In Worldly Love

John 15:18-25

If you are hated by the world,
Then the world hates Christ;
As the plan of God is unfurled,
A rationale of being sacrificed.

But if you were of this earth,
The world would love its own;
With no time to honor His birth,
Or to pay homage at His throne.

Remember that a servant is not,
Ever greater than his true Lord;
Remember what you been taught,
And keep abiding in His Word.

Those who persecute each one,
Do it without knowing of God;
Not knowing of sin they done,
False idols they honor and laud.

Hating of Christ hates our Father,
As it is written within the Law;
So having no love for either,
Shall perish with their flaw.

Richard Newton Sherrer

Copyright ©2005 Richard Newton Sherrer

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