Mar 12, 2017 |Considering Jesus

Hating Truth

Noel Heikkinen

John 15:18-16:15

One day before Jesus goes to the cross, He warns His disciples that the world will hate them for the truth they are to bear witness to. 2000 years later, the same warning applies to modern day Christ followers. How are Christians to respond when we are met with hate when sharing the Gospel? Pastor Noel Jesse Heikkinen explains how Jesus instructs His followers to speak the truth firmly, but in a loving way. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we are able to share the truth of the Gospel no matter the opposition we are met with.

John 15:18-16:15

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“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 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 also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’

John 15:18–25

“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.

John 16:1–4

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

John 15:18

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 15:19

If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

John 15:20

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 15:22

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

John 15:24

“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

John 15:26

“And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning…I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.”

John 15:27;16:4

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

John 16:5–6

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

John 16:7

And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

John 16:8–11

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

John 16:12

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

John 16:13–15

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