John 12:47 – And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 12:48 – He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Hello readers, hope you had a good week! Today’s blog is about “If you reject God’s word, you reject Jesus Christ”. This ended up being quite a long write up, hopefully not too long for you! But I believe this blog will point you to the word of God and help you to realize just how much you need to cling to your Bible. Just let that sink in for a moment… if you reject the Bible, you reject Jesus Christ. If you reject what Jesus said you’ve rejected him, and if you’ve rejected him you’ve rejected God. The amount of professing Christians whom I talk to or know or know of, it’s staggering how many of them don’t believe part or most or all of the Bible. They reject the scripture. They claim Jesus, but reject what he said. Which is pretty crazy. Jesus didn’t reject the scripture, he would say “it is written”, he himself said “the scripture cannot be broken”, he himself said “thy word is truth”. Whatever Christianity and faith these guys have, it’s not based on believing and obeying God’s word. Yet that’s what Biblical faith is, believing in God’s word, believing that God has said, and believing what he has said. All Abraham had was a promise of God. But he believed it. He was fully persuaded, and through God’s word, he got to know God himself to the point of where he was called the friend of God. If you reject God’s word, you are not his friend.

How can you have been saved and have no appetite for God’s word at all? Something is bad wrong. God’s word is spiritual food, and if you have had spiritual birth, that spiritual man needs to grow and wants to grow, and that inner man grows on God’s word. Abraham staggered not at the promises of God, but many people stagger when it comes to God’s word. They stagger at Genesis 1:1, and if you can’t believe Genesis 1, how will you believe John 3:16? Jesus himself said this to the religious crowd regarding the writing of Moses (of which Genesis is one of those books he wrote) in John 5:47 “But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” How are you going to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ if you reject what Moses wrote? The answer is, of course, you can’t. And you do not. The rich man in hell said to Abraham, send Lazarus back to my brethren, surely they will believe and not come to this place if someone sent from the dead came back and told them!? But Abraham said “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.” Why do you think the Bible warns us about not having an evil heart of unbelief? Because the unbelief runs deep.

The disconnect between professing Christians and the word of God is really quite staggering. They just don’t believe the Bible. They’re as disconnected as a branch that is cut off from the vine is. And that disconnect is why they have no power, no authority, no witness, no salt and no light. They have no value to others, they have no use to God in the salvation of souls. They don’t even have real salvation themselves, their lives don’t show salvation from anything. The Bible was given us so we could know, but they don’t know anything, they don’t want to know anything. They’d rather not know the truth. The attitude that Christians have to the Old Testament is dumbfounding. Yet you can’t know God without the Old Testament. God could’ve easily started with John 3:16, but he did not.

Did you know you cannot get saved without the law of God? How will you convince someone of sin without the law of God? Everyone thinks they’re a good person, how can you convince them of a need for a Saviour if they don’t see any need to be saved? What value is Jesus Christ to you if you’re a pretty good person? Christ is dead in vain. The fact is, you cannot get to know God without the Old Testament, you cannot cut yourself off from most of the Bible, from most of God’s revelation of himself to man and have a Christianity based on a few convenient scriptures for you. Did you know Jesus Christ didn’t start existing at his human birth? He was and is the Creator God. Jesus Christ was as much with God, and as much God, and as much in Genesis 1 as in John 1. If you can’t believe Jesus in Genesis 1:1, how will you proceed further?

It’s just ridiculous that you can claim to be a Christian yet reject the word of God. God’s word is the foundation of our faith. God’s word is that important that the Bible says that God has magnified his word above his name. When he made his promises, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself. “Surely blessing I will bless thee.” God couldn’t swear by greater than by his own word, because he cannot lie the greatest oath he can make is swearing by himself. You can’t swear by greater than by God’s word. That’s why in a court of law, you used to put your hand on the Bible and take an oath to tell the truth. You were swearing to tell the truth by the absolute gold standard for truth that humanity has. Yes, our society used to think a lot more of God’s word than we do now. But God’s word is still the truth. It is still the standard. It still is the only sure and unchanging and eternal thing we have to frame our existence around. It is our sure and guiding star in this dark world. And God’s word will never pass away. Imagine that, heaven and earth will pass away, but his word will not pass away. Furthermore, our entire salvation is wrapped up in God’s word. If his word is no good, we’re sunk.

