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converted and who are not sold out to Jesus

Christ, so they bring about emotional

persecution within the family. And, again,

Jesus is saying to His disciples that we are not

to fear being disliked by the world. Who cares

what the world says, because the world is

going to Hell and the world has always got the

wrong doctrine and the wrong theology and

the wrong concepts of the way things should

be, and the Lord Jesus says in Matthew 15 and

in a hundred other places that we will be hated

by the world. Now, we might as well settle that

— and that includes friends that we used to

have and relatives, and when we read verse 36,

“And a man's foes” — that is, his enemies —

“shall be they of his own household,” it’s sad

that this sword that Jesus talked about, this

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