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Jack Graham - Why They Hate Us

May 24, 2026 | 27:29

Jack Graham - Why They Hate Us
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Why They Hate Us | May 24, 2026
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • As jesus is in the upper room with his disciples, and as he
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  • Walks with them now, he gives such amazing promises and
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  • Proclamations. so far, so much of what jesus has been saying
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  • To his men, the chosen, that he's been speaking about love.
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  • “this shall all men know that you are my disciples, that you
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  • Love one another,” “love one another even as i have loved
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  • You.”
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  • Because jesus is preparing his followers for the future
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  • Without him. he gives the promise of his spirit. he gives
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  • The promise of his presence always by the holy spirit. he
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  • Speaks to us about joy and about peace that the world
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  • Can't give and the world can't take away. he speaks to us
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  • About abiding, abiding, connecting, and centering our
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  • Lives in him. and so as he's speaking, he talks about going
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  • To heaven and preparing a place for us in heaven. he gives us
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  • These spectacular, supernatural promises that come from him.
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  • And when we get to chapter 15 of john, verses 17 to 25 is
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  • Where we're going to be today. everything takes a turn from
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  • Being all about love, love, and more love, and it turns to a
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  • Message on hate. and the title of this message is “why the
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  • World hates us.” what did jesus say about that?
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  • Verse 17,
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  • “17) these things i command you so that you will love one
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  • Another. 18) and if the world hates you, know that it has
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  • Hated me before it hated you. 19) if you were of the world,
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  • The world would love you as its own. but because you are not of
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  • The world, but i chose you out of the world, therefore the
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  • World hates you. 20) remember the word that i said to you, a
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  • Servant is not greater than the master. if they persecuted me,
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  • They will also persecute you. if they kept my word, they will
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  • Also keep yours. 21) but all these things they will do to
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  • You on account of my name, because they do not know him
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  • Who sent me. 22) if i had not come and spoken to them, they
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  • Would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no
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  • Excuse for their sin. 23) whoever hates me hates my
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  • Father also. 24) and if i had not done among them the works
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  • That no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. but
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  • Now they have seen and hated both me and my father. 25) but
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  • The word that is written in their law must be fulfilled.
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  • They hated me without a cause.
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  • When you become a follower of jesus christ, you will be hated
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  • By the world. that's what jesus said. the same world that
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  • Rejected jesus will reject us also. now this is a riveting
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  • And revealing passage of scripture, because when you
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  • Choose by god's grace to live a christ-centered life, you are
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  • Putting your life on the line. you are gambling your life for
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  • God.
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  • There were a group of christians in the first century
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  • In the book of acts, namely barnabas and paul. and when
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  • They were speaking to the congregation, it was said of
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  • These two men, “they hazarded their lives.” they risked their
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  • Lives for the name of jesus christ. and the word hazarded
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  • Or risked there could actually be translated gambling. these
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  • Are god's gamblers. they had bet their lives on the message
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  • Of jesus. when you follow jesus, you put your life on the
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  • Line.
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  • You know the story of charlie kirk by now. age 31, the
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  • Founder of turning point usa. he put his life on the line and
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  • He was shot and killed by a demonized assassin at utah
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  • Valley university, doing what he loved to do, which was
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  • Having conversations with college students and young
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  • Adults about truth. i have no doubt that charlie kirk was
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  • Assassinated because of his biblical beliefs. his beliefs
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  • About the sanctity of life. his beliefs about god's design for
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  • Creation and sexuality and marriage and the family.
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  • Charles was bold in his witness and he was never ashamed to
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  • Speak of his relationship with jesus christ. his biblical
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  • Worldview informed his political viewpoint, as it
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  • Should ours, because charlie and all christians should stand
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  • On the authority and the accuracy of god's word.
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  • So charlie kirk is in heaven today, as his blood was spilled
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  • On earth. but as tertullian in the second or third century
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  • Said, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. i
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  • Believe that the death of charlie kirk that was so
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  • Public, exposed so vividly, is rocket fuel for the church's
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  • Flame in our generation. not just his, but many others as
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  • Well.
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  • But regarding charlie, thousands of christians,
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  • Especially young believers, are stepping up and speaking out,
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  • Some for the very first time. many other young people are
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  • Returning to christ and the church, especially young men.
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  • We know that bible sales are escalating since the
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  • Assassination of charlie kirk, upwards to 25%.
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  • And therefore, what happened to charlie is what happens in the
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  • World when christians stand boldly for christ, even to the
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  • Point of spilling their own blood, as millions have done
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  • Through the centuries in the name of jesus.