Our salvation is based on God’s promise. Abraham’s promise didn’t get lost in translation or lose its meaning over time or change even once. God had promised him, and God delivered on his promise. And Abraham was confident in how good God’s word was. Where is your confidence? It’s been shot hasn’t it. You don’t even believe the God you say you trust to save you has the power to communicate. How can that God save you? What God is God who can’t speak for himself? It was Baal that could not communicate at Mount Carmel, are you really just serving Baal? They cut themselves trying to get an answer, they didn’t lack for zeal or enthusiasm or commitment or dedication, but Baal did not answer, because he can’t. Elijah, however, had confidence his God would answer. He made it more and more impossible, because he has the God of all things are possible. When are we going to have Elijah’s faith in the word of God? Imagine him going to Mount Carmel not sure if God said what he meant and meant what he said. If you have no confidence in God’s word, your faith is shot. Satan has destroyed Christian confidence in the Bible, the backbone of the very faith they profess. Our foundation is gone, and the Bible says if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

The fact that you put such a low estimation on the Bible while God rates his word so highly shows how out of touch you truly are with God. You know why Christianity is like it is today? Because it is divided and it is divided against itself. To call yourself a Christian and oppose the word of God whom you say you believe in is to be divided against yourself. And Jesus himself taught the principle that any kingdom that is divided against itself cannot stand and will be brought to desolation. Can you see a version of Christianity out there and everywhere today that is a sad imitation of the original, and one that has made itself utterly desolate? It’s desolate of God’s power, God’s unction, God’s Spirit and God’s authority. It’s desolate of truth and salt and faith and hope and light. Have you been brought to desolation in your own thinking and life? Is your Christianity just an empty, spiritually dead going through the motions exercise. Maybe noone else knows it, but you know it. You are living a desolate life.

As soon as king Jehoshaphat teamed up with king Ahab, the Bible says they sat in a “void place” as they listened to the counsel of Ahab’s false prophets. It was a void place because Jehoshaphat was in a void place in life, he wasn’t thinking, he’d been separated from God’s word, and the influence of Ahab was so strong that even when he heard God’s word, he still followed Ahab into a battle they were going to lose. Ahab got killed and his entire kingdom was eventually brought to desolation because the God they claimed they served was the same God who’s word they rejected. Are you in a void place in life? Are you void of truth, of knowledge, of the power and presence of God? I am around Christians who are desolate and don’t even know it. God is not with them. They don’t know God. They’re like Samson, not even knowing God is gone.

A Christianity without origin and basis in God’s word will dry, shrivel up, and die. Indeed, if your faith was not “seeded” by the word of God, it is a faith without seed. Your faith and salvation and Christianity must be based on receiving the gospel through repentance and faith. God’s word may be a tiny seed, but it is a seed that produce an unmistakable new birth and new life. I do a lot of pruning in my job, and when you cut a branch off from the tree, it is separated from the life source, and it instantly begins to dry up, wither and die. When Jesus said he is the vine and we are the branches, he was helping us to grasp such a fundamental truth of the faith through an illustration in nature. In the picture of Jesus as the vine, we see that our life comes from Christ. I don’t have life in and of myself, my life comes from his life in me flowing through me.

You are placed in Christ when you are born again, and that happens when you believe the gospel. The Holy Spirit places you in Christ. And we grow in that relationship through our connection to the vine, which is based on his word and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. If you are cut from Jesus Christ, such as being cut off from his word, you will dry up. I do as a Christian every time. When we read his word, we are abiding in the vine, and life flows in and through the branch of our lives. God’s word is the basis of our salvation and fellowship with him. But if we are not in the vine, guess what happens? We wither up. True Christians should not wither up, and you will not die if you’re in the vine and cannot die, because his life is in you. But there are many branches which are dead. They claim to be in the vine, they’re a professing branch, but they’re a dead branch. Are you a dead branch? Are you withered up? Will you be cast forth and gathered with all the other dead professing sticks and burned in the end? Being in Christ is being in his word. Your salvation and walk with God must be based on the truth of his word.

Without God’s word, we have nothing. You may claim the Spirit all you want, and yes, the Holy Spirit is given to everyone who believes the gospel. But you don’t get him without faith. And if you don’t believe, you don’t have him. And you can’t see the spirit world. Maybe you do not have the Holy Spirit. Why is there no holiness in your life if you claim to have the Holy Spirit? Why is there no love of truth in your life if you claim to have the Spirit of truth? And we can be fooled so easily. The tangible thing we have from God is his word. Just like those tables of stone were tangible, but we have something even greater, because the Holy Spirit writes those tables on our heart. It’s not I have to read the Bible, it’s I want to read the Bible.

