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So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” John 8:21
D.L. MOODY
One sentence from the lips of the Son of God in regard to the future state of unbelievers has forever settled it in my mind. And you“shall die in your sins; whither I go, ye cannot come.” If a man has not given up his drunkenness, his profanity, his licentiousness, his covetousness, heaven would be hell to him. Heaven is a prepared place for prepared people. What would a man do in heaven who cannot bear to be in the society of the pure and holy down here?
ERWIN LUTZER
Perhaps you have noticed the word sin has basically dropped from our culture’s vocabulary. But if you have a wrong view of sin, you will be wrong about everything in the world that really matters. Your understanding of sin determines who you are as a person and your understanding of God’s grace. Without understanding “the sinfulness of sin” we will trivialize our sin.
When sin is exposed, our first tendency as humans is to deny it, then we minimize it, and finally, we compare our sin to someone else who we think is worse than we are. So, we go our way through life managing our sin, doing the best we can. We who love evil cannot begin to love good. We need God’s intervention. Through Christ’s work on the cross, God opens our hearts to believe in Him and then we begin to hate sin. Apart from God, we remain dead in our sins and eternally separated from Him.
PRAYER
Lord, show me the enormity of my sin so that I might rejoice in the enormity of your grace.REFLECTION QUESTIONS
When you accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior, what changes did you notice in your life?Read Colossians 2:13. What can a dead person do to make themselves alive?