Jesus To The Jewish People: “Ye Will Not Come To Me That Ye Might Have Life”

If you want to know the position of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Jewish people, then you need only turn to the scriptures for the answer. There was never any ambiguity in his speech, and you will find that same clarity in the following passages. In the passage below the Lord is talking to the Jewish religious leaders of his time:


Jesus was talking  to them about a man named John the Baptist, the one who prepared the way for him. John the Baptist was the “voice in the wilderness” whom Isaiah the prophet, prophesied would prepare the way of the Lord (YHWH). (Isaiah 40:3) That should have been enough for the true seekers of God, because the prophets had testified about the coming Messiah, and Jesus Christ was the very fulfillment of that. Jesus went on to say that he did not need the testimony of man (and he really didn’t), and he was talking to them so that they might be SAVED! This whole Gospel is all about salvation in Jesus Christ, and there is no difference in the sight of God between Jew and Gentile, although there are many false ministers who declare otherwise!


The Lord told the people that the Father was the one who bore witness to all that he did. The incredible works that Jesus did, should have been enough to get their attention but that was not the case. Listen to  what the Lord told them next. Jesus told them that they did not have his Father’s word abiding in them, because they did not believe in the one whom he sent! Who did the Father send? It was Jesus of course. It all comes down to the scriptures, and what they say about Christ! Does a person believe what the scriptures testify about Jesus Christ or do they not?


The Lord held nothing back here in telling the Jewish people that their own scriptures testified about him. He told them that they falsely assumed that they already possessed eternal life, because their very own scriptures (God’s Word) testified about him. The prophets, the psalms and the writings of Moses all testified and prophesied about Jesus Christ! The sad thing is that they refused to come to him, that they might have the true eternal life which he offered to them! The message that Jesus Christ preached to the Jewish people of his day is the EXACT same message which should be preached to them in our day. If a man stands in the pulpit and proclaims a different way of salvation for the Jewish people, or a different covenant for the Jewish people, then they are not true ministers of the Gospel which Jesus preached. They fit into the category of being a BOGUS minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! They will find themselves fighting against the Lord himself, because it is his word against theirs! The scriptures clearly proclaim that eternal life is found ONLY in Jesus, the Son of God, and to suppress that truth from the Jewish people is nothing less than wicked!

