Christ explained to His critics that the reason they could not “hear Him” was because they disobeyed God and therefore lacked the ability to understand what Christ taught. They did not have God as their Father, but instead, by disobedience, had the accuser as their father.
Christ’s message was given to Him by His Father. He tried to make that understandable to the people: “I have many things to teach that will be used to judge you; and the one who sent me is the Source of all truth. I am teaching what he has sent me to teach and he provided my message. They did not understand that he was speaking the words of Father Ahman. Then Jesus added, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am Son Ahman, and that I have done nothing on my own; but as my Father has taught me, I repeat his words. He sent me and accompanies me here; the Father has never abandoned my side. I always do the things that please him.” T&C 171: TSJ 6:16.
It is the message, not the messenger, that saves or condemns. Christ understood that He may not be appealing to some who met Him. That was understandable. But what He taught should have been respected. He put it this way: “I do not judge those who hear my words, but do not believe, because I did not enter the world to now judge it, but to be its savior. But when you reject my message, beware, because the message I was sent by the Father to deliver will separate you in the last day. He will divide you based on your submission to, or rejection of, his message. He has sent me to guide you, and he guides into endless lives, worlds without end. My message, therefore, is the Father’s.” T&C 171: TSJ 9:7.
Christ has sent His message, and we must hear and obey it if we want to respect His Father who sent both Him and the message: “And even so, I have sent mine everlasting covenant unto the world, to be a light to the world and to be a standard for my people, and for the gentiles to seek to it, and to be a messenger before my face to prepare the way before me.” T&C 31:3.
The latest message (or put differently, His message last of all) is found in our new volume of scripture, Covenant of Christ.