John 15:21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
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Hate and persecution were shocking words Jesus used just a few verses ago to warn his followers what they might expect “on account of my name.” Those who used Jesus’s name as a confession of their faith needed courage. Jesus warned them they were marked as different, and a risk to the existing state of conformity, by those who “do not know him who sent me.” The acceptance of that risk with eyes wide open was the necessary seal of their identity as a follower of Christ within a world of conformity.
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