The life and trials of a growing Christian - Day Eighty Nine

In the Tuesday morning bible study that I regularly attend we studied the fifteenth chapter of John. The man who led the study did a great job as do all of the others, but he just had a great, confident calm about himself that just kind of sucked me into what he was talking about.
Anyhow, I want to bring up a couple of verses that we read. John 15:18 "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love it's own. Yet you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."    
(By the way, every scripture I post comes from the NKJV or sometimes the KJV.) He asked a question; "Do you think He chose you or did you choose Him?" The bible says in 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
So, I believe that we have all been chosen but we all don't respond. Jesus told a parable about a sower sowing seed. Some went by the wayside and got eaten, some fell on rock and came up but died, some fell on a thorny patch and got choked out, and some fell on good ground and yielded a hundred times what it was. (This has just been paraphrased not quoted) The seed is God's word and all the different soil conditions are the people it falls on which shows that the word goes all over but only roots in some.
He also eluded to what I think the real main thing is, (I say eluded because it's so obvious that he didn't feel a need to spend much time on it) which is "how does the world feel about you?"
I see a lot of preachers on TV who are just loved and swooned over, but they are only preaching half of the gospel, or they're adding their own little twists into it like "prosperity" for example. Jesus says that the world hates Him and therefore will hate us, so we know who those preachers are and who they're preaching to. I make a lot of people angry or uncomfortable with some of what I post and I say good! Jesus didn't mince any words and He certainly didn't water down His gospel. He stepped on everyone's toes because everybody is guilty of sin and needs Him. I just want to tell the truth which is Jesus. John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth , and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."