JESUS KEEP ME NEAR THE CROSS song by E-Rod

"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." -John 15:18,19

The unsaved world has always hated Christians. We are hated because we have Christ's Spirit within us, "...Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his" -Romans 8:9. The world hated Jesus with a passion, so much that they murdered Him upon a cross. We read in Acts 7:58-59, "And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." No wonder Paul the Apostle (formerly Saul) said that he was the chief of sinners, for it was the same Saul mentioned in the verses we just read. Paul was a murderer of Christians before he became saved. This is proof that anyone can be saved, no matter what they have done. The only unpardonable sin is to reject Jesus as Saviour. To reject Jesus is to blaspheme Christ's Spirit (Romans 8:9-11).