title of this message, Hated
for Christ's Sake. It's sad that there is such a
title. To even have to think that you
would title something Hated for Christ's Sake. Our Lord has been instructing
his disciples And in instructing them, he is instructing us also
in this day. He told them in chapter 14, let
not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not
so, I would have told you. I go and prepare a place for
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I'll come again
and receive you to myself, that where I am there you may be also.
First thing he did was encourage them. He encouraged them. He told them that he was the
way, the truth, and the life, that he's the way to the father.
No man comes to the father but by him. He instructs them that
the Holy Spirit will come, the spirit of comfort. He will not
leave them comfortless. That when he goes back to the
father, he will send the spirit and he will dwell with him forever. He tells them that he's the vine
and they are the branches. He speaks of his love to them
and his word abiding in them and he and his father abiding
in them. And then he comes to this part.
He's not gonna speak to them about how successful they're
gonna be. Peter, in a few days, 3,000 people are gonna believe
when you preach. Wouldn't it be something if I
preached today and 3,000 people believed? and filled this place
up, that'd be something. But he's not gonna talk to them
about that. He's gonna talk to them about what they're about
to face. You see, he has shielded them for three years. For three
years, they followed him. They forsook all and followed
him. And basically, the Lord shielded them because all the
controversy was around him. It was all centered on him. But
when he goes back to glory, where he came from, when he goes back
there, now it's going to be turned on them. You see, they can't
get to him now, so what they're going to do, they're going to
get to his children, his disciples, his servants. The same hatred
The same hatred that they expressed against Christ when he was here
walking in the flesh is going to be the same hatred of the
world that's going to be expressed toward them. They're not going
to love them. You know, the first time I heard
the gospel, the place I was going, I went, I mean, I thought I had,
I had found it. I had found the pearl of great
price. I have found the savior. And I went and told them about
it. And the pastor of that church got angry with me. They had what
they're called a revival service, and the first thing the man said,
stood in that pulpit, he said, I understand we have a Calvinist
in our midst. Oh, what you have in your midst
is a believer, one that believes God, that's what you have. And
the hatred was expressed, it came out. A division was there,
I couldn't stay, I had to leave. And he's warning them that this
hatred that is in the heart of all men and women. It was in
our heart at one time also. You see, all are born spiritually
dead to God. I was born dead to God, my parents
were born dead to God, my sons were born dead to God, my grandchildren
born dead to God, everyone born spiritually dead to God. They don't have the life of God.
The life of God is on another level, infinite level, compared
to the life of this flesh, this human life, life that we have.
All come from the womb, scripture says, speaking lies. We lie from
the start. Let God be true and every man
a liar. I've never told a lie. You're lying. You're lying. I saw this on TV. This is one
program Vicki watches all the time. I can't remember the name
of it now. But anyway, one of the questions at the end of it
was, what percentage of children lie? This woman from India, she
had his red spot on her head, so she's from India. She goes,
40%. 40%. And then the next one they asked, he said, the man,
he said, Well, the survey was 100%. The survey got it right, they
got it wrong. And she went, I mean her face
was just like, what? My children lie? That means my
children lie. Yeah, your children lie. You
lie to them and they lie to you. You tell them how good they are,
that's a lie. That's a lie. They think you're something else,
well that's a lie. You're both lying to each other. God said
there's none good, no, not one. Now, if you don't like that,
take it up with him. He's the one who sees the heart,
I don't. I can't see your heart. I don't even know my own. The
heart is deceitful above all things, desperately wicked, who
could know it? It'll fool you, your own heart, that old heart
you're born with, it'll fool you. But listen, there are some whom God's going
to save. He's gonna save some sinners. He's gonna save some
liars. He's gonna save some. And when he does this, this enmity
that you and I were born with is gone between us and God. But now there's an enmity between
us and the world. Now there's hostility between
us and the world. As Paul said, I'm crucified to
the world, the world's crucified to me. I have nothing for the
world, and the world has nothing for me. We have nothing in common
no more. Not anymore. You see, we are gonna be hated
because of our union to the vine. Christ said, I'm the vine, you're
the branches. There's a union there. The branch grows out of
the vine. And because of your union to me, the world will hate
you. Now that's a strong word. That's
a strong word. but he's saying that the world
will hate you. Now, I want you to notice in
verse 17, he commands, he commands them to love one another. He
said, these things I command you that you love one another.
