John 15:17-19
These things I command you, so that you will love one another. “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
The bible is our cosmic mirror. It tells us WHO we are IN CHRIST. He purchased our authority over this world. Much like neo in the. matrix, we need to know OUR POWER, by consulting the GUIDE