Think of Rejecting the Gospel of Jesus Christ? The Same Words May Judge You on the Last Day!!!

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 on the last day."

Friends, it's definitely one thing or another- sinners at the hands of an angry God. God in Himself though He will punish sin and He will not tolerate it because He is holy and just, however, He has offered the way out from its eternal consequence of sin to which is an eternity in Hell. It was in fact for no reason that God promised something better than Eden, the Lord Jesus Christ. When Adam and Eve sinned, God promised that the Seed of a woman will crush the serpent (Genesis 3:15). However, there have been problems that people time and time again have chosen to deliberately dismiss God's warning even when there are no more sacrifices for sins (Hebrews 10:26). People have already chosen to deliberately reject God's warning time and time again repeating the mistakes of Cain and Nimrod- two people who are notorious for causing rebellions against God. Cain built Nod where his descendants spread evil to the world, Nimrod, in fact, caused our ancestors to again rebel against God.

Jesus for a fact was already giving warnings about people's pride and sin. He warned about how a love for sin prevents people from going to repentance (John 3:36), also He did speak of people's refusal to come to Him (John 5:40) and choosing to reject the one who God sends over for those who came in another name (John 5:41-44). For one thing- Jesus MEANS business, He was no sissy and He hates sin like His Daddy in Heaven. He never took any detail away from His Father's Law and if He did, He would have not been able to pay for our sins but He cannot go against His Father's will because He and His Father are one and both are one in the Trinity or Godhead. Jesus Christ is God the Son CANNOT sin because He is still God. If He did also, God would have taken Him up to Heaven for a good spanking but because He was in perfect submission to the Father then only He can pay for the sins of man, dying He destroyed death and rising He restored life for anyone who believes.

Now the real issue is this a soulwinner may ask, "What about those who reject the warning of God?" Listen for every Christian because they are all disciples of Christ- it is no surprise and God will take care of them. Jesus already spoke of persecutions, rejection and even His own ministry with the disciples showed that it was no Madison Avenue, no just an easy life, no prosperity Gospel- it was a life that was marred with difficulty and MORE difficulty. If the prophets suffered rejection and Elijah and Jeremiah are the first to come to my mind when I preach of people who reject God's warning. Elijah was a fugitive in the Northern Kingdom where he was opposing the wicked reign of Ahab and Jezebel. In fact, Ahab blamed Elijah for the drought when in reality, it was their worship of Canaanite god Baal (who was a moon god in some cultures hence a counterpart to Allah) that angered the one true God. In the case of Jeremiah, his life was no walk in the park. He kept warning others yet others continued to mock him, torture him and I could imagine how disfigured Jeremiah must have been. And in the Book of Acts, one can find the apostles were not living a comfortable, luxurious and idle life that most prosperity preachers promise- it was a life of trouble. After Paul got saved, seriously he suffered rejection especially from his former friends

In fact, just as Jesus said that Christians are being persecuted and will still be persecuted. He has given the warnings far ahead of His time, knowing that His words will last forever. And anybody who tried to refute the Bible finds themselves only in misery and utter humiliation.The Dark Ages which was the time of the Inquisition, the Roman Catholic Church while declaring her falsehood had really murdered countless Anabaptists, Baptists, and Mennonites through the slowest and painful means of torture just because they warned people of God's coming judgment and that salvation was not by human effort but by divine mercy unto them. For their stand that salvation was not by works yet true faith results to real good works, the pride of the Inquisitors caused many Anabaptists, Baptists, and Mennonites to be tortured through various means. For the Anabaptist writer William Tyndale who was a friend of the reformer Martin Luther, he was burned at the stake for simply translating the Bible into English. John Huss an Anabaptist was executed for translating the Bible too. In fact, the martyrs in the hands of that Great Whore of Revelation has gone throughout the centuries. In short, they rejected the Gospel that was based on the Bible. As a fundamentalist Baptist Christian, I would have already been executed during that time too! I would have probably met William Tyndale in his cell and said, "Well bro, see you in Heaven." while waiting for my turn to be burned or to be executed in any different way.

Now the problem today is still rejecting the Gospel of Jesus Christ as an abhorrent and foolish thing to believe in. I have experienced giving out Gospel tracts and people throw them away calling it "hate literature". It's sad, very sad that many Roman Catholics reject the sole authority of the Word of God for their own tradition (Mark 7:8-13) while they say Sola Scriptura is not Scriptural. How foolish can that be? For Muslims, they also hate Chick tracts because some Muslims who used to hate them are now true Christians. The list can go on and on. I've seen some mockery on Pastor John Macarthur as a hopeless bigot, I've seen Pastor Paul Washer awarded with the skulls and crossbones all for preaching the irrefutable truth of the perseverance of the saints that true Christians cannot completely fall away nor lose their salvation and please, I will not link their sites either. I do not want to give them any more traffic than they do. All I can say is let them hit me all they want, they will pay for it on judgment day.

Some people even die after they boast they don't need Jesus and those words that were said unto them will still be used against them. Think of what Marilyn Monroe said, "I don't need your Jesus." after she was evangelized. Think of what many corrupt politicians will answer the LORD after they have continuously rejected the Gospel. However, I am just glad that some people who had once rejected the Gospel, still had their chances. Like me, I once refused to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ until I realized the ETERNAL weighed more than the cost of the TEMPORAL. What good would it do if I had the whole world and yet lose my soul? How tragic it is so many rich also reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ thinking they can buy salvation. Perhaps that was what the rich young ruler thought- he could buy salvation. But no, salvation is costly on the part of the Father as it cost His only begotten Son for the payment of sins yet it is FREE for all who believe. Yet why do people choose not to believe and reject God's warning? Pride, self-righteousness, and love for sin, in fact, hindered them. No wonder the way to salvation is strait and narrow. All I can do now is to pray for those who rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ that it is not too late for them.