Page 22 - The Promise of Persecution

In John15:19, Jesus said to His disciples,

“ 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 hateth you.”

Now, the disciples were not of the world.

They were chosen out of the world, and yet

they were left in the world to minister to

those who were around them. So without

any doubt, Jesus is telling His disciples that

the world will hate them because of Him,

and the same is still true today.

I'll not read all of these, but I kept some

examples from ten years ago when I

preached on this subject of persecution,

and I'll give you just a few of these. "What it

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