Tag: the world
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Do you love? What’s your definition?
John 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own.” How does the world, i.e., the world that is opposed to Christ and all He represents, love? We are told in the verse above that the world does show love, i.e., “brotherly love” or phileo, as rendered in the…
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The silent treatment
John 15:18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” According to the words of Jesus in the verse above, the world will likely hate us if we are one of His followers. By the “world” Jesus is referring to the ordered systems of this world, and…