John 15:18-21
18 “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.
Because the world hates good and denies accountability to God, it hates Jesus Christ who demands repentance and faith. So it hates and persecutes us who are His ambassadors, attacking the heavenly kingdom we represent. He chose us out of this world and so we are no longer its citizens, but those of a larger kingdom, without end. Why are we attacked? Because they do not know God through Christ and refuse to bow to the King of kings, at most having a form of religion but denying its source.
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