Rejecting Jesus

“He who listens to you listens to Me; he who rejects you rejects Me; but he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.” Luke 10:16
It’s a wonderful thing to watch someone accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour for the first time. But the sad reality is, more often than not, people will choose to reject the gospel message. This is no reflection on our ability, because salvation is the work of the Holy Spirit in a person’s life. The most eloquent speaker cannot cause someone to be saved; on the contrary, the Holy Spirit can bring repentance in a person just from a few words (see for example Jonah 3:4-5).
The people I find hardest to deal with are those who say, ‘I believe in God, but I don’t believe in Jesus.’ Today’s verse clearly tells us that such a statement is false. If we truly believe in God, we will believe in Jesus because God tells us about Him. If we reject Jesus, we have rejected God. John also says the same thing: “No-one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also” (1 John 2:23).
So what do these people actually believe, who say they believe in God but not in Jesus? They have fabricated a ‘God’ to suit themselves. They do not in fact believe in the true and living God of the Bible.