How do you know what spirit you are of? You need to try the spirits. To discern the spirits, you need the spiritual discernment of God’s word. And God’s word is the sword of the Spirit. It is our spirit level. If Satan can appear as an angel of light and his ministers as ministers of righteousness, how on earth will you know anything without the word of God? You cannot. You need God’s word. It is compulsory not optional. God’s word is our vineyard, and shouldn’t sell it out, if Naboth was willing to die for his vineyard and his ownership of it and wanting to pass it on to his sons, then so should we have that same zeal for what God has given to us and our great heritage from the Lord.

The reason why you have such a problem with his word isn’t that there is a problem with his word, but there is a problem with you. The Bible does not, and never did need to be changed, the Bible was given to change YOU. If you get in God’s word, and you believe it and obey it, just as Jesus said, you’re founding your life upon the rock, and you’re a tree planted by the rivers of water. Sending your roots down into God’s word is a good place to put your roots down. We’ve already referred to where the appetite for God’s word is, but often our bellies have an appetite for sin and pleasure and riches, not for God’s word.

If you were in God’s word, if you were  saved, if you did have the Holy Spirit, out of your belly would flow rivers of living water. When you read the Bible and it’s your life, it will flow out from you to others. God’s word is the most important thing you can consume. When you’re in the book, the book flows out of you. There should be a life giving stream coming out from you to others. That is the work of the Holy Spirit in the believers life, somehow we got to separating the Holy Spirit and the word of God, but they are inseparable. The work of the Holy Spirit and the word of God are not mutually exclusive, not ever, they are in perfect harmony together, just as God has perfect harmony within himself. God is not divided, God is One.

So we have been talking about how vital and foundational God’s word is. Jesus taught, and it still holds true today, that if you do not receive God’s word, you do not receive him. You see, Jesus was holding forth God’s word to the people of his day, and they rejected it and him. They didn’t accept him and just reject what he was saying. No, they rejected what he said and who he was. It’s utter craziness to claim Jesus Christ and reject what he said. If you are rejecting what he says, you are rejecting HIM. Jesus had just told them what God said, and they rejected HIM for it. If you reject God’s word, you reject Jesus Christ. If you do not receive God’s word, you do not receive Jesus Christ.

Jesus had said this in John 8:47 “He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.” They didn’t like God’s word because they were not of God. If you’re truly saved you won’t oppose the word of God. The you don’t hear God’s words is because you are not of God. The reason you reject God’s word is because you are not of God. You don’t agree with God’s word because you are not in agreement with him, and you are against him if you are not for him. Whatever religion you have, it’s not saving faith, it’s not salvation, it’s not being born again. The reason you can’t stand God’s word, the reason why you don’t like it, the reason why you dispute and deny and disobey it is because although you may claim God, you do not know him, you are not of him. If you were of God, you would hear his word. You would say Amen rather than butting against him on everything he’s said. God’s sheep say Amen, but the goats, all they do is “butt”. For the last part of this blog I am going to post some verses with some comments on each one as they relate to what we have been discussing.

Mark 12:13 “And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. ” Jesus Christ had a lot of people going around trying to trick him and trap him and prove him wrong, prove him to be a liar. It’s like people today. They’re trying to find holes and find reasons why they shouldn’t submit to the truth and authority and supremacy of God’s word. But the thing is, God can’t be caught in his own word. Mark it down. You have nothing to be ashamed of in standing by God’s word. God’s word will never let you down. You should be confident and assured in God’s word. God’s word stands. God’s word is the truth. God doesn’t contradict himself. God doesn’t need your help. God is not a liar. God is smarter than you are. When you’re done and in hell, God’s word will still be right as it was all along.

Jesus said this in Luke 9:26 “For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.” If you’re ashamed of God’s word, Jesus will be ashamed of you. Did you know that? Do you realize the enormity of what’s being said here? When you’re ashamed of what the Bible says, when you’re ashamed of who God is, Jesus Christ will be ashamed of you. I’ve had a thought recently, and although I knew it, it really hit home the other day. A lot of people are in for a rude shock when they die. They thought they were saved, they lived Christian, they went to church… but it was a spiritually void exercise. It was never about God’s word, it was never being born again, it was all just religion… and at the end of it… depart from me, I never knew you. What terrible final words from your Creator to you.