You see, our love, our love, the love of God's shed abroad
in the heart, we do love one another, but our love in this
life's not perfect. It's not perfect. We get upset with one
another, don't we? Paul had to rebuke Peter at one
time. You know that story. He had to
rebuke Peter. Now they gonna fall out? Paul
and Barnabas did fall out over John Mark. And he's saying here
to all his children, but especially to his ministers, he's saying
to them, don't be divided. And there's only one thing that's
gonna keep you and me from being divided. One thing, love. Love will overcome our divisions.
Now, we're not talking about divided over the gospel. We know
that. Because if you believe another gospel, we're going to
be divided. But over things that really don't matter, we're not
going to be divided. He said, trouble's going to come,
the world's going to hate you, but you don't turn on one another. There's going to be tares among
the wheat. There's going to be goats among the sheep, and they're
going to cause trouble. And they're going to try to turn
you on one another. Satan's subtle. He's subtle. He causes division. He tries
to cause division among the sheep. And one of the things the Lord
tells them is, I command you to love one another. It comes
up several times throughout the Gospels, that you love one another.
You go read 1 John, that you love one another. This is how
you're known. This is how you're known, you're
the Lord's people, that you love one another. That's how you know. And it's sad that we've gotta
be commanded to do that, isn't it? It's sad that, you know,
nobody, no one in heaven right now, in God's praise, has to
be commanded to love one another. You know, not there, but here
we do. Here we do. Our Lord gives this to them because
he knows what's coming. They don't know what's coming
yet. They don't know it. They don't see what's coming
down the road. He does. You're going to be martyred. Peter, you're going to be crucified
upside down. Some of you are going to be beheaded.
They were all martyred. I'm not sure about John, if he
was actually martyred or not. Some say he boiled in oil. I
don't know. I don't know. But they were martyred. And there have been many believers
over the years that have been martyred. Men and women have
been burned at the stake, beheaded, fed to the wild beast there in
Rome. They've been martyred for Christ's sake. For Christ's sake. Hated for Christ's sake. We don't
preach a popular gospel. I told a man very close to me,
I said, you and I don't believe, after we had a discussion over
the gospel, I said, we don't believe the same gospel. We don't
believe the same gospel. We don't believe the same God.
We don't. It's two different gospels. One's
of works, one's all of grace. One's all of God, one's partly
of God, one's partly of man, which is all works. Any gospel
that says you do this and God will do that, that's not of God.
That's not of God. That's another gospel. And he says here in verse 18,
you're going to experience this hatred that I have been experiencing.
And they watched him for three years. They saw this hatred come
out. They saw the Pharisees wanting to kill him and throw him over
the edge, headlong down the hill. They knew that. They knew the
Pharisees hated him. He said, now you're going to
experience this hatred. You're going to experience it. If the
world hates you, don't be confused. Don't be upset. Don't be bewildered. Don't do that, because you know
it hated me before it hated you. You're really not the object
of the hate. It's him. It's your union to
him. He's the object. All John Bunyan
had to do was deny the gospel and they let him out of jail.
That's all he had to do. He was put in jail because of
the gospel he believed, because of his union to Christ, his connection
to Christ. The world hates you if you belong
to the Lord Jesus Christ, if you're his. Whoever bears the
image of Christ will be hated by the world. They hate that
image. They hate it. Let us make man
in our image and after our likeness, God said in the beginning. You
know, when God saved you, he did that. What's going on right
now with you? Who believes? You're being conformed
to the image of Christ. And the more you are conformed
to that image, the more the hatred of this world will come out on
you. Because you bear his image. You not only bear his image,
you bear up his name. You lift up his name. You magnify
his name. You glorify his name. And when
you do that, it condemns the world. And the world hates that.
Nobody likes to be condemned. Nobody. Not human nature. They
don't like that. Cain hated Abel. Didn't he? He killed him. He
murdered him. That's how much he hated him. Esau hated Jacob. He said, I'm gonna kill him.
