no law.  (Galatians 5:22-23);  (vii)  if we belong to Jesus Christ, and are his children of light, we are also crucified and resurrected with him. our old passions and desires are to be  done away with and we live by faith in his righteousness, (Galatians 2:20); therefore, if we dwell in lights, let us not have fellowship with works of darkness, but walk in Spirit, not be too proud of our appearances, abilities, and achievements, think we are better and successful than others, to cause them to feel like failures and resent one another, but be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. (Ephesians 4:2).

(19)  If ye were of the world,  the world would love his own:  but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,  therefore the world hateh you.  Brethren,  if we are in the world of darkness, among the heathen, walking in perdition, doing what everybody does, the world will admire our waywardness and will love us as its own, everything we do will be proven as perfect by the heathen; however, (i)  since we are still in the world, but chosen out of darkness into marvelous lights of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, (1 Peter 2:9);  (ii)  because of who we are in Jesus Christ,  the world will hate us;  it is written,  "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." (Luke 6:22);  therefore, if we mind our own business, causing no harm to others, but enemies will take upon themselves to slander our names, gossip, mock, look for our faults to use them as evil news against us;  let us know that these things already happened to Jesus Christ and if we are walking in his light, not in world of darkness, enemies will hate us also for no apparent reasons, because they first hated him;  it is written, "The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil." (John 7:7);  therefore, brethren, when enemies hate us;  let us rejoice and know that we are in the light and not in darkness, and we are doing something right that is making our enemies to worry, gossip and mock about us; however, (i)  enemies are indirectly working for our Father to turn our mocking into everlasting blessings so we can laugh, rejoice, praise and glorify his Holy Name forever;  (ii)  enemies of Joseph, led him into his blessings as overseer of all things in the land of Egypt, (Genesis 41);  it is written,  "But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive."(Genesis 50:20);  therefore, let us not be downcast when it seems like our enemies are prevailing against us, but have faith in Jesus Christ, that in due times, he will prove us as children of lights, not of darkness of this world forevermore.  

CONCLUSION:

Dearly beloved, today we learn that the world of darkness hates believers because we are in the light of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior;  let us not backslide from the faith because of evil works of our enemies, but stand firm and wait on Jesus Christ;  though it seems like he has forsaken us, he does  not forsake his own but is still with us in our troubles, working for us, not against us; to bring all things together for good;  therefore, come unto him all ye that labor and are heavy laden, there is rest in him, salvation, grace and life forever and evermore.  Amen and amen!

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

(KJV.)  1 John 3:15  Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.