A Question of Belonging — Part Two
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A Question of Belonging — Part Two

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As we sit in the church pew week after week, we’re faced with the same question: Will we choose to believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Alistair Begg explains that if we choose willful unbelief, we will have no excuse on judgment day. If we believe, though, the Holy Spirit will come and guide us into all truth.


The Hatred of the World

18d“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19eIf you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because fyou are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you: g‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, hthey will also persecute you. iIf they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21But jall these things they will do to you kon account of my name, lbecause they do not know him who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, mthey would not have been guilty of sin,2 but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23nWhoever hates me hates my Father also. 24oIf I had not done among them the works that no one else did, mthey would not be guilty of sin, but now they have pseen and hated both me and my Father. 25But qthe word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: r‘They hated me without a cause.’

26“But swhen the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, the will bear witness about me. 27And uyou also will bear witness, vbecause you have been with me wfrom the beginning.

1“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2xThey will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, ythe hour is coming when zwhoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3And they will do these things abecause they have not known the Father, nor me. 4But bI have said these things to you, that when ctheir hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, dbecause I was with you.

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Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.