Many reject God’s clear command “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” Eve’s excuse: “It’s all right for me break God’s rules because I have a higher goal.”
That assault on the Primacy of God began with Eve and ends for each of us with the last lie that any of us tell.
Jesus’ bizarre instruction from John 6:53 “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” is a test that divides the obedient from those who put the idol of self before God.
People who had seen Him raise the dead, feed the multitudes, give sight to the blind and cure lepers were stunned. “Surely, He didn’t say that?” When He repeated it, after John 6:53, they murmured among themselves. By the time their inability to believe “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” reached the end of that Chapter, John 6:66, crowds of early Protestants had left Jesus.
By saying something as outrageous as “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” Jesus forced those who believed, and were humble enough for sufficient obedience, to separate themselves from those who only believed what they wanted.
Jesus used that single sentence to separate disobeying Protestants in every age from those who believed and obeyed. He came to divide. Be careful!
Catholics are more careful to be obedient. “We believe that Jesus is God. We take all His words seriously, even ‘If you to not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.‘ Since He is God, we attend The Only Church He Founded by saying ‘Verily, verily I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you The Keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’ It would be horribly disrespectful to avoid The Church Jesus Founded for one of the 43,000 denominations invented by vain men.”
The process of dividing is interesting. Those who proclaim “I am a Christian, but I do not believe Jesus was right to say ‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.‘ I believe in Jesus, but not enough to actually obey Him if I don’t want to do so.” do not worship Jesus, but themselves.
Those vain enough to pick and choose which of Jesus’ words they will obey don’t let their violation of The First Commandment get in the way of believing their universal truth: “I know what Jesus said, but I am a good person. He is not important enough for me to obey.”
During the disobedience process, they forget: Jesus will judge their immortal soul! Even as they willingly break The First Commandment by repeatedly putting self above God, and even encouraging others to do so, they do not see the risk.
Those who say “I am a Christian, but I don’t have to obey Christ.” are driving in growing darkness at ever higher speeds along a winding road with their lights off.
