Get Out Of This World

John 15: 18-27

If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵ But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

²⁶ “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. ²⁷ And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

We are in the world but not of the world God tells us to remember.  The whole world lies under the sway of satan.  So for us to understand and make sure we’re not siding with Gods enemy we must constantly check our behaviors, thoughts, words, and repent when we are alone and even more when we are interacting with one another.  God says He would love that all His children come to their right mind and spend eternity with Him.  No matter how corrupt our world is, (even some of our family and friends), we are to always be expressing love in every part of our being.  God asks us to gird our minds in this battle with the enemy and this world he is trying to kill, steal, and destroy.  Our world was not spoken into existence for God’s children to run amok in.  We are not to use God’s power against Him as most of our world is doing.  We have the king’s breath in us, but our thoughts, which haven’t been trained in biblical standards, make our plans, our wishes and desires backfire on us.  Hate, jealously, contempt, rage, lies, cheating, deceiving, animosity, and wrong judging are not to be operating in the children of God, nor is complaining, bitterness, sadness, frustration, etc…  If you are standing for God and standing on His word through all your ups and downs, you are going to see evil at its best even within your own family and peers.  God had this universe all planned out before speaking it into existence.  Why do you think it only took Him 7 days to complete it?  The lands are blessed if we will call those things that aren’t as though they are.  The Holy Spirit is inside of us and when Jesus went back into Heaven He gave all authority over to us through the Holy Spirit.  However satan and his gang, including our brothers and sisters who are under his control, will do everything in their power to stop the blessing even while they’re praising the name of Jesus.  Get out of this world.

Blessings to all as we escape this world of darkness,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.