John 12:48-50 "The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge..."

"The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge, for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me" (John 12:48-50).

Comment:

In a way very different from the other Gospels, the Gospel of John is concerned less with the human life of Jesus of Nazareth and more with the Christ, the God Presence he came to embody and express. In this passage I hear Jesus the man explaining how that works. He is speaking clear, unambiguous spiritual truth. It is a universal truth, valid and essential for everyone. It does not come from the particular human perspective of Jesus, but from the pure essence of divine Light and Love that expresses as the Christ in him—and that is available as the Christ in us as well. We can embrace that eternal truth or ignore it. The choice is ours. And choices have consequences. If we embrace it, the result will be "eternal life"—the full creative expression of the Christ that we truly are. If we choose to ignore it, we will be judged—that is, we will receive the consequences of that choice as our life experience. Despite what many Christians have come to believe, it isn't about "accepting" Jesus. It's about accepting the universal spiritual truth that flowed through him from our divine Source.   Blessings!

Rev. Ed