Luke 10:16. “The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me”

It was approximately five months ago, I spoke with a brother in Yeshua, and as we shared bread, John (not his real name) related, he was finished trying to pass warnings onto the Ecclesia. What he related was a sad story because John was telling me multitudes of the Ecclesia were involved. And in that multitde many were unknowingly walking contrary to God’s word. John related these sectors of believers would listen, however would then in their vanity discount or discard the warnings.

As we spoke, the Lord was revealing scripture of how He was seeing these certain sectors of the Ecclesia, Exodus 32:9 KJV
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: John went on testifying how he had brought his message to these sectors, being quite grounded, vivid and to the point in relating the message.

That by accepting the world’s concept that coping with life was the same as dealing with life, they had usurped God’s teachings and commandment. Exodus 20:16 KJV
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

The laws of the SECOND table, that is, the last six of the ten commandments, state our duty to ourselves and to one another, and explain the great commandment, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, Luke 10:27.

How important is this knowledge in relation to John’s testimony. If we speak of eternal life and the way to it, in a careless manner, we take the name of God in vain. No one will ever love God and his neighbour with any measure of pure, spiritual love, who is not made a partaker of converting grace. Which when researched extolls being responsible and accountable for personal actions. Mark 8:38 KJV
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. As I researched this deeper, it was becoming clear how in coping with life (rationalizing and justifying your actions) these individuals by fearing accountability and being responsible were actually showing they were ashamed of Yeshua, unwittingly.

But the proud heart of man strives hard against these convictions. Christ gave an instance of a poor Jew in distress, relieved by a good Samaritan. This poor man fell among thieves, who left him about to die of his wounds. He was slighted by those who should have been his friends, and was cared for by a stranger, a Samaritan, of the nation which the Jews most despised and detested, and would have no dealings with.

It is lamentable to observe how selfishness governs all ranks and how many excuses men will make to avoid trouble or expense in relieving others. What John’s message pointed out was how the Ecclesia in using rationalizations and justifications as the basis (Coping skills) of  their walk were not offering assistance to those trapped in the darkness of evil no more than they were walking righteously as they were dealing with them as they had dealt with themselves.

Now, here is where John desired to point out the Ecclesia’s altered teachings. It was revealing how, through their actions of usurping accountability (again using coping skills to rationalize and justify their position in evil), responsibility was being removed along with accountability.

John continued to relate to the Ecclesia that by accepting the world’s concept that coping with life is the same as dealing with life, these sectors of the Ecclesia were like the Isralites in Exodus walking righteously as they believed. In stead have fallen into the following Romans 1:22-23
[ themselves to be wise, they became fools,
[23]And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

We then must take all of our teachings and daily be assessing our walk and personal relationship with Yeshua, knowing now, the difference between taking responsibility for our actions or usurping that responsibility and the eventual consequences. We must keep our walk straight and on the narrow path or suffer the same consequences as the 800 thousand Israelites who believed in their minds they were righteous Numbers 26:65 KJV
For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

As I write this warning I now deeply understand why we must be appreciative that God has placed us under Grace and covered by the blood of the LAMB his Son Yeshua as our interceder, as these words keep echoing loud and clear Exodus 32:9-10 KJV
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: [10] Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Luke 10:16. “The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me”