I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill him. Only God kept him from
it. Joseph's brethren hated him. They wanted to kill him. Saul
hated David. We have so many examples in the
scriptures of God's children being hated by the world. The
world has hated Christ and his own since the fall. Don't be discouraged when the
world hates you. Rejoice, actually rejoice that
you bear the image of Christ. But this hatred, listen, this
hatred of Christ really came out when he came in the flesh. They fulfilled that scripture
that said, come, this is the heir, let us kill him. This is
the heir, let us kill him and seize his inheritance. The way
Christ was treated, In this flesh is exactly how the world thinks
of him. It's exactly. One preacher said,
if I'd have been there, I would have stopped it. I think it was
Rex Humbart said that, that I would have stopped it. No, you'd have
been there driving the nails. You'd have said, let me have
a swing at him. You'd have took the whip, said, let me have a
stroke at him. Our Lord, listen, our Lord puts
things as they are. He tells us the truth. If it
were not so, he said to his disciples in John 14, if it were not so,
I would have told you. And so what he tells us, this
is how it really is. All God has to do for you and
I to really see what the world is, and we know it because he's
let us see ourselves. But all he has to do is draw
his hand back. All he has to do is draw sovereign constraint
back. You'd see a world, you think it's bad now? It would
be unbelievable if God pulled back his hand of restraint. The
wrath of man shall praise him and the rest he will restrain.
The whole human race is under the sovereign constraint of God. while he's sending the gospel
out and saving his people. Multitude of sinners, the scripture
says, no man can number. Christ said, you have given me
power. In John 17, he said, you have given me power over all
flesh, that I should give eternal life to as many as thou hast
given me. You've given me power over all flesh to restrain all
flesh, to control it, but also he's given him power over my
flesh, that he might break me, lay me in the dust, and save
my soul. Aren't you glad God has given
him power over you? Or you and I wouldn't believe
at all. We'd be religious, but we wouldn't be here. And the
gospel wouldn't be here. We might be here, but the gospel
wouldn't be, that's for sure. Now this world he's speaking
of here is not just the secular world, it's especially the religious
world. Our Lord was hated by the Pharisees
and the scribes and the religion of that day. He was hated by
them more than anybody else, more than anyone else. No one,
I've never had anyone that's just a natural scoundrel, and
I have spoken the gospel to, and I have talked about God's
sovereignty. I've never had any of them ever get so mad as the
ones who claim to believe the gospel and don't. The ones who
get so mad at me are the ones who have a false refuge, a false
hope, and a false Christ. When you tell them the truth,
they want to cut your head off. I mean, I've seen them mad enough
to fight. They are the ones who hate Christ.
Just tell these religious world, in this whole community here,
tell those preachers. I told one in this community,
called me. And they wanted to use this facility
on Wednesday night, because we have it on Thursday night. And
I told him he couldn't do it. And he said, why? I said, because
we don't preach the same gospel. He was mad. He got mad and hung
up on me. We had a short conversation, but I told him, I said, we don't
preach the same gospel, same God, and he was mad. He talked about people, his relatives
that came here, and I said, no, ain't nobody gonna stand in this
pulpit that preaches another gospel. All you gotta do is tell
the truth, and you'll find out. You'll find out where that hatred
is. You'll find out. If you were of the world, listen,
the world would love his own. The world loves its own kind.
I saw on a nature program on television here some time ago,
and this big grizzly mama bear was laid on her back in the snow
with two little cubs nursing. And she actually had her arms
like this around holding him. You think she'd hold me like
that? She would eat me alive if I came in the picture. You
know, a rattlesnake can have its little ones and they just
be all in the den together, but you let me crawl in that den. No, if you're of the world. Now
that word, listen, that word of, you know what the word of
here means? A part of the whole. If you were a part of the whole
world, if you were still a part of it, they'd love you. They'd
invite you to dinner. They'll invite you to do this,
do that, but you're not of the world, and they ain't gonna call
on you no more. He said they're gonna hate you. They will hate
you. If you're of the spirit of the world and the same interest
of the world, he said the world would love you. It would love
you, it'd receive you. But, in contrast to what was
just said, you're not of the world, you're not a part of the
whole no more. But I've chosen you out of the world, therefore
the world hates you. You notice here how election relates to
the hatred of God's people? The one thing that will absolutely
bring it out is just talk about God's electing grace. The Lord said, I'll have mercy
on whom I'll have mercy, and whom I will, I'll harden. God
said that. When you bring out God's electing
grace, there's election according to grace. There's a remnant chosen
of God according to grace. That's, he said, what makes them
mad. When you take sovereignty out
of the hands of men, put it back into the hands of God, he said,
they'll hate you for it. They'll hate you for it. When
God's sovereignty is proclaimed in salvation, men hate. That's
when that hate comes out. Sovereignty in creation, that's
all right. That's all right. That's not a big deal. Even sovereignty
in providence. They can live with it. But God
saving this one and passing by that one, that's too hard. That's too hard
on human nature. But it's true. It's true. I don't care how hard it is,
it's true. That's not fair. You tell me
how someone who's steeped in sin and darkness can determine
what's fair and what's not. Salvation is not based on fair,
it's based on God's sovereignty. God has every right to open the
cell and say, come out of there, pull you out of there, draw you
out of there, and leave the other one there
who doesn't want to come out. Whosoever will, let him take
of the water life freely. If God leads you to your will
and my will, we will not come to him. We won't do it. We will not do it. Because we
love sin rather than light. We drink iniquity like water.
