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John 15:18-19
Excerpted from: Biblical LovesHe is telling them that the world has a form of phileo love which they give to one another because they have all kinds of things in common and the big thing that they have in common is that they do not follow Christ. They have rejected Him. Jesus calls them in another place, the dead, because they have no spiritual connection. But they love one another with phileo love because they love those who they are in fellowship with under this unspoken covenant of hating God.
You are not part of its group. You do not have much in common. There is no warmth there for you because you are actually a pawn, as they would look at it, of the enemy. You are alive. They can see that you are different. Whereas they are dead and they would rather commune with the dead, the other dead, those that are in their group. And because you are alive and you are making a witness and you are showing the love of God, hopefully, in the way you act out in the world, they hate you. The very opposite of phileo love. Because you do not look like them. You do not act like them. You do not think like them. Your aspirations are not like theirs. You live—hopefully you are living—over the sun lives rather than under the sun lives like they are.
The key here in verses 18 and 19 of John 15 is that the world would love its own. And since you do not have many things in common with the world anymore, it will not like you. So that calling that God made and your choice to accept, cut that relationship off with those people. We have little in common with them anymore, so the world hates us, rejects us, wants nothing to do with us.
So, Jesus here uses the word phileo to signify the affection, unity, and preference of those who are like whoever the person is doing the loving. So, it is the affection, unity, and preference of those who are similar to you. This works for us, it works for the world. We have love for one another because we are like each other. We have beliefs in common. We have come to the same decision on who we are going to follow and what our goal is. But out there, they love their own. And since the two groups rarely touch, there is hatred, between especially them toward us.
John 15:18-19
Excerpted from: Children of the LightThat is, you have been divinely called or favored and you have been approved by God because Jesus chose us. You are the chosen; He is talking about these people that possess these character traits are the chosen. And He says, "I've chosen you out of the world, and the world hates you for this."
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