Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard Sunday, December 12,

John 15:18-21 Obstructions to Divine Good Production: Reason #1: Satan’s Cosmic System hates the believer! Reason #2: We are not of this world-Election out from the World! Reason #3: “The servant is not greater than his Lord,” therefore we too will have persecutions! Reason #4: “The Cosmos does not know God and is ignorant to His Plan.” John 15:18-21 Obstructions to Divine Good Production: Reason #1: Satan’s Cosmic System hates the believer! Reason #2: We are not of this world-Election out from the World! Reason #3: “The servant is not greater than his Lord,” therefore we too will have persecutions! Reason #4: “The Cosmos does not know God and is ignorant to His Plan.”

John 15:22-25 Obstructions to Divine Good Production: Reason #5, Vs 22 - Their Old Sin Nature is exposed. Reason #6, Vs The world hates God the Father just as it hates God the Son. Reason #7, Vs 25 - The fulfilment of Old Testament prophesy. John 15:22-25 Obstructions to Divine Good Production: Reason #5, Vs 22 - Their Old Sin Nature is exposed. Reason #6, Vs The world hates God the Father just as it hates God the Son. Reason #7, Vs 25 - The fulfilment of Old Testament prophesy.

Reason #6, The world hates God the Father just as it hates God the Son.

John 15:23, “He who hates Me, also hates (keeps on hating) My Father.”

John 15:24, “If I had not done the works among (in the presence of) them which no one else did, they would not have (this category of) sin. But now they have both seen and hated not only Me but also My Father.”

Principles: 1. Jesus pointed to “the works” as evidence of His identity. The works He did were prophesied of the Messiah in the Law and the Prophets.

2. His messianic credentials were presented, but the Jews rejected their validity.

a. His enemies had heard His words and had witnessed His supporting miracles. Their reaction against Him could not have been attributed to ignorance. They are without excuse.

3. Passages in which Jesus stressed His works as a beginning for belief in Him and His message include, John 5:36; 10:37-38; 14:10-11.

John 5:36, “But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me.”

John 10:37-38, “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

4. This is a statement of total hatred and total rejection of the Plan of God on the part of the KOSMOS system.

5. Jesus Christ is the primary target, and they keep on hating Him.

6. Since God the Father sent the Son, hatred of the Son is hatred of the Father.

7. Likewise, they hate the Father because Christ reveals Him, John 14:9.

8. The revelation in Jesus and by Jesus is so tied to the Father that to hate Jesus is to hate God.

9. Jesus is the revelation of the Father. If a person does not like what he sees when he views Christ, he will have no love for the Son or the Father.

10. The Son’s nature is the Father’s nature. To love the nature of one is to love the nature of the other.

11. To dishonor Christ is to dishonor the Father, John 5:23.

John 5:23, “So that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.”

12. The coming of Christ has revealed the weight of sin on those who reject Him.

13. Rejection of the Son is rejection of the Father’s Plan and the Father’s grace.

14. The KOSMOS system hates the Father and the Son and it will try to distort the ministry of the Holy Spirit in this intensified period of the Angelic Conflict.

Grace Offering

Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, December 12, 2010 Tape # Obstructions to Divine Good Production, Part 31 The World Hates God the Father Upper Room Discourse, Part 450 John 15:22; 5:23, 36; 10:37-38; 14:9-11 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2010