Luke 24:44 “And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.” Did you know all Jesus preached from, and all the apostles preached from was the Old Testament? Did you know the entire Bible is about Jesus Christ, for it is the testimony of Jesus Christ. It was always about Jesus Christ. From Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, it’s about Jesus Christ. You don’t need to change the Bible, YOU need to be changed. It’s not the Old Testament makes no sense, it’s YOU make no sense, because you’ve got no sense. You need God’s sense, the book is Holy Spirit discerned. They’re spiritual words which you need spiritual life in order to grasp. When you say you need a Bible easier to understand, you’re just admitting you don’t have the Holy Spirit.

I have already quoted this one earlier, but just read this again, Jesus said in John 5:47 “But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” If you don’t believe the Old Testament, how are you going to believe the New? Far out. If you don’t believe in Genesis 1, how will you believe anything after? The answer is you won’t, and you don’t, and your life truly shows it. You may have a form of godliness, but you’re denying the power thereof. Where is the power of a Christian? It’s in the word of God. That’s where the power is. What power did Moses have? His power laid in “God has said”. Yea hath God said? Yea… God HAS said. Why don’t we get our story straight.

You’re going to have nothing to say to yea hath God said if you don’t know that God has said and what God has said. C’mon now, you’re no match for Satan, you will be devoured by him in a heartbeat when you stand against Jesus Christ, you’re like Judas Iscariot, you stand with “them” rather than with Christ. Who are you standing with? And you’ve been told what God has said. You can know what God has said, and you should know what God has said, and you will be judged by what God has said. Did you know that? At judgment you’ll be judged according to God’s word by God’s standard. And you are without excuse. The Bible is more gift wrapped to you than the babe Jesus Christ in the manger.

Jesus said in John 3:34 “For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.” God sent Jesus Christ, and he spoke God’s word. Likewise if you’re a Christian, you will speak God’s word, as Christ did. How can you be a Christian yet not be Christlike… which is why people were called Christian to begin with… because they were Christ like. If you’re of God, you will speak God’s word. Does that make sense? If you don’t speak God’s word, God hasn’t sent you. And you know who is sent by God because of whether the Bible is in their mouth or not.

If I claimed to be of God, yet I don’t care for the Bible, you can rightly call me a fake. Jesus Christ didn’t come with his own stuff, he said he always did what the Father showed him to do, and he told them what his Father had told him to say. And guess what, the Holy Spirit is tied directly to the word of God. If you have the Holy Spirit, you will LOVE the word of God, not hate it, not not understand it, not oppose it. You want the Holy Spirit without measure? Get in God’s word, that’ll fill you up more than you can hold. That’s why the rivers of living water flow out of the believers belly. If your belly has no appetite for God’s word, it’s not likely to be flowing out is it.

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” God’s word is spirit. That’s why this world rejects God’s word, because they’re of a different spirit, they walk according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience. You have a spirit of disobedience, that’s why you don’t like God’s word. As a Christian, what you need for spiritual battles is a spiritual sword… and that weapon is the word of God. Know your enemy. Know what the real battle is, the real battle is spiritual.

But you’ve been disarmed haven’t you. And the devil didn’t even need to fight you. You surrendered. You’re like Ephraim in Psalm 78:9 “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.” You had all the weaponry, you had the chance to be fully equipped, fully furnished, and you were too busy, too distracted, too full on deceit and your own conceit. God’s word is spirit, it’s your spiritual food, it’s how you grow as a believer, it’s how you are strong and filled with the Holy Spirit of God.  Fill your mind and heart and soul with Bible and you’ll never look back, and you’ll never want anything or anyone else.

John 6:68 “Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.” Where else can we go but to Jesus Christ and his word? It was what Jesus spoke, it was what he said. When he began his ministry the Bible says they “wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth”. How can you love Jesus who you have not seen? Your connection is built by his love letter to you, by his Bible. You know God through his word and through faith. You wouldn’t need faith if it was based on anything else.

And Peter said, to whom shall we go? Why would you go anywhere else but to Jesus? But we go anywhere and everywhere but to the Bible don’t we. But Peter said, I got nowhere else to go. May we be like Peter. And as long as you’re going somewhere else, you’re never going to be saved or sanctified. By the way, incase it has not been made clear yet… the Lord Jesus Christ and his word is no different. God is who he says he is. He doesn’t change and he doesn’t lie. His word is the perfect representation of who he is, because his word is who he is. In the beginning God in Genesis 1, and in the beginning was the Word in John 1. Why do you think Jesus Christ is called the Word of God? Think about it.

