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John 15:23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
15:24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. 15:25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'{Psalms 35:19; 69:4}

How does one hated another without cause, how does one hate a brother or sister without hating God? This is an important question because many profess Christian's hate unwittingly their fellowman. The hate fomented against the Christ was judge against what? Shockingly, the very laws of God that were good and righteous!

Ephesians 2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace.

What works did Christ do among the Jews that caused them to so totally misjudge the Christ? Simply put, the works of God's Holy Spirit, not works of law. You, see this is why they misjudged the Christ as wicked, because he was not doing what the Jews thought was righteous. Subsequently, if one appears not to obey the law, than they are wicked according to the law. But how does one judge a sinless man? Does a sinless man, need the Laws to convict him of sin? Did Adam need the Law of God to convict him of sin? In other words, did Adam receive a book of law from God, accusing him of wicked motives?

1Cor. 13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 13:6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 13:8 Love never fails.

Here the Jews had their world, sinners deserved to be judged by God's law, hence, sin is evil so the Jew's imputed first evil by the law allowing them to hate brothers and sisters. Such hatred was considered righteous hatred because it was from the Law condemning sins against the law. The question in context to Christ teachings is, how can we hate by judgment of law without hating ourselves as a sinner? In other words, if a person is a sinner they cannot not sin, and the law only points out sin in us than judging another sinner is judging ourself.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Romans 4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Hence, we have a dichotomy, an unobtainable situation, a death we cannot get out of. Moreover, a death we ourselves promote when judging from the Law of God. Now that Jew's hated Christ without cause, hence, by judging him by God righteous and good law, Christ forgave them. In fact, removed their sins if they put faith in his righteousness fulfilling the law. How can we not be hated if we live in Christ under the law of love, where the whole world judges by the very laws Christ completed and finished for us. We will be hated without cause if we walk in Spirit and truth, where Christ lived without sin? Although, we have been made sinless by Christ life, we still fall far short, of human judgments of us, let us not be naïve.

Romans 5:13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

Romans 5:20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly.

Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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