God Is Plural
September 27, 2020
John 15:18-27 – The Message
Hated by the World
18-19 “If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its start hating me. If you lived on the world’s terms, the world would love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God’s terms and no longer on the world’s terms, the world is going to hate you.
20 “When that happens, remember this: Servants don’t get better treatment than their masters. If they beat on me, they will certainly beat on you. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell them.
21-25 “They are going to do all these things to you because of the way they treated me, because they don’t know the One who sent me. If I hadn’t come and told them all this in plain language, it wouldn’t be so bad. As it is, they have no excuse. Hate me, hate my Father—it’s all the same. If I hadn’t done what I have done among them, works no one has ever done, they wouldn’t be to blame. But they saw the God-signs and hated anyway, both me and my Father. Interesting—they have verified the truth of their own Scriptures where it is written, ‘They hated me for no good reason.’
26-27 “When the Friend I plan to send you from the Father comes—the Spirit of Truth issuing from the Father—he will confirm everything about me. You, too, from your side must give your confirming evidence, since you are in this with me from the start.”
Hello Podrishioners,
Today’s message is the first for our new message series, “Finding God In Popular Culture.” Our message today is titled “God is Plural.” Pastor Harold unpacks John 15:18-27 and lays the groundwork for the rest of the series. We will time travel through the 1950s to our present time, to learn about the shift that has taken place in our culture, and why America finds itself in the shape it’s in today. We will discover what it will take to live as kingdom people in a pluralistic world. God is not dead, and God will win in the end, but Christians have a lot to learn from their past and how to carry a kingdom message into the future.
Shalom,
Team Hill-Tran
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