WHY IS IT THAT THOSE WHO REJECT THE SON ARE REJECTING THE FATHER ALSO [1602]

Jesus used some specific words to the effect that if people could not accept Him on the basis of what He said, then they still should be able to accept Him on the basis of what He DID.

Jesus was sent at the appointed time and place to where God’s message could take root and grow, and from where it could be spread to the whole world.

HE was GOD REVEALED to mankind. “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” He said. “I and the Father are one” He said.

And people rejected both His words and His deeds in their eagerness to deny His claim as being the Son of the God they claimed to believe in and live by.

It was by their rejection of Him that they were rejecting the righteousness which they claimed to have through their LAW relationship with HIS Father. They were incapable of understanding or contemplating what real righteousness was because they lived in the hypocrisy of a law based religion which made demands on them they couldn’t keep.

And this situation has not necessarily changed to this day. People are still unable to see “the forest for the trees” when they maintain their religious opposition to the God of real righteousness, and His Son, by putting their religion before righteousness, in so many ways. Such blindness prevents them from recognising other children of God and they reject them simply on the basis of individual and corporate religious points of view rather than accept them for the righteousness they have and that they are in Christ. By rejecting them they are rejecting the Christ they profess to believe, who is in those being rejected.

Because they are blinded to righteousness. Because they themselves are NOT righteous. Therefore they do not KNOW righteousness. And hence Jesus who IS righteousness does not know them.

So to reject the Son who has demonstrated to the world both His and His Father’s righteousness, is to reject the only true God AND the life He has given us by His Son. “No man comes to the Father but by me”. If we reject the gospel of Jesus then we are rejecting our own lives by the sacrifice that righteousness Himself made in order to communicate that life of righteousness to us also.

To be UNABLE or UNWILLING to recognise the qualities of righteousness that are in the Spirit Himself that manifest as love joy peace forgiveness mercy and all of the “fruits of the Spirit” in all their goodness, is to disqualify oneself from life that is truly life. And that is why to those who reject Him it will be said to them, “Depart from Me, ….I never knew you“.

[Mat.6:23 If the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness][Rom.14:17 For the the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit]