Sinners Will Not Come

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. - Jeremiah 29:13

    Men do not perish, because they cannot come to Christ, but because they will not come to Christ Jesus. Our Lord said, “You will not come to me, that you may have life” (John 5:40). Man's ruin lies completely in his perverse will! Is this not true? He cannot come to the only Saviour who can relieve his fallen condition, because he will not come! Help enough is provided, "For he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them" (Heb 7:25).

    Again, the Lord cried saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink" (John 7:37). This is the condemnation, men love darkness rather than life, and men perish, not because they cannot come to the fountain of life, but because they will not come! Salvation is of the grace of Christ alone, and condemnation is wholly of ourselves. Man's heart will not submit to be wholly saved by grace through faith and he will not receive the Lord Jesus Christ as his only Prophet, Priest, and King.