Based on Matthew 13:53-58 (New King James Version)
“Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, that He departed from there. When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, ‘Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works? Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?’ So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.’ Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”
Unbelief is the most destructive of all sins because it is the one that simply does not allow for you to believe in God, neither in who He is, nor in what He is capable of doing. Complete unbelief is what takes a person to eternal perdition. And if there is a measure of unbelief in a person, at least not total unbelief (because there are levels of unbelief), it will affect negatively those areas that are linked to the unbelief (if you believe that God is only good for certain things). Faith is everything to every human being. Without faith, you cannot get to anything of value, especially to the great things of God. For it is written: “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6.
Today, many people see God as a legend, or as part of a children’s story. When you talk about God, it’s like talking about a cartoon character, or something similar, but only that He is something that is older and that He was invented by a church institution so that they could be able to control the ignorant masses. Those of us that believe in God are seen as people without education, people that are extremely limited, or simple and even superstitious people. In the end, faith in God does not have much value in today’s “developed” world. Today, just as before, people believe more in the power of the material, in money, in people, in science and technology, and in other similar things. Those things have much more value than anything related to faith in God. And well, each person is free to choose to believe or not believe. But, like we have said many times, absolutely everything has consequences, and if you don’t see the consequences here and now, you will see them in the future, because ladies and gentlemen, the truth is that every human being shall die, and every human being will stand before the Great and Eternal Throne of God, whether they want to believe it or not. And when they are there, they will remember words like these, either for good or for bad, depending on what they decide to do with the Word of God, because God’s Word does not come back empty handed. The Word of God is fulfilled exactly, because either you believe in Him and you receive His salvation and the blessings that come with that salvation, or you don’t believe in Him and you lose the opportunity for salvation and all the blessings that come with that salvation. The Word of God is fulfilled either for blessing or for curse. As it is written: “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20.
The issue is that there are greater things that talk about God, things that are taken for granted because they are so great and immovable, such things that should not be ignored, because they are simply too great and are completely out of our control, those that proclaim God’s greatness, those that should at least cause some sort of curiosity for the Omnipotent God. As it is written: “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.” Romans 1:20. This planet and all of the universe was created by God. It was not an accident or an explosion like many scientists affirm. Furthermore, the truth is that we have no control upon this planet, neither on the stars, and not even on this planet’s gravity. All of that exists and remains not by human hand, neither by money, neither by science or technology, nor by anything that many choose to believe in. We don’t even have anything to do with the beating of our hearts, but rather, it is something completely involuntary. You live and breathe because of something, or rather, because Someone allows for it to happen. And that is God, whether you want to believe it or not.
Now then, one of the things that affirms that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, that He is God, is prophecy. Isaiah wrote the following over 700 years before it was fulfilled in the Lord’s life, which reveals that not only Jesus is the Messiah, but also the greatest act of love that not anyone could fulfill, as it is written: “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked—but with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” Isaiah 53. And this Jesus does not change, for it is also written: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8.
And so, the issue then becomes simpler, and it involves a simple decision: “Do you believe that Jesus is God or not?” If you believe in Him as God, you will attain eternal life and see the glory of God, but if not, the opposite will become your reality. Lord bless! John