John 5:42 “But I know you, that ye have not the
love of God in you.”
Jesus Christ is the single most rejected man in the history
of this world. People hated Him when He was on this earth, so much so they
released a murder to crucify the Son of God. John wrote "He came unto
his own, and his own received him not." John 1:11 Jesus Christ came
to the Jews and they rejected Him, so much so they punished Him worse than any
man. The world hates Him and also rejects Him, and because of their hate for
Jesus they also hate Christians. Even “so-called Christians” hate Him, while
they seek to worship Him they in reality hate Him. They hate Him because He is
the Saviour of the world. "And
whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou
this?" John 11:26 He, and He alone is our salvation, but as the Jews
rejected Him, so does most of the religionist called Christians. Salvation is
in Jesus Christ and the bible is completely proof of this, but so-called
Christians reject Him as Saviour and trust their own works for salvation. I
understand why this is done, it is because people trust themselves more than
Jesus Christ. People just cannot believe that a person can obtain salvation
without their input. This is the mentality of the human nature, “only I can do
it, and do it right”. However, we cannot, we have not the ability within us to
do it ourselves. If we did we would not need a Saviour. The forgiving
blood of Jesus is needed every day of your life, even after you are saved.
Believers in Jesus Christ, Christians, are still sinners, we still sin every day.
But, somehow some people truly believe they are sin-free because after their
salvation they can live sin-free lives, oh, how wrong you are. We need
the grace of God every day just to do one single thing to bless God. The only
good thing in us is Jesus Christ and God’s forgiveness of our sins. The fact
here is people, “so-called Christians” do not love Jesus Christ. He is not valuable
enough to them to be their Saviour. His blood is not good enough to wash their
sins away. He is not powerful enough to be their Saviour, therefore they must
do themselves what Jesus was not able to do. Let us look at the word of God, “Now
unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you
faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, (25 To the
only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both
now and ever. Amen.” Jude 1:24 – 25 The
idea that works, works of any sort is to replace the Saviour is to say that His
power is less than yours. It is to reject Jesus Christ as Saviour and therefore
you will hate Him and not love Him. Paul, speaking to his young preacher
Timothy said this “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and
will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for
ever and ever. Amen”. 2 Timothy 4:18 With this being said, I must ask this
question, “how is Jesus Christ preserving us, if we are preserving our own
selves”. Jesus Christ Himself said these words “And I give unto them eternal
life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck
them out of my hand.” John 10:28 If He has given us eternal life, then how
is it that we can lose eternal life? So let’s look at it this way, we have been
delivered in Jesus, we are preserved in Jesus, we cannot perish in Jesus, and
no man (including ourselves) can
pluck them out of my hand, but somehow people keep their salvation by works.
Folks, people who will not accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour is rejecting
Him as their Saviour, and therefore they hate Him and not love Him. Listen to
the words of God, “That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding
riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
(8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: (9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. (10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:7 – 10. Salvation
is nothing about ourselves, everything is a gift of God, everything is ordained
of God, and everything is accomplished by God’s power. Now I ask, do you truly
love Jesus Christ, because only those saved in Him truly love Him.
