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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Ezekiel 33:11
‘Why will ye die?’
Read Isaiah 1:1-20
Multitudes of every generation perish in their sins, and are lost for ever in hell, though they have been well instructed in gospel truth. Why?
Since the day that our father Adam sinned against God and plunged our race into spiritual death, bringing upon all men God’s just wrath, man has tried to excuse his sin and shift the responsibility of his condemnation to someone other than himself. He arrogantly attempts to lay the blame for both his guilt and his damnation off on God. It cannot be done. If you go to hell, you will be without excuse; it will be your own responsibility. It will not be because your sins are so hideous that you could not be saved. All manner of sin may be forgiven. You will not go to hell because of God’s eternal decree. Nowhere in the Bible is it written that God predestinated anyone to go to hell. It will not be because of any lack of ability in Christ, or any lack of willingness on his part to save you. Christ is both able and willing to save all who come to him by faith. And you will not go to hell because you were never given a wide, free, sincere invitation to come to Christ and be saved. Our Lord says to you, ‘Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’ He says, ‘I have called, and ye refused.’ No, if you go to hell the simple fact is you will go to hell because you were unwilling to come to Christ for life. As he said, ‘Ye will not come to me that ye might have life.’
Try as you may to shift the blame for your lost and ruined condition, you cannot. You are lost because you will not be saved by Christ. J.C. Ryle was right when he wrote, ‘The loss of man’s soul is always attributed in Scripture to man’s own want of will to be saved.’ The axe must be laid to the root of the tree. If you are saved, it will be entirely God’s fault, the result of deliberate effort on his part. If you go to hell, it will be entirely your own fault, the result of deliberate effort on your part.
