This week we near the end of our sermon series, “Things Jesus Never Said.” For the past two months we have been learning to recognize some of the lies that we have picked up along the way. Lies that we find ourselves believing about God and about His word that very much effect our relationship with Him. Many of these lies sneak in because we have formed unrealistic expectations about what it means to follow Jesus. What it looks like, what it costs us, and even how it will inevitably affect the relationships we have with everyone else. Sometimes we find ourselves surprised by the way other people view us simply because we bear the name of Christ… This week we will see that Jesus clearly never said, “If you follow me, everyone will love you!"
John 15:18-21
“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.”
John 16:1-4
“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.
