Our world and society has increasingly grown hostile toward God and the gospel. If we belong to the world, the world will love us as its own. But because we belong to Jesus, our world system hates us, because they first hated Him. Many who have gone before us have experienced persecution, even if we have not. Jesus warns His followers to expect the same. We should too. We also have a mandate to testify to our world, just as the Holy Spirit was sent to testify of Jesus.