John 15:19

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. IF YE WERE OF THE WORLD, THE WORLD WOULD LOVE HIS OWN: BUT BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THE WORLD, [ exelexameen (G1586 )], THEREFORE THE WORLD HATETH YOU. Here Jesus holds Himself forth as the Hated and Persecuted One; and this, not only as going before all His people in that respect, but as being the great Embodied Manifestation of that holiness which the world hates, and the Fountain of that hated state and character to all that believe in Him. From the treatment, therefore, which He met with they were not only to lay their account with the same, but be encouraged to submit to it, and cheered in the endurance of it, by t...

19._If you were of the world. _This is another consolation, that the reason why they are _hated by the world _is, that they have been separated from it. Now, this is their true happiness and glory, for in this manner they have been rescued from destruction. _But I have chosen you out of the world. To choose _means here _to separate _Now, if they were _chosen out of the world_, it follows that they were a part _of the world_, and that it is only by the mercy of God that they are distinguished from the rest who perish. Again, by the term, _the world_, Christ describes, in this passage, all who have not been regenerated by the Spirit of God; for he contrasts the Church with _the world_, as we shall see more fully under the seventeenth chapter. And yet this doctrine does not contradict the exhortation of Paul, Be at peace with all men, as far as lieth in you,

18-25 How little do many persons think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the one living and true God, whom they profess to worship! The name into which Christ's disciples were baptized, is that which they will live and die by. It is a comfort to the greatest sufferers, if they suffer for Christ's name's sake. The world's ignorance is the true cause of its hatred to the disciples of Jesus. The clearer and fuller the discoveries of the grace and truth of Christ, the greater is our sin if we do not love him and believe in him....

Verse John 15:19. _YE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD - THEREFORE_, c.] On this very account, because ye do not join in fellowship with those who know not God, therefore they hate you. How true is that saying:- "The laws of Christ _condemn_ a vicious world, And _goad_ it to _revenge_!" GAMBOLD....

IF YE WERE OF THE WORLD - If you were actuated by the principles of the world. If, like them, you were vain, earthly, sensual, given to pleasure, wealth, ambition, they would not oppose you. BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD - Because you are influenced by different principles from men of the world. You are actuated by the love of God and holiness; they by the love of sin. I HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THE WORLD - I have, by choosing you to be my followers, separated you from their society, and placed you under the government of my holy laws. THEREFORE ... - A Christian may esteem it as one evidence of his piety that he is hated by wicked men. Often most decided evidence is given that a man is the friend of God by the opposition excited against him by the profane, by Sabbath-breakers, and by the dissolute,...

EXPOSITION JOHN 15:1 (7) _The parable of the vine and its branches_._ Incorporation of the disciples into one personality with himself_._ _The image of the vine may have been suggested by some visible object. Either of the hypotheses of place would furnish a reminder of the nature and culture of the vine. Thus around the windows of the guest-chamber the vine may have thrown its tendrils, or on the slopes of Olivet the vineyards may have been prominent objects, or the burning heaps of vine-prunings may have suggested the idea. Again, if they were pausing in some apartments of the temple-court, the golden vine, the image of Israel, upon the gates may have supplied the point of departure. But our Lord needed no such help to his imagination, and it is by no means necessary to find an occasion for his imagery. The fact that

IF YE WERE OF THE WORLD,.... Belonged to the world, were of the same spirit and principles with it, and pursued the same practices: THE WORLD WOULD LOVE ITS OWN; for every like loves its like; the men of the world love each other's persons, company, and conversation: BUT BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD: once they were, being born into it, brought up in it, had their conversation among the men of it, were themselves men of carnal, worldly, principles and practices; but being called by Christ, and becoming his disciples, they were no more of it; and as he was not of the world, so they were not of it, though they were in it. The Jews distinguish the disciples of the wise men, from אינשי דעלמא, "the men of the world" u, pretending that they were not; but this is a character that only belongs to the disciples of Christ, in consequence of their being called by him out of it: BUT I HAVE CHOS...

John 15:1. _I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman._ Not only the Mosaic law, but the whole creation is full of types of Christ. All the vines that we see in this world are only as it were typical; but Christ is the substance,-the substance of nature as well as of grace: «I am the true vine,» and the real Husbandman, who watches over everything, who has the whole Church, yea, the whole universe, under his care, is the great Father: «My Father is the husbandman.» John 15:2. _Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:_ It has no right to be there, for it is not there by a vital union; it will only harbor mischief if it is allowed to remain, therefore let it be taken away; and taken away it certainly will be by the Husbandman who makes no mistakes....

THE WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (John 16:11); (John 16:33); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _ OUT OF THE WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...

CHAPTER 15 1. The Vine and the Branch. (John 15:1 .) 2. Communion with Him and its Conditions.(John 15:9 .) 3. Love One Another! and the Hatred of the World. (John 15:17 .) Israel is called a vine in the Old Testament (Psalms 80:8; Isaiah 5:1; Jeremiah 2:21; Hosea 10:1) and Christ here in this parable takes the place of Israel and is the true vine. His disciples are the branches. Is