Section 10
system, as part of Satan's system, is the world that will hate the disciples.
The religious world persecutes the people who follow the Lord in life because they, as the branches of the true vine, are one with the Lord, acting and doing things in the Lord's name. Be cause the religious people do not know the Fa ther who is the source of the Lord, they hate the Lord's true followers. Because the religious peo ple hate the Father in the Son (15:23), they also hate the Son's followers. This hating and perse cuting is their sin in the eyes of God (15:22, 24). By all of this we can see how evil religion is, even the religion formed according to God's Holy Word. Here we see the subtlety of the enemy in religion.
THE COMFORTER TESTIFYING
Verse 26 says, "But when the Comforter comes, Whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of reality Who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning Me." Religion persecutes, but the Spirit of reality testifies. The Holy Spirit is the reality of all things, and we are to be witnesses of the Spirit of reality.
In this verse the Lord said that He would send to the disciples the Spirit of reality. But in 14:26