Jesus 1-2 Research Paper

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Due to my working hours, l can’t be there when my son’s come home from school, so my wife will have them call me at work shortly after they arrive. When my son’s and I converse generally we talk about the events of their day. recently my oldest son (13) calls and tells me of a bully who has called him names and my son is asking what he should do, how should he respond? It was during this conversation that the words of Jesus from John 15 ran through my mind:
18 “If the world hates you, [e]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.19 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. 20 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;
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I remember telling him as a new Christian that he would face hardships and I referenced John 15: 18-20 also he must endure those hardships as a good soldier of Jesus Christ 2Timothy 2:3,4. I remember instructing him that being a Christian is not an easy walk and that he will have trouble.
The multitude may tell you “give your life to Christ and everything will be alright, no more trouble, no more worries Jesus will tend to it

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