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TITLE: Hated by All
TEXT: Mark 13:12-13
PROPOSITION: Christians must be prepared to suffer for Christ.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Principles
READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
Many believe that Christianity solves all their problems.
Listen to Jesus as he recruits workers - TEXT.
Here is my sermon - WE MUST BE DARE TO BE HATED BY THE WORLD AND BY THE BRETHREN.
“WE”
1 Peter 2:9-10 royal priesthood, peculiar people
Titus 2:14 a people zealous of good works
We = more than elders, deacons
We = all of us
“MUST”
- Luke 2:49 Must be about Father's business
- Matthew 13:10 Must preach gospel to all nations
- John 4:24 Must worship in spirit and truth
- Hebrews 11:6 come to God must believe
- John 3:5 Must be born again
“DARE”
- Boldness is needed - Stand by your guns
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you - go to law before the unjust?
- Acts 4:13 saw the boldness of Peter and John
- Acts 17:1-3 Opening and alleging - Jesus is Christ
- Vs. 6 “turned the world upside down”
“TO BE HATED”
- Matthew 10:22 You shall be hated of all men
- Matthew 14:9 Hated of all nations for my name's sake
- We must pay the price because a price was paid.
- Scorned, laughed at, 1 Peter 4:3-4
- HATED =
[1] Undeserved feeling 1 John 4:20 If a man hate his brother
[2] Right feeling toward evil Jude 23 hating the garment spotted by the flesh
[3] Preference of one to another Matthew 6:24 cannot serve two masters
- WE MUST BE ABLE TO HATE WITH A HOLY HATE BEFORE WE CAN LOVE WITH A HOLY LOVE.
“BY THE WORLD”
- 1 John 5:19 whole world lies in wickedness
- John 1:9-11Came to his own, received him not
- 1 John 2:15 Love not the world
- 1 John 3:13 Marvel not if the world hate you
- John 17:14 I have given them the world and the world hated them
“AND THE BRETHREN”
- Luke 6:22 Separate you from their company
- Mark 13:12 Brother shall deliver up brother, father against son
- Matthew 10:36 A man's foes shall be those of his own household
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