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1 John 3:13
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Do not marvel as if something unexpected had happened, nor take offence at the cost of discipleship. Cain’s murder of his brother is not a unique event, but springs out of the relation between the church and the world. What we experience is largely inevitable, for if hatred comes to us when we do the very thing that God has commanded us to do, and if the righteousness we are to pursue itself provokes the world to hate us, we cannot avoid their hatred without denying our heavenly calling.
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Hatred is painful to bear and we search to see how we might have caused it. Whilst we are to do nothing to provoke the world to hate us and to be strictly honest about this, we must maintain a healthy indifference with regard to its attitude towards us, even when it is expressed with all the intensity of hatred. In this, the Christian judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man (1 Corinthians 2:15).
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