John 15:18-27 What It Means To Identify With Jesus

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.  If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.  Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.  But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.  He who hates Me hates My Father also.If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’“When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,  and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

This is the progression of Jesus Christ: Jesus, who is the Living Word, was send by the Father.  Jesus and the Father indwell each other and are One.  Jesus chose disciples who became apostles after Jesus's ascension and they wrote the Bible (God's Word) which is the Written Word and they gave it to the world.
We who are Christians have received the Word and are related to the apostles and Jesus by it.  Those who became Christians did so because they identified with Jesus and were called out of the world.  Jesus is the Shepherd of those who are His and Satan controls those in the world who were not called.  Those who follow Satan acquire his judgment and those who are called by Jesus by believing in Him are spared judgment and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.

Daily Prayer:  I am thankful for all of eternity for being chosen by the Living Word.  I have not strength or wisdom of my own by in Christ Jesus, I can do anything through the One who strengthens me.  In Jesus name I pray Amen.