To commemorate the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, we present to you a special video from Voice of the Martyrs, featuring a couple showing the light of Christ in a highly dangerous region in the Congo. Then, Pastor Troy Billow will expound on what Jesus means when He said that "the world hates you." Being hated by the world goes with the calling of following Jesus Christ. This hatred is a supernatural hatred, and the world hates followers of Jesus Christ because God has CHOSEN followers of Jesus Christ to be different from it. This world belongs to the enemy and this world is captive to the enemy, his systems, his psychology, and his methods to get their way in pursuing their heart's desires . When the Church forgets the fact that there are two kingdoms that are opposed to each other (Ephesians 6:10-20), we lose our way.