My largest concern that pains my heart the most are those that read this or hear or read others that speak truth and calmly except it into their minds but it never touches their hearts. Knowing or going along with doctrine or beliefs is not saving knowledge but rather may be condemning wisdom. I pray that the Lord pierce the heart of those that they may also believe. You, whom the truth has been revealed and you now find yourself without cloak and exposed, beg for mercy while there is still light. For there is a day that the light will go out on your way to hell.
Extra credit: Being that we touch today on the last day, I offer this from William Plumer written in the 1800s on Judgment.
Jhn 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Jhn 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
Jhn 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
Jhn 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father
Do these passages mean there was not sin before He came?
It is with some trepidation that I approach this today. I first fear I must press that a single drop of sin is enough and deserves to send a thousand men to hell. Any transgression of what we perceive as the smallest of degree against Gods Holy law must be punished. There are no sins less damming or for those He died for took less blood to fulfill its wrath. Next I pray that if you are not yet in His fold that you approach the truth with great trembling and anguish for your soul. Those things said, there are a number of passages that clearly teach that there are such as degrees of punishment to those who Christ did not die for, for those that die instead in their sins. (Matt 11:22, Heb 10:28-29) Today looking at our text, these men had the Son of God in their midst and rejected Him and His works. They had the Light and desired instead darkness. How much more the punishment for them. They had His word from His mouth and turned not an ear. They have now no cloak, no excuse, and no hiding place. For they had the truth and light and hated both Father and Son. Oh how this should touch the heart with great fear for those that are not His, believes not His word, and read this today. To those that the truth has been given and you reject it in whole or part. Judgment shall come in the light you have been provided. The Lord has provided you His word, truth, light, and believing it not leaves you without a cloak, excuse, or hiding place.
