Bearing Witness to a Hostile World - John 15:26-16:4

Last week Jesus shared an uncomfortable truth with His disciples. The world would hate them and persecute them and really there was nothing they could do about it! They will be hated because the world hates Jesus and does not know the Father. In light of this uncomfortable truth, Jesus will now describe how His disciples should respond. As always, His desired response from the disciples is only possible through divine enablement. Once again, Jesus will mention divine “intake” before He describes desired behavioral “outflow.”