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September 28, 1986
When religious teachers and leaders mocked Jesus and denied His identity, Jesus warned that they would die in their sins. Today, a statement like this seems confrontational and parochial. As Alistair Begg reminds us, though, we cannot know the joy of a relationship with Christ without first recognizing our sinful condition before a holy God. The attitudes of the Pharisees show us the characteristics of those who will face condemnation—and the only qualification for salvation is our trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
21So he said to them again, f“I am going away, and gyou will seek me, and hyou will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” 22So the Jews said, i“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” 23He said to them, j“You are from below; I am from above. kYou are of this world; lI am not of this world. 24I told you that you mwould die in your sins, for nunless you believe that oI am he you will die in your sins.” 25So they said to him, p“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. 26I have much to say about you and much to judge, but qhe who sent me is true, and I declare rto the world swhat I have heard from him.” 27They did not understand that the had been speaking to them about the Father. 28So Jesus said to them, “When you have ulifted up the Son of Man, vthen you will know that wI am he, and that xI do nothing on my own authority, but yspeak just as the Father taught me. 29And zhe who sent me is with me. zHe has not left me alone, for aI always do the things that are pleasing to him.” 30As he was saying these things, bmany believed in him.
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