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chosen you out of the world, therefore the



             world hateth you."




                    What  I'm  giving  you  tonight  is  just



             simply realities, and they’re realities for all



             of church history. We find that Christians are



             the most persecuted religious group in the



             entire  world.  I  preached  a  message  ten



             years ago in 2009 titled “Persecution” where



             I went through several facts and statistics,



             and I gave you the top ten nations that are



             on  the  top  of  the  list  for  persecution



             beginning with North Korea, Iraq, Ethiopia,



             Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Iran, China, Vietnam,



             Pakistan.  That's nine.  So we find that even



             to this day, there is persecution in the world.



             In John chapter 16, beginning in verse 1,






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