What to Expect

 Note: Not sure what's going on or if any former readers will receive this "Everything is different, nowadays" --Jesse Crow

John 15: 18-21

The World Hates the Disciples

 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.

Jesus warns us to be willing to accept what happened to him, to happen to us; rejection, suffering, even death in some cases.  Our success, or joy will cum when this chapter concludes. We want to be successful, to be accepted, to know that we have "made a difference". Jesus has set the pattern, suffering may or could be part of it, but in the end following him leads to "success". not always in the eyes of the world, as always, n HIS eyes.

Bro. Rene