Bible Verse of the Day Wednesday November 29th 2023

Luke 10:16 Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Jesus was the Word in the flesh and an incarnate Deity who came down from heaven to live among humanity. Jesus is the only being in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells. He came to reveal God to humanity and to mediate between humans and God.

God's eternal Son was born into humanity as the perfect Son of Man, and the brilliance of His beauty was identical in every way to the magnificent brilliancy of the Father, who filled Jesus with grace and truth. Those in tune with Christ can hear God Himself saying: "Those who reject Jesus reject the One who sent Him.” Jesus came into the world to save His people from sin, fulfilling God's promise to the Father. God sent Jesus to redeem humankind from their sin and to save those who believed in Him with His celestial nature and perfect righteousness so that by His grace, we could be witnesses for him and bring forth the honor of His name.

He came to fulfill the promise made in the Garden of Eden of the coming Messiah, who would sit on David's throne and usher in the promised period of peace and prosperity. He came to take up His rightful place as God's anointed King, but when they rejected Jesus, they also turned their backs on the Father in Heaven. Christ Jesus is the only one who can claim to be one with the Father in heaven. He is the only being who can proclaim that He and the Father are united in honor, integrity, purpose, authority, and power. Jesus alone can say, "If you have seen ME, you have seen the Father, and whoever rejects me rejects Him Who sent Me."

In these verses, Christ Jesus commissioned seventy-two of His disciples to go throughout the land as His chosen representatives (Luke 10:1, some versions say seventy). Jesus sent them to heal the afflicted, cure the sick, raise the dead, and proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. They were to be the spokespeople for God and by declaring Jesus as Messiah, they announced Him to be the true promised Messiah. Not everyone listened to Christ's words and paid attention to the seventy, but those who believed in Him received the right to be the sons of God. Those who did accept the message of the seventy not only listened to the words of Jesus but also to the Father Who sent Him.

For over two thousand years, people in God’s Church have been witnesses for Jesus to a lost, dark, and dying world. As members of His Body, we are His mouthpiece today. We are His spokespersons, His ambassadors, His witnesses. What a privilege and responsibility to discover that these words spoken to Christ's 70 disciples when commissioned by Him in Luke are equally meaningful to all who call on His name: "The one who listens to you," Jesus said, "listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me, and the one who rejects Me also rejects the One Who sent Me."