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Jan 22, 2017
Passage: John 15:19

Marvel Not At The World’s Hatred

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me 
before it hated you.

JOHN 15:18

Marvel not at the world’s hatred. God’s choice of us is the bone which they cannot endure: “…because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” (JOHN 15:19); especially those professors who make a fair shew in the flesh, but are ignorant of the celestial adorning of the soul.

Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. A demure [modest] countenance, feigned speech, decent behaviour, voluntary humility, reproving others, straining at gnats, sighing under the word, turning up the eyes, prayer meetings, and learning to prate—pass current enough with many. But a deep sight and sense of sin, a wounded spirit, a thirst for the living God, self-loathing, humility arising from a sense of undeserved mercy, meekness, submission under the rod, compunction of soul, a sorrowing after God, being stung with grief for past sins, repentance drawn forth by a believing discovery of the dying love of Christ, to rejoice with trembling, humble confidence, filial fear, cordial affections for the Son of God, and sympathetic fellowship with him in his dolorous [painful] sufferings, which make the King’s daughter all glorious within—these are the spangling jewels which adorn the renewed soul, and which these outside adorners know nothing of, nor care for; and it is these that are in the sight of God of great price.



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