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The Most Terrible of all Terrible Things

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The Most Terrible of all Terrible Things

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True believers die in the Lord, and this imparts a character and preciousness to their death delightsome to God. What significance and depth of meaning in these words—“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord”! The thought of dying out of Christ may well impart to the unbeliever a fearful dread of dying. Such may truly regard death as the most terrible of all terrible things. Unconverted reader! better never to have been born into this world than to pass into the next out of Christ. It is to die as you were born—in sin, in rebellion against God, unconverted, under the curse, and condemned for ever. “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36). Oh, to confront the “king of terrors” with all your sins upon you, with all your guilt attaching to you, cherishing the enmity against God of your carnal mind, the weapons of rebellion in your hand, the love of sin, and the supremacy of Satan and the slavery of the world in your heart! Oh! is this the proper state in which to stand before a holy and a righteous God? Are you willing to die in this condition? Have you made up your mind to go into eternity without reconciliation, without pardon, without the wedding-garment, without an interest in Christ? Surely you have not seriously and intelligently considered your position, nor have weighed—if, indeed, they can be weighed—the fearful consequences of dying in your sins, unrepentant, unbelieving, unconverted. Think of passing through that dark, mysterious avenue that leads from time into eternity, without the presence of Jesus! Think of finding yourself disembodied in the world of spirits, yourself a spirit, affrighted, agitated, trembling, your escort up to the judgment-seat lost, condemned spirits like your own! Think of appearing before the tribunal of Infinite Justice without a plea, without an argument, without a Savior! Think of the trial, think of the scrutiny, think of the unveiling of your whole life, think of the sentence, think of the condemnation—banishment from God, exile from heaven, the loss of the soul, the undying worm, the unquenchable fire, forever dwelling with the devil and his angels! “Take ye the unprofitable servant, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Awful words to fall from the Lamb of God, who died on Calvary for the greatest of sinners! Have you carefully pondered these things? “What wilt thou say when He shall punish thee?”

But there is hope! Death has not yet cited you to Christ's dread bar. Thine adversary has not yet delivered thee to the judge. God yet gives thee space for repentance. Count His longsuffering salvation. Repent! Ground your weapons beneath the cross! Fall in the dust before God! Cry mightily to Him for mercy! Escape for thy life, and look not behind! Betake you to Christ, and give not sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids until you have shut yourself within Christ, where not a drop of the wrath of God shall ever touch you. Need we remind you what a Savior He is, that He casts out none who come to Him, that He welcomes all poor penitents, heals every broken heart, binds up every wounded spirit, washes in the fountain of His blood the guiltiest, clothes the naked, pardons the vilest, accepts the chief of sinners, and saves to the uttermost all that come to God by Him—and all this on the ground of His most free, unconditional grace? “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?”

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