Why do you just need Jesus, just Jesus and nothing else? No theology, no church nothing else but Jesus Christ. Just Jesus Christ you need to know Jesus Christ. If you don’t know Jesus, if you don’t have a relationship with Jesus, if He doesn’t know you, you have nothing, no hope nothing. We read in Colossians 1:13-20 “For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him (for Jesus Christ). 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19 For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.”
Everything holds together in Jesus Christ. Everything was made for Him and through Him and to Him. And yet God the Father who made Him first and then made everything for Him and made everything to hold substance through Him, God the Father made Him come down to this earth to shed His Blood, to take the form of a humble servant, although He was God Almighty although He was the owner of all of this. God sent Him down here to take the form of a servant to be like us, to be subjected to the same pain to the same futility subjected to death, subjected to scorn, rejection, and humility. He was innocent, He who never sinned. God made Him to come in the form of a servant to come and serve, to come and wash His disciples feet, to come and heal the sick. Not to come and be a rich man on this earth but to come in the poorest form, a homeless person, being rejected by men although He healed many He fed many He was scorned. He was rejected, He was crucified, He was put to death by His own. They didn’t accept Him and God arose Him from the dead and made Him victorious, that is who Jesus is, He is God Almighty. All judgment is being given unto Him. Today people don’t want Jesus, they worship the Bible, they worship the church, they worship themselves, they won’t come to Jesus they don’t want a relationship with Jesus. They don’t want to hear His voice, they don’t want His Holy Spirit, they don’t want to spend time in His presence, they hang onto themselves.
That’s why He said in John 3:19 "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.” That is why people reject Jesus Christ. They got all kind of stories. Everything was made for Him and through Him and to Him and in Him all things hold together. When He walked this earth He gave us command of how He wants us to conduct ourselves, to please Him to go into His heaven. He made heaven that’s why He could talk about heaven, why He could tell people about Heaven, He made hell too, that’s why He could talk about hell and why He could tell people about hell.
He is the owner of everything, God made it for Him and through Him and to Him and yet men scorn Him yet men don’t want to know Him. They hang on to all kind of other things, onto friends; religion is the worst of all, it takes people away from a relationship with Jesus Christ. The only thing that should matter in your life and mine is a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Paul writes in Romans 1:1, I am a bondservant of Jesus Christ. In Jude 1:1, Jude a bondservant of Jesus Christ, he is a servant he has enslaved himself to Jesus Christ. Jesus made them free from sin yet they enslaved them to Him. Peter writes in 2 Peter 1:1, Peter a bondservant of Jesus Christ a bond slave he enslaved himself to Jesus Christ. Many people scorn Peter, talk bad about Peter, Peter was a human like us, he had failures like us but he remained faithful to Christ until they crucified him upside down. So next time you hear somebody talk about Peter remember that, Peter was a bondservant right to the very end.
It’s about Jesus Christ, it is not about us. People haggle about baptism they haggle about obedience to Jesus Christ. He who does not obey the Son will not see eternal life. If you don’t come to Jesus, if you don’t obey Him, you will not see eternal life. He says My sheep know My voice and they follow Me. If we don’t want to know His voice, if we don’t want to follow Him, if we don’t set aside everything and follow Him we are not worthy of Him. That’s what He said, He said he who loves father, mother or whatever above Me is not worthy of Me. Jesus said what He meant and meant what He said and He is coming to judge this world and nobody will have any excuse. People believe they are saved because they put up their hand and they accepted Christ. Listen friend, if you have accepted Jesus Christ you accept the whole of Jesus Christ, every Word that He spoke you will obey every Word that He said. You will live in communion with Him. We have the hope of glory if we hold on to Jesus right to the end. If we reject him He will reject us.
We read in Colossians 1:21-23 “And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, 22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.”If you do not hold on until the end, if you do not obey Jesus Christ until the end, if you do not live in repentance of yourself, lay down yourself daily, pick up your cross and follow Jesus and obey Him, you have no hope of going into heaven with Him. He is not your fool, neither is He mine; He knows exactly what is in our minds. If we reject Him He will certainly deny us. Let us not fool around, let us not play church, Jesus is none part of that. Let us get onto our knees and seek Jesus, let us mean business. Get everything out of the way that separates us from Jesus Christ, let us become totally obedient. If we don’t obey Jesus, He will say to us: It is written! There will be no exception. It is not those who believe who are saved, it is those who believe and obey, obey right to the last bit. Peter and the Apostles, they obeyed until death. His sheep know His voice and they follow Him right to the very end. They reject everything, they lay everything aside and they follow Jesus. It is Jesus that we need and nothing else. A close relationship and a hundred percent obedience to live in total obedience with Him in repentance every day. If we go wrong we repent immediately, but we stay with Him, we just stay on course, we just hang unto Jesus for dear life, there is no other hope at all, nothing but Jesus.
