And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world. Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day,

This is an amazing line. It is not saying you can do whatever you want, but instead, is saying that if you hear His word, and recognize it, and you know it is right in your heart, and you follow Him, then you are in communion with Him. If you then reject that communion, then that rejection will be judged. It comes down to this… If you commit a grave sin, you know it is wrong, you are free to do it, and you do it anyway. That is a what we call a mortal sin. And that free choice sets you apart from the lord.

So how do you reject gods word? You have to truly reject the whole of human nature and the image of God that is written on your heart, and choose something utterly different, choose sin. Specifically, you have to remorselessly reject all of the Lord’s offers for your salvation. This sounds difficult to do, but it is not as hard as you might think. We do it all the time, countless little sins committed every day eventually put you further and further away from God until you are so far away that you don’t even recognize that you are now committing deadly sins, that put your immortal soul in peril.

All sin is hated by God, but some sin cries out to God for justice. These sins are so grave that you are so far from god, that the promise of the eucharist and the sacrifice of the holy mass cannot forgive you. The forgiveness in the eucharist is only offered for those that are truly in communion with God and His church. If you do something so grave, that you are no longer in loving friendship with Him, and completely outside of His church, then the only way back into communion is to reconcile, and restore that relationship through the sacrament of confession.

These “mortal sins” are the sins that God is referring to in today’s reading that “reject Him”, and must be judged. As St. Paul says “nothing unclean can enter heaven.” Which means that those that reject Him through their connection to their mortal sin, are thus unclean. This short statement reveals a simple truth. If you reject God, His Law, and His very nature written on your soul, then you cannot, simultaneously, wish to be with Him forever in heaven. You cannot both hate Him and love Him at the same time. So you must reconcile that, reject your attachment to sin, and turn only to Him, and love Him, and in so doing you will find yourself come out of the darkness, and into the light of Jesus. And in that light, you will then see the glory of God, and enjoy an eternity of Joy and happiness with Him in Heaven.

Oh, lord please help me today, not fall into this horrible separation from you, and instead be in loving communion with you forever.