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  • So the question comes to us, in our generation, and in america,
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  • And to people around the world, the question comes, how on
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  • Earth should we then live? and why does the world hate us? my
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  • Goal in this message is to strengthen your faith, so that
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  • All of us would be willing to go tell the gospel.
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  • The bible is the bestselling, most translated, and most
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  • Quoted book of all time, and yet so many have neglected
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  • Reading or have completely missed what the bible is all
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  • About. in a world of chaos and confusion uncertainty out
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  • There, the bible is the only constant. the only certainty is
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  • Jesus himself and his word, who is the same yesterday, today,
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  • And forever.
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  • And i want to help you see god's word with clearer eyes.
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  • By sending you my brand-new book, “the jesus book, reading
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  • And understanding the bible for yourself.” the jesus book is my
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  • We know that god's word is powerful. it is the story of
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  • Salvation through christ, with the scarlet thread of
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  • Redemption running through its pages from beginning to end.
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  • That's why i call it the jesus book. i hope you'll take the
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  • The word of god come alive in you
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  • And abide in you now and forever.
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  • Thank you so much for being a powerful part of god's word
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  • Through powerpoint. changing hearts,
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  • Changing lives till the whole world hears.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • So what are we in this world, and why does the world hate us?
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  • Number one, we are chosen out of this world. we are chosen
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  • Out of this world. that's verse 19, that we just read a moment
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  • Ago, when jesus said, i have chosen you out of this world.
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  • And because we are out of this world, and chosen out of this
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  • World, we are not always at home in this world. as the old
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  • Gospel song says, this world is not my home, i'm just passing
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  • Through.
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  • We are pilgrims, as peter said. we are citizens of heaven,
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  • Living on earth. and we have been saved from this hell-bent,
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  • Hell-bound generation in which we live. we've been saved out
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  • Of the world, because by god's grace, we have been called unto
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  • Him. that's what jesus said. he said, i have chosen you. and
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  • Remember, what he said to these disciples, he later affirmed in
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  • His prayer in john 17, that he's praying this, and
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  • Promising this to all of us who would follow him.
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  • Now, we better identify what the bible means in this case
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  • Regarding the world. why jesus is talking about the world and
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  • People in the world hating us. the world, the word in the
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  • Language of the new testament is cosmos. we get our word
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  • Cosmetic, for example. it means the arrangement of things or
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  • The orderly arrangements of things. when you are putting on
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  • Cosmetics, you are arranging your face and putting things in
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  • Order.
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  • The cosmos is the world system. it is, put briefly, the
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  • Anti-god, anti-christ spirit that is already in the world.
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  • The world, it's not talking about the world of people that
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  • God loves and that we are loved. not talking about the
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  • Planet itself, but the world, meaning the cosmos, the spirit
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  • Of the age, the domain of darkness. jesus tells us
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  • Earlier in john 16, verse 15, that satan is the ruler of the
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  • Cosmos. he's the king of the cosmos.
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  • And so when you come out of the world, when you're called by
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  • Jesus to follow jesus, when you come out, then now you are on a
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  • Collision course with the cosmos and the king of the
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  • Cosmos. jesus said, i chose you out of this world.
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  • I love this. because now our relationship with the world and
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  • The things in this world has changed. we have a new
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  • Direction. we have repented. we've turned around from going
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  • One way into sin and judgment. and in our repentance, we've
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  • Turned to trust in christ, repenting of our sin. so now we
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  • Have a brand new direction. we have a brand new disposition.
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  • And you say, well, i don't know, pastor. is this an
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  • Exaggeration that the world really hates us? because i got
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  • A lot of friends in the world and i don't think they really
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  • Hate me. well, let me ask, let me just suggest this. if you
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  • Want to see hostility directed towards you, dare to say
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  • Something like jesus said in john 14:6, when he said, “i am
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  • The way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the
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  • Father except by me.” say that and watch the hostility and
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  • Even the hatred rise.
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  • When we call evil, evil, when we look through our bible
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  • Through the lens of scripture and say what god says is evil,
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  • You know, the world says what is good is evil and what is
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  • Evil is good. calling good evil and evil good.
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  • So when we call evil, evil, when we say it, watch the
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  • Hostility follow. when we say homosexuality is evil. when we
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  • Say gender identity and the mutilation of children is evil.
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  • When we say aborting a baby in a mother's womb is evil. when
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  • We say fornication and all sexual sin is evil. when we say
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  • Idolatrous religion without christ is evil. when we say
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  • Something is evil, according to god's word,
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  • We are hated for that.
