We Must Believe or Perish

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John 5:24

Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life…

If a man will not do that which is necessary to a certain end, I do not see how he can expect to gain that end. You have taken poison, and the physician brings an antidote, and says, "Take it quickly, or you will die. If you take it quickly I will guarantee that the poison will be neutralized." But you say, "No, doctor, I do not believe it; let everything take its course; let every tub stand on its own bottom; I will have nothing to do with you, doctor." "Well, sir, you will die, and when the coroner's inquest is held on your body the verdict will be, 'Served him right.'" So it will be with you, if, having heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, you say, "Pooh-pooh! I am too much of a common-sense man to have anything to do with that, and I shall not attend to it." Then, when you perish, the verdict given by your conscience, which will set upon the King's quest at last, will be a verdict of felo-de-se. He destroyed himself.

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