Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.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.
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… Either I surrender or I fight. Now, that's the way we find Jesus in this crowd that surrounded him in John chapter 8, verses 12 to 59. He is not around a crowd that had never heard of God. I want to make that clear. He is in a context of religion. As a matter of fact, one of the three great festivals of the year is where he was at the time he spoke the words of John 8, the Feast of Tabernacles. Remember the other time that he brought a sword? He said, Are any of you thirsty? Come to me and drink. They were pouring out the water from that sacred vessel on that sacred altar, and he said, Wait a minute! Let me tell you where real water is. It's in me, and you come to me, you'll never thirst again. Oh, that was a sword. And it started an argument that still hasn't ceased. Now, he comes to this place called the treasury, according to verse 20 of chapter 8. …
… question from the lips of Jesus. John 8, verse 21. Then He said again to them, I go away, and you will seek Me and will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come. He said, I'm going to heaven, and you're not. You will die in your sin, and where I am going you cannot come." He repeated it in verse 24. "'I said to you, you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.'" Three times he says you're going to die in your sins, and you're not going to be able to come to heaven unless you believe in Me. What sends people to hell? Not sin, unforgiven sin, unforgiven sin. We all sin, and we would all end up in hell if our sins were not forgiven. This is the message of Christianity, that God through His loving kindness has designed a way for sinners to be forgiven, and forgiven with such magnanimity that it could be spoken of as if it's removing your sins as far as the east is from the west, or burying them in the depths of the sea, or putting them behind His back, or remembering them no more. …
… Even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true. For I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from and where I am going. You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. And yet if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. And it is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. I am one who bears witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me. And then they said to him, Where is your father? Jesus answered, You know neither me nor my father. If you had known me, you would have known my father also. These words spoke Jesus in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no one laid hands on him, for his hour had not yet come. And then Jesus said to them again, I'm going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. …