In Christ’s High Priestly prayer, we find that He has given us His Word that His joy might be complete in us. Immediately following this, we are told that His Word is also why the world will hate us. The fact that we can know the fullness of His joy while being hated by the world shows us that joy is independent of temporal circumstances. The joy of our blessed hope is more powerful than trials, tribulation and persecution. Our inheritance is preserved for us in heaven where neither the forces of darkness nor this hostile world can reach.
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Stan McGehee, Jr. is senior pastor of Living Word Community Church. Ordained in December of 1979, he holds a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary and a Masters of Theology from Tyndale Seminary. He has worked with his father at LWCC since the...