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  • Strong word, hate. was jesus hated from the very beginning,
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  • Satan hated him, herod hated him. people in his hometown of
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  • Nazareth despised him, hated him, tried to kill him early.
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  • The religious system hated him. many people hated him. the
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  • Demons hated him. they hated him.
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  • Jesus was the perfect, pure savior and the son of god. but
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  • He said, the world hates me. “he came into his own and his
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  • Own received him not.” he was rejected. think about that. he
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  • Healed the sick. he raised the dead. he lifted the lame. he
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  • Fed the hungry. he helped the hurting. he loved the unlovable
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  • And yet they killed him. why? because they hated him and
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  • Hated what he said and what he claimed.
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  • So here's, here's the message. expect resistance.
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  • Christianity, real christianity is not popular in the world.
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  • Being a christian is not a popularity contest where
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  • Everybody applauds you and everyone approves of you. quite
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  • The contrary. jesus said, you're going to be persecuted.
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  • This was a promise, a prediction, a prophecy that he
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  • Made. and it's happening today. it's happened through the
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  • Generations, for all these centuries.
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  • Cultural opposition and hostility is intensifying in
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  • Our generation. it's happening in america. so don't be
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  • Surprised if people mock you or misunderstand you when you tell
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  • Them that you are a follower of jesus.
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  • If you've never felt the heat, if you've never in some way
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  • Have been opposed for your faith, i would just simply ask
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  • You, are you trying to be invisible as a christian? are
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  • You trying to just kind of be a wallflower in the room? do you
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  • Want to be a secret disciples? we're not to blend in to what
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  • Is here and now. we're to stand out, not blend in.
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  • So i'm encouraging you and i'm challenging every one of us to
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  • Ask god to give us all more boldness in believing. never
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  • Stop standing. never stop shining. never stop sharing
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  • Jesus.
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  • Why does the world hate us? several reasons i want to
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  • Mention. number one, the world hates us because it doesn't
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  • Understand us. the world hates what it doesn't understand. the
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  • World can't comprehend our joy.
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  • The world says, follow your heart. jesus says, follow me.
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  • The world says stuff like, believe in yourself, whatever
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  • That means. but jesus says, believe in me. the world says,
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  • Discover yourself. jesus says, deny yourself. the world says,
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  • Be true to you. you be you. be true to you. but jesus says, be
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  • True to me. be true and faithful to me.
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  • So the world hates us because it doesn't get us. it doesn't
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  • Understand us. and secondly, the world doesn't get us
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  • Because the gospel and the good news of christ and the message
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  • That we bring confront sin. and the world doesn't like to think
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  • About or talk about sin for the most part.
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  • Another reason is the light of the truth of the gospel exposes
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  • Darkness. jesus said men love darkness rather than light. so
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  • The world hates the light and that includes the light of
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  • Jesus.
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  • So jesus prophecies here are fulfilled in every generation.
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  • I think about christians living in nigeria and we've mentioned
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  • This several times recently. hundreds of christians, yay
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  • Thousands, 50,000 nigerian christians have been killed,
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  • Martyred, murdered, massacred since 2009 and that's probably
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  • Not all of them. every year in nigeria, 1,200 churches are
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  • Burned, burned to the ground. entire villages where
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  • Christians live are burned. people are carried away and
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  • Captured. pray for the christians in nigeria.
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  • Somewhere around 100 million people are under the threat of
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  • Persecution. and you know where? primarily in muslim
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  • Countries. in muslim countries, pray for christians who are
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  • Living in these countries.
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  • But what about america? in america, the cancel culture, if
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  • Not to kill us physically, wants to kill our message. you
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  • Know what the culture wants to do, the anti-christ, anti-god
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  • Culture? they want first to stigmatize us and that's all
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  • The name calling and you're the bigots and you're the
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  • Homophobes and you're anti-god, you're anti-women, you're
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  • Anti... all that, they stigmatize us in order to shame
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  • Us. and you know why to shame us? to silence us. so we are
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  • Stigmatized and shamed in order that we might be silenced.
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  • Well there's a price to pay when we follow jesus. there is
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  • A cost to obedience. what did jesus say in luke 9:23, “if
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  • Anyone desires to follow me, to come after me, let him deny
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  • Himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
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  • Above all, we must not be ashamed of the gospel of jesus
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  • Christ. this is the reason we preach christ and teach the
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  • Bible and grow the church and advance the kingdom of god.
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  • This is why i keep doing this. this is why i keep going. this
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  • Is why it gets me up every day to proclaim christ, to lead the
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  • Church, fulfill the great commission.