John 8:30 “As he spake these words, many believed on him.” When you finally take God at his word, welcome aboard, you’ll be saved and join the pantheon of all other saints of God who just took God at his word. Right from Abraham to you, justified by your faith. Saved by faith. Forgiven by faith. Righteous by faith. Delivered by faith. Glorified by faith. God’s word was given to you so you would believe. Belief is the thing lacking in Christianity today. They don’t believe anything. They don’t believe Genesis 1:1. God’s word is for you to believe, not for you to investigate and question and dispute and deny and doubt and disobey. It was given so you could KNOW. Because you need to know. It’s not a good idea, it’s a must.

As already stated previously, if your belief is based on the truth of God’s word, if that is where your faith is founded and grounded, you’re building your house upon the rock. Rock, because he is the Rock, and rock, because rock doesn’t move, doesn’t change, it’s a strong and certain and eternal foundation to build upon. By the way, God’s word was written on stone in the ten commandments you know why? Because it wasn’t subject to change. And after Moses broke the first set of tables, God wrote down the exact same thing again… because he hadn’t lost it, or changed it, or updated it. That new covenant wasn’t God changing what is right and wrong, he was just making a deal with man based on belief in what his Son had done rather than what man can do, which he can’t do, because we are all sinners and noone is worthy in all of human history apart from Jesus Christ.

John 14:23 “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” If you say you love Christ, you won’t just know his word, but you’ll keep it. Keep can mean two things, it means you won’t just walk away from the Bible, and keep it also means you will obey it. Keep your Bible rather than surrendering it. Keep your Bible by obeying it. If you truly loved Christ, you would obey his word. To keep his word, you’ve gotta love his word, trust his word, hear his word, believe his word.

And the reason why there is no revelation of God to you personally, and why your religion is stone cold dead is because you have never believed the word of God. You don’t know the love of God personally. You are not a house of God, you don’t have relationship and fellowship with him. Your religion is theoretical and in your head, there’s been no illumination, no revelation and there is no abiding. God is not going to come unto you and be with you when you’re calling him a liar, end of story. He won’t honour that, he won’t be with you. Jesus Christ’s name of Immanuel means “God with us”. God is not going to be with you when you don’t even believe who he is and what he has said.

Jesus in his prayer to his Father said in John 17:8 “For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.” Give people God’s word, Jesus Christ did, why don’t we. If God’s given us his word, why don’t we receive it? “Have known surely”. God’s word will produce knowledge and sureness. They’ll surely know things, and they won’t be moved off them, because they know the truth. We don’t have the word of man, we have the word of God. This isn’t Aesop’s fables, this is the word of Holy God that we are dealing with. When you reject God’s word, you’re rejecting Jesus Christ, and you’re rejecting God. Because Jesus Christ gave us the word of God.

1 Timothy 4:6 “If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.” God’s word nourishes us. God’s word produces faith. God’s word is good doctrine. What we believe and why we believe it, what’s right and what’s wrong, everything that we know about anything must come from God’s word. Get your doctrine from God’s word, stop basing it off feelings, opinions, theories, philosophy… lies of man. Let God be true and every man a liar.

1 TImothy 6:3,4 “If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,” You know what your problem is? You are proud and you don’t know anything. When you reject God’s word, it’s because you’re proud, not humble. You think you’re something and know better… but you don’t. And you give me where someone is rejecting God’s word, and I’ll show you where all manner of other garbage is going on as well. You know all these Christians with new Bibles, you know what they’re all doing? They’re fornicating. They’re drinking. They’re worldly. And they made their Bible so easy to understand that they don’t read it at all.

I am going to wrap this up, I didn’t think it’d go so long. But consider these verses as we finish. 2 Timothy 4:15 ” Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.” God’s word bounces off a lot of people’s proud thick skin. They’re like leviathan of Job 41, not even the air can get between the scales of their pride. Watch out for people who reject God’s word, don’t run with them. If they’ve rejected God’s word, they’ve rejected Jesus Christ… and if they’ve rejected Jesus Christ they’ve rejected God. God’s word will never let you down.

In Revelation 21:5 ” And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.” God’s word is true and faithful. His words are faithful because he is a faithful Creator and a faithful Creator. He doesn’t lie, he keeps his word. You can take his word to the bank, you can stake your soul upon the Bible. Don’t give away your Bible, Christians just threw it away like dumb suckers for sad imitations. They got fooled by the Egyptian counterfeiters, they sold out truth, and their life has been trainwrecked. Get into the Bible and stay in the Bible, your faith must be seeded by the word of God. That is a faith that will last life’s storms, for it is a faith authored by the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He authored his book, and he’ll author your faith, your life, and your eternity. If you can’t trust him with his book, how will he author your faith and your salvation? That’s right, he won’t. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of the Holy Bible today.

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