Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
Men naturally abhor heavenly things, so none can be Christ's true disciple unless God's Spirit makes him so. Yet the world must necessarily perish, for it refuses the life offered to it. This is no accident; it is judgment upon refusal itself.
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Christ speaks words of terror now, not grace alone. The wicked will feel their loss when too late, they rejected Him freely offered, and repentance will be gone. He departs soon; the Gospel is preached to them only a season, and if they let this time slip, the appointed days for salvation will not return. When He knocks, we must go to meet Him at once, lest He grow weary of our sloth and withdraw.
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You will seek the Messiah you expect, but He will not come. You rejected me, your only Saviour, so you must die unpardoned. There comes a time, often in the dying moment, when sinners seek deliverance but find none. Where I am is heaven, His favour and mercy; where I am not, with these withheld, is hell. The sinner without a Saviour must be wretched for ever.
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