📖 I have given and delivered to them Your word (message) and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world [do not belong to the world], just as I am not of the world.
I do not ask that You will take them out of the world, but that You will keep and protect them from the evil one.
They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), [just] as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy] by the Truth; Your Word is Truth.
Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
—John 17:14-18 AMPC
We are to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth. God never intended for us to blend in with the world. He doesn’t expect the world to love us. In fact, Jesus is telling us to expect the world not to like us because we do not belong to the world, just as He did not belong to the world. We are ambassadors of Heaven. God has sent us into the world, and we have been given the ministry of reconciliation. We are to tell the world how much God loves them. We are to tell people about Jesus, and our lifestyle should demonstrate a difference. How we talk should show that there is a difference. We have been separated through the Word. We cannot let God down; we are all He has in the earth.
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