That's the truth. And he said, when you preach
this, the hatred, hatred is gonna come out. And the core of this
controversy, whatever men pretend, here's the ground of it, they
hate Christ's disciples because they bear his name. in his image. In 1 Peter 4, 14, if you be reproached
for the name of Christ, happy are you. Now if you be reproached
because of your own attitude, you deserve it, I deserve it.
But if I'm reproached for the name of Christ, happy, happy,
happy, happy. You know the disciples one time
went away rejoicing because they were worthy to be beaten for
the name of Christ. Now he says here, remember, remember,
and that's back in chapter 13, verse 16, when he washed the
disciples' feet. He says, you do as I say. You do this as I've done. Remember
the word that I said to you, the service not greater than
his Lord. That's what he said back in verse 16 of chapter 13
when he washed their feet. If they persecuted me, they'll
persecute you. If they keep my sayings, they'll
keep yours. You see, the hatred is toward
Christ. You're just in the way. You bear
his image, but the hatred is toward him. If Christ was hated
and persecuted, he said, you will be too. You will be too. The world's attitude hasn't changed.
Education, the day we're living in, this day of real enlightenment,
it hasn't changed human nature. It hasn't changed it. It's the
same. Education hasn't done away with
the enmity that's in the heart of every man and woman against
God. It hasn't done away with that. Just tell a man the truth and
you'll find out. You'll find out. But all these things, and he's
warning them, and he's warning us. You tell the truth, this
is what's gonna happen. From the world, it's from the
world. All these will they do to you for my name's sake, they're
doing it because of me. It's their hatred of me. If Jesus
Christ, right now, came into this world in the flesh like
he did 2,000 years ago, they'd crucify him again. If he were
over in Jerusalem, they'd crucify him again. They would. He's no more loved now than he
was then. He's just as hated now as he was then, except for
those whom he saves and the love of God is shed abroad in their
hearts. God has to enable us to love him, to love him, in
order to do it. These things are gonna do to
you for my name's sake. And here's why, because they
know not him to send ignorance. Spiritual darkness. Spiritual
darkness. Men don't know God. You know,
the Pharisees say, God is our father. He said, no, the devil's
your father. The devil's your father. And
the works of your father, you'll do. If I had not come, now listen,
here's something serious. Hearing the gospel is dead serious. If I had not come and spoken
to them, he said, the scripture says, he came to his own, his
own received him not. Christ came to the Jews as it was promised,
he came and proclaimed the gospel, they rejected him. He came in
the fulfillment of the scriptures, they rejected him. He spoke of
what the father gave him, he said, as I hear I speak, and
they rejected him. They rejected him. He said, if
I hadn't have come and done this, they'd had no sin. That is, they
would have no excuse. The greater judgment has fallen
upon those who sit under the gospel and they reject Christ. He said, they don't have any
excuse for it. They've been enlightened. They have no excuse. But now
they have no cloak, no covering, no excuse for their sin of rejection,
their sin of unbelief. They have no excuse for it. It's
been laid out. You know, the Lord said, down
here in verse 24, if I had not done among them the works which
none other man did. Earlier he spoke, he said, if
I had not spoken to them, if I had not done the work, he spoke
the gospel to them. And then he turned around and
he raised the dead, gave sight to the blind. The lame was able
to walk. He fed 5,000. He did all these
miracles. They saw them. They have no excuse
to deny him. When I read that, I thought of Caiaphas, the high priest. I
thought when that man died, when that man died, the first thing
he saw, the first one he saw was Jesus Christ. And he knew he had no excuse.
