Daily Bread 7/15/2025

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Email from Abiding Place     Daily Bread – July 15, 2025 (The Third Day – Genesis 1:9-13) John 15:19 – If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. On account of this, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. The World Hates Us Like It Hates Jesus We must recognize that God has made us His dwelling place, and demands for us to remain unspotted from the world (John 14:23; James 1:27). To be a friend to the world is an act of hostility against God, and it makes a person an enemy of God (James 4:4). It is absolutely essential we see the world for what it really is – the kingdom of darkness! We are the children of God, the holy ones in light. If we have any fellowship with darkness and say we know God, then we are liars and do not do the truth (1 John 1:6). Even as light does not dwell with darkness, no more can the saints of God dwell in the spirit of the world. If you do, then a compromise has taken place that threatens your very existence (Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 6:17). The world is under the control of the powers of darkness and is governed by the spirit of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2; 2 Corinthians 4:4). Jesus testified against the world, proving how the world loves darkness (John 3:19). It is the world that hates Jesus (John 7:7). Jesus told the religious leaders governed by the world they were of their father, the devil. He said, “You are from beneath, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world” (John 8:23). The world does not know Jesus or the Father. Therefore, it does not know those who are born of Him and belong to the realm of the Kingdom of God. The world hates us just like it hates Jesus because it is governed by sin and death (John 15:19, 17:14; Romans 5:12). The spirit of the world is the antithesis of the Spirit of God and is a synonym for that which is fleshly, and thus, opposed to God and all of His ways (1 Corinthians 2:12; Galatians 5:17; Romans 8:9,1, 8:16; John 3:6). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen