3. The third passage is John 5:28, 29: +"Marvel not at this: for the
hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear His voice,
and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of
judgment."+ Here also it is clearly implied that the resurrection of
good and bad is for the purpose of judgment _regarding the things done
before their bodies were laid in their graves_.
4. A fourth passage, if possible more decisive than any of these, gives
our Lord's words, John 8:21: +"He said therefore again unto them; I
go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin, whither I
go, ye cannot come."+ Here our Lord distinctly declares that the
question whether men shall come to be with Him or not depends upon what
they do _before they die_, that if they die impenitent, if they "_die
in their sins_," that whither He goes they cannot come. To sum up the
teaching of all these passages, the issues of eternity, the issues of
eternal life or eternal destruction, the issues of eternal blessedness
and glory, or eternal agony and shame, are settled in the life that now
is.
IV. CONCLUSION
The future state of those who reject in the life that now is the
redemption offered to them in Christ Jesus is plainly declared in the
Word of God to be a state of conscious, unutterable, endless torment
and anguish. This conception is an appalling one, but it is the
Scriptural conception. It is the unmistakable, inescapable teaching of
God's own word.
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