THEY DO NOT KNOW THE ONE WHO SENT ME

At 16,1-10; Ps 99; Jn 15,18-21
5 MAY
No one can give himself the knowledge of God. We can know all the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, but not for this we know God, Christ, the Holy Spirit and the supernatural and eternal realities. The knowledge of God and of every other reality is a gift, a very pure gift, made to us through Jesus Christ. Whoever refuses to accept the Word of Christ Jesus remains in the non-knowledge of God for the entire life. There are no other ways for God to be known. Only Christ is the way, the truth and the life. In the Gospel according to John Jesus says it with great clarity to the Jews: “You do not know God. The historical fact that you want to kill me that am from God, come from him and speak his Word, attests to it”. If Jesus is the only one that reveals the Father whoever opposes Christ, fights him, denies him, disgraces him, slanders him, says false testimony about him and misrepresents his words, he certainly does not know God.

So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true (Jn 7, 28). So they said to him, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also” (Jn 8, 19). You do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word (Jn 8, 55). The Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you (Jn 14, 17). And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me (Jn 15, 21). They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me (Jn 16, 3). Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me (Jn 17, 25).

What prevents the Jews from welcoming the testimony of Christ Jesus? This truth is also revealed. It is the bad works that they perform and that they do not want to abandon. Without the abandonment of sin, never might the light of Jesus enter into a heart. If the will is oriented to evil, every light goes out and no flame of truth enters the heart. It is not enough to give light. It must also be accepted. The Jews do not want to welcome the light, rather they decided to turn it off forever.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God (Jn 3,16-21).

Light and sin are opposed to each other. Sin suffocates light. The light extinguishes sin in the heart. But the man does not want to take away the sin from the heart; he is willing not only to reject the light, but also to shut it down, suffocate, kill and crucify it.

“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

Jesus warns the disciples. They must know that they will be hated by the world just as He has been hated. If He has not been accepted, might they be welcomed? If the world as world remaining world welcomes the disciples, then it is right they question themselves. This happens only when there is a betrayal of light and truth. They are disciples, but according to the world, in harmony with it and not according to Christ Jesus.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us true disciples of Jesus.