Why the world hates Christians

“If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” John 15:19
In this post on John 8:23 we saw how Jesus declared that He was “not of this world”, ‘the world’ referring to the mindset of the world at large. We also know from John 17:14 that, if we have been born again, we too are not of the world – although we are still in it. We used to be of the world – following its ways (Col. 3:7). We were travelling the broad road towards the wide gate (Matt. 7:13-14). So how did we come to be loosed from that bondage?
The reason is this: that Jesus chose us and called us out of the world. To the world’s mindsets, we are traitors. We are no longer doing the ‘cool’ thing in rebelling against God, but have submitted to Him. This is why the world hates Christianity. The fact that the world hates us, shows that we don’t belong in it; we don’t belong in it because we have been born again by God’s Spirit.
But we are not alone; nor are we in the minority. With God on our side, we are in the majority. He already has the victory. Jesus has overcome the world (John 16:33) - and so have we, if we are in Him.