The Power of Privilege

John 15 is the passage in which James Jesus famously promises again and again and again I am the vine you are the branches. After all that stuff about vines and branches Jesus goes on so look at John 15 beginning with verse 18 Jesus says this if the world hates you keep in mind it hated me first If you belong to the world it would love you as its own as it is but I have chosen you out of the world, he writes.