He who has been taken into fellowship with God, accepted, counted right, counted pure, counted

just, doesn't need that to happen over and over again. It's done. All he needs is day to day, feet washing.

How can we stay faithful to Christ while enduring the world's hostility?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explores John 17, to 19 showing how God protects purifies and

empowers us to live for him this teaching was originally delivered at

Bethlehem Baptist Church on March 2nd 1986 we're working through the high priestly prayer as it's sometimes called the prayer that Jesus prayed in the upper room, the Gospel of John, that last night of his life on earth before his crucifixion. Jesus is praying,

I have given to them, that is, to his disciples whom the Father has given him out of the world,

I have given to them your word, your is his Father in heaven.

And the world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

They are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world. And on their behalf, I sanctify myself in order that they might be sanctified in truth.

Before he gets to his request here in verse 15, that's where his request starts, he gives in verse 14 another reason why the disciples need help from the Father.

So let's focus for a moment on what that reason is. He says, I have given to them your

word and the world hated them because they are not of the world.

Now in the preceding verses, he had just said that he has been with them and has guarded them.

Now he is going out of the world and they are staying into the world.

Therefore, Father, keep them in the name which thou hast given me same idea only here things get worse they're not just being left

without Jesus they're being left with enemies they are going to be hated

in the world so he's not just abandoning them as it, and that creates a problem that needs to be solved through prayer, but he's abandoning them to a hostile world of wolves to use his words in another place. Of course, we know he's not really abandoning them because the Father is going to answer this prayer through the Holy Spirit.

But that's the problem that's being faced here. The world hated them because they are not of the world just as I and not of the world.

So let's think for a few moments about this hate that the world according to this text has for the followers of Jesus. Why? Why does the world hate the followers of Jesus?

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