All these miracles that were done, he knew about them, saw
some of them. He heard the Lord speak. And that will be to everyone
who has sat under the gospel and then turned and walked away.
Turn and walk away. Christ says they have no excuse.
They have no cloak, no covering for their sin of unbelief. But
this has come to pass. This has come to pass. As all
the word of God is, he said, this has come to pass that the
word might be fulfilled there in verse 25, written in their
law, they hated me without a call, it came to pass. You know, God
foretells us what's coming to pass. And whatever he says is
coming to pass, it's coming to pass. is coming to pass. They hated me without a cause. The Lord never ever gave them
a cause to hate him. He never did. Our Lord came and
fulfilled the redemptive will of God. He spoke the truth to
them and they hated him for it. And it's no less today. It's
no less today. It's not a big difference today. People say they don't hate Jesus
Christ. I guarantee you, you can go through
this community. I mean, you can go talk to the
ones that don't believe anything. You can talk to anybody and say,
do you hate Jesus Christ? They'll say no. I don't hate
him. Well, first of all, there is
no indifference to Christ. There's no indifference to him.
We either love him or hate him. Christ said, he that is not for
me is against me. He's standing against me. You
see, hate is shown in different ways other than trying to rip
someone's head off. You know, it comes out in different
ways. You know, not to acknowledge a person, to turn your back on
someone, is saying, I wish you were dead. It's the same as saying, I wish
you were dead, you didn't exist. Hate comes out in different ways. And our Lord never gave them
a reason to hate him, but they did. because of that natural
hostility men are born with, men and women are born with.
This hatred comes out from within. It says in Romans 8, 7, because
a carnal mind is enmity, hostile against God. It is not subject
to the law of God, neither indeed can be. We're natural born enemies. Inbred hatred. That's what it
is. He was hated because of his message
over in John 840. But now you seek to kill me,
a man that had told you the truth. I told you the truth and you
want to kill me. Paul said, the more I love, the
less I am loved. The more I love, the more I tell
you the truth. I want you to hear the truth.
He said, the less I'm loved. People, they took him out and
stoned him, left him for dead. I mean, he was beaten. It's that natural inbred enmity
that comes out. He was hated for preaching God's
sovereignty and salvation. The Jews, listen, the Jews didn't
want us Gentiles to be saved no more than Jonah wanted the
Ninevites to be saved. Jonah didn't want those Ninevites
to be saved. That's why he didn't want to go to Nineveh. He didn't
want to go to Nineveh, not because he's afraid. He wasn't afraid
of the Ninevites. He didn't want God to save him.
He knew God was a merciful God. He said, I knew you were merciful. They would have thrilled him
to sit up on the hill and watch them burn. It's like asking a Jew to go preach
the gospel to Hitler. That's how he felt about Nineveh. God's sovereign in salvation.
You know when they wanted to kill the Lord, I'm gonna show
you this. Turn over to Luke chapter four, and I'm gonna wind this
down, but Luke chapter four. Let me show you this hatred over
God's sovereignty in Luke chapter four. Luke chapter four, look in verse
25, and we'll read 25 through 32. But I tell you of a truth, the
Lord speaking. Many widows were in Israel in
the days of Elijah, Elias, when the heaven was shut up three
years, six months. Great famine was throughout all
the land, but unto none of them was Elijah sent, save unto Sarepta,
a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow, a Gentile woman.
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus, the prophet,
and none of them was cleansed save Naaman, the Gentile, Syrian. And all they in the synagogue,
when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. All in the synagogue, all those
Jews in the synagogue were filled with wrath. And they rose up
and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of
the hill. They had a hold of him. They had a hold of him and
they grabbed him and they took him to the brow of the city.
The brow of the hill whereupon the city was built and that they
might cast him down headlong, but he passing through the midst
of them went his way. He just slipped from them and
they didn't even recognize him as he walked out. Most people
don't recognize Christ when he's preached. But he passing through
went through the midst of them and came down to Capernaum, a
city of Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath day. And they
were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was with power.