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  • Yes, i believe it. in our generation, we can reach a
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  • Billion people with the gospel of christ in this generation.
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  • We can do it because of the word. you say, how are we going
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  • To do this? how are we going to do this? god has given us the
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  • Holy spirit and this is the work of the holy spirit, that
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  • God would give us our belief and our boldness.
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  • So we're going to keep doing what we always do. we're going
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  • To keep overcoming evil with good, overcoming darkness with
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  • Light. we will keep protecting the lives of the unborn. we
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  • Will keep speaking out against sin and any movement that is a
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  • Sinful movement. we will call god's people, the church, to
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  • Purity and godliness and holiness. we will train up a
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  • New generation of young believers who will follow
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  • Christ into the future. we will speak truth in love. we will
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  • Support israel and the people of israel. we'll keep doing
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  • That.
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  • But most of all, we're going to keep preaching the gospel of
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  • Jesus christ, which is his death, his burial, his
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  • Resurrection, and salvation comes in christ and christ
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  • Alone.
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  • So the final point, all right, i'm going to nail it. so the
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  • Final point, we are chosen out of the world. we're on a
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  • Different track. we're not of the world. james said,
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  • “friendship with the world is war with god.” we make god an
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  • Enemy when we are a friend of this world, according to the
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  • Bible. so we are cursed by the world. we're chosen out of the
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  • World, and we are called into the world.
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  • Verse 16, jesus said, “that you would go and bear much fruit.”
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  • How are we to love those that hate us? we're not going to
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  • Return hate for hate. some people may call truth hate, but
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  • That's not hate. we speak the truth in love. if you love
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  • Someone, you tell them the truth, especially about the
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  • Eternal truths of the bible.
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  • And so jesus gave us one mission to the people of the
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  • World. the world, though the world hates us, the world
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  • System, not all your neighbors hate you, but the system, the
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  • World ruled by satan, the domain of darkness and the
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  • Worldlings that are captured in this domain, in this prison
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  • House, they will hate you, but we don't hate them because the
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  • World is our mission field. the people of this world are our
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  • Mission to “go into all the world and preach the gospel.”
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  • That's the great commission.
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  • Too many christians have turned the great commission into the
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  • Great omission. we're not doing it. jesus said in acts 1:8,
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  • “you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon
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  • You, and you will be my witnesses.” every christian is
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  • A witness. you're either a good one or a poor one.
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  • The world is our mission field. this is why we do what we do.
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  • We're called out of the world to go into the world, to tell
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  • The world who jesus is, and that he is mighty to save. and
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  • That's the main business we have in this world. the reason
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  • That we're still here and not in heaven, as long as we are
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  • Here and not in heaven, we have been given this mission and
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  • Co-mission together.
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  • And i like to think of the idea that not only do we have an
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  • Individual witness, you and you and you and you and you and
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  • You, everyone has a personal individual witness. but as a
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  • Church, we have a congregational witness. we have
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  • A corporate witness. and so what we do together, can you
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  • Imagine if god's people, god's church really got together?
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  • So in closing, our witness is to the world. i want to caution
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  • Us, the witness is not just sitting around together in
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  • Huddles, waiting for the second coming, studying the bible,
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  • Memorizing verses. you know, i believe in all that, but that's
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  • Not our primary mission, just to hang out with christians,
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  • People we like, and maybe some we don't like, but our goal is
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  • Not to just be together. our goal is to go together as jesus
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  • Has commanded us.
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  • So in this world that hates us, what are we to do? we're to
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  • Stay calm because he's given us a peace. in the midst of the
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  • Chaos, stay calm. stay confident, because we have a
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  • Gospel that we're not ashamed or afraid to share. stay
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  • Committed, stay compassionate, and stay courageous, because
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  • Even though the world hates us, so what? we're not in this to
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  • Be applauded or cheered. some may cheer, but most will jeer
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  • If you're faithful to the gospel.
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  • Jesus said it's going to happen. the bible says “all
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  • That live godly in christ jesus will suffer persecution.” so
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  • Get ready. be willing to face the flag, take the heat,
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  • Whatever it is, to be mocked, to be misunderstood, to be
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  • Resisted, to be slandered, to be lied about, because you're a
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  • Christian. because to the world, the gospel is an
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  • Offense. we shouldn't be an offense or offensive with our
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  • Attitudes and actions, but the gospel is an offense because it
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  • Condemns people in their sin and requires a savior and the
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  • Salvation that only comes through jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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