“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
The world loves its own because like loves like. But you are not of the world, Christ has called you out of it and chosen you for His work. Therefore the world hates you, and that hatred is itself your evidence that you truly belong to Him, not to it.
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The Father loved Christ as Mediator and gave all things into His hand; Christ abode in that love by keeping His Father's commandments. As the Father has loved Him, so He loves us, and we abide in His love by keeping what He commands.
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Commenting on John 15:9-17
The world's hatred is no misfortune but a seal of our calling. Christ presses mutual love on His disciples precisely because the world will hate them; that very hatred proves we are not the world's own but chosen out of it and separated to His service.
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