But what made them so mad in that synagogue? God passed by
all those Jews and went to Gentiles. And it
was like, He was like, you serious? You
serious? He passed by us and went to those
dogs, and he saved those dogs. He had mercy on those dogs. He
sent his prophet, Elijah, to a dog's house instead of our
house. Sovereignty, divine sovereignty
made him mad. You want to know whether someone
preaches or believes the gospel? when God's divine sovereignty
and salvation is expressed, preached. They either love him or they
hate him. That's when you'll find out. He preached, listen, he preached
redemption, righteousness, salvation by grace alone, through faith
alone, in him alone, not by inheritance. We be Abraham's seed, well, so
what? That's not gonna get it. It's
by grace alone, in Christ alone. They hated him for the company
he kept. This man, Edith, was sinners, publicans and sinners.
He eats with them. He shouldn't do that. That's
why Peter got up when the church came down and visited there,
and Paul came down with them from Jerusalem, and Peter was
sitting there with those Gentiles, and he saw those Gentiles, and
he jumped up and went over with them and had nothing to do with
those Gentiles. That's when Paul called him out. Because that spirit of self-righteousness,
publicans and sinners, harlots, harlots. God's not in the business of
saving good people. He's in the business of saving the worst
of the worst. Lord, be merciful to me, the
sinner. No one has ever been more hated
than the Lord Jesus Christ, despised and rejected of men. But our Lord says here, and I'm
gonna close. He says, listen, but you're not alone. You're
gonna be hated, you're gonna be cast out, you're gonna be,
all these things are gonna be done to you for my name's sake,
but you're not alone. When the comforters come, the
comforter. Doesn't that sound good? He's
going to comfort you. In the midst of trials, in the
midst of heartaches, in the midst of all this hatred, in the midst
of this ungodly world, the comforter is going to come, whom I'm going
to send to you even in the spirit of truth, which proceeds from
the Father. He'll testify of me. He's testifying
of Christ this morning. Do you find comfort in this?
It's a tough message. He said the world's going to
hate you. But there's a real comfort in that. You're not of
the world, that's why they hate you. You belong to me, that's
why they hate you. It's the work of God the Holy
Spirit to comfort those whom the Lord saves, those sinners.
And he does so by testifying of Christ and yet brings you
comfort. The Holy Spirit's gonna take
the things of Christ, the wisdom, righteousness, justification,
redemption, substitution, satisfaction, adoption, eternal life. He's
gonna take all those things of Christ, and he's gonna reveal
them to chosen sinners, and you're gonna find comfort in that. In
the midst of this ungodly, God-hating world, this world hates God. That's the truth. That's the
truth. But you're not gonna be alone.
I'm not gonna leave you comfortless. I'm not gonna leave you on your
own. The Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth is gonna come and he's
gonna be in you. And he's gonna testify of me,
take the things of mine, show it to you, and he's gonna comfort
you with the things of mine. He's gonna comfort you with me.
He's not gonna leave you alone. And you also are gonna bear witness
because you've been with me from the beginning. You know the word
there, bear witness, means martyr. That's where we get the word
martyr. Christ's witnesses are men and
women who, like the apostles, lay down their lives for Christ's
sake. Christ is my life. I have no
reason to exist apart from him. I don't exist for myself. I don't
exist for my own pleasure. My own comfort, I exist for him.
And he's given me a lot of comfort and a lot of pleasures in this
life. He has. Once I was playing golf with
Paul Mayhem. We were playing golf on a beautiful
golf course, Bryan Park, I believe it was. And I never thought of
this before until Paul said it. And Paul said, you know, this
is for us. This is for us. They get to use
it, but it's for us. And I enjoyed golf that day probably
more than I've ever enjoyed it because I saw it in a different
light. This is for us. They get blessings from it, they
get to use it, but this is for us. In this God-hating world,
we still find comfort and pleasure because the Lord gives it to
us and he comforts us with his word. I would be disturbed now
if the world desired my presence. If the world wanted me, that
would trouble me. It would, it would trouble me. I'm not saying
I'm troubled because they're not shooting through my door,
but who knows what's coming? I'm telling you. And the day
we live in, the way things are changing, the church has had
it comfortable for so long. Zion has been at ease for so
long. That hatred may yet come out
real strong again. I look forward to it.