Well, we haven't many more messages
to bring from the book of Revelation, which we started looking at for
a second time in February, and we worked all the way through
to Revelation chapter 22. And I want to focus particularly
on the Tree of Life, and I've called this message Access to
the Tree of Life. There's very, very profound things
in this idea and if it please God that he will reveal them
to us and reveal them in us and show us the meaning of these
things. When the Lord Jesus Christ came,
when he was in the midst of his ministry, John records, the Apostle
John records in chapter 10 and verse 10 that Jesus said this,
I am come that they might have life. Why has Christ come? That his people might have life
and that they might have it more abundantly. Abundant life. Abundant life. I am come they
might have life. and have it more abundantly. In 1 John chapter 5, we get the
same idea in verse 20. We know that the Son of God is
come. Yes, God became a man. The Son of God is come. The Christ,
the Messiah of the Old Testament, forecast in the Old Testament,
foretold in the Old Testament, He did indeed come in the flesh. He was born, He was Son of God,
but Son of Mary. He was born, He was the two natures,
man and God in perfect union in that one person. We know that
the Son of God is come and has given us an understanding that
we may know Him that is true. And we are in Him that is true. How are we in Him? in His Son,
Jesus Christ. That's the only way you can be
in God, united with God, is in His Son, Jesus Christ. This is
the true God. and eternal life. Could you have
any clearer statement in Holy Writ? This, his son Jesus Christ,
this is the true God and eternal life. What is it that bars people
from the abundant life of God? What is it that bars them? Turn
back with me in your Bibles, please, because I think this
is where the key is. Turn right to the very beginning, to Genesis
chapter 3. You know about the fall. You
know Genesis 1 and 2 is the paradise of God in a probationary period
for Adam and Eve in that garden. But then in chapter 3, the serpent
has come and he's beguiled Eve and they've fallen into sin.
And Adam, for love of his wife, has fallen into sin and taken
the whole of his progeny, the whole of the human race with
him. As in Adam, all die. In the day you eat thereof, said
God to them, you shall surely die. But they did eat of it.
They did eat of it. And ever since, death has reigned.
But in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 22, just follow these verses
with me. And the Lord God said, this is
after he's pronounced the curse on Satan. pronounce that they're
going to have trouble and difficulty because of sin. In verse 22,
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us. He's become like God in the sense
of knowing good and evil. He only knew good before, but
now he knows evil. And now, lest he put forth his
hand and take also of the tree of life and eat. And what would
be the result if he took of the fruit of the tree of life and
ate? There it is. He would live forever. Let's
stop him from doing that. Why? Because he's sinned. Because
he's fallen short. He's brought down the curse upon
him. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of
Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. Dust you
are, and to dust you shall return. So he drove out the man. And
he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims and
a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of
the Tree of Life. I prefer the translation of that
verse 24 that's in Jameson, Fawcett and Brown's commentary, and it
says this, So he drove out the man, And he, that is God, dwelt
at the east of the Garden of Eden between cherubims as a shekinah,
or as a fire sword, to keep, to guard open the way to the
Tree of Life. To make sure that way to the
Tree of Life stayed open, but only in the way that he prescribed. You see, it was sin and transgression
of God's law. That's what sin is. What is sin?
It's the transgression of the law of God. It's transgression
of that righteous, holy perfection, which is God and all that flows
from Him. Sin is the transgression of that.
It's the breaking of it. And the fruit of my sinful nature
is, as Isaiah said in his prophecy, Isaiah 59 and verse two, He says,
to sinful people like you and me, like everybody else, for
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. He says
this, your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and
your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear. Remember
that for in a few minutes time. Your sins have hid his face from
you. Your sins have hid his face from
you. Is there a way to God? Is there a way to the tree of
life? It says in Genesis 24, he put
a fire sword there, God dwelt there with a fire sword, to keep
open the way to the tree of life. They couldn't get access to it
directly in their own strength as they wanted. but he put a
fire sword there to keep open the only acceptable and accessible
way to the tree of life and to the life of God. Is there a way
to God? Is there a way for sinners such
as we are, you and me, sinners deserving of the condemnation
of God? Sinners that God cannot tolerate
in his sight, for he is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity,
and cannot tolerate sin. Is there a way to God, to the
life of God? Is there access to the tree of
life? Is there? I know in the minds
of some of you, there's a verse that I'm going to turn you to
now. Rattling around there, John chapter 14. Turn to John chapter
14 and verse 2. John chapter 14 and verse 2,
and let's read together down to verse 6. This is just after
Peter has brazenly and boldly said that if everybody else leaves
Jesus on the night of his betrayal, he will not leave him. He'll
stand there solidly with him. And Jesus said, verily, verily,
I say to you, the cock shall not crow until you have denied
me three times. The very opposite of what you've
just committed to do. But he says, let not your heart
be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in me. In my father's house are many
mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and
receive you unto myself. Listen, that where I am, there
you may be also. And whither I go, ye know. And the way ye know, Thomas saith
to him, Lord, we know not where you're going, whither thou goest.
And how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. Is there a way to the tree of
life, to the life of God? Yes, Jesus Christ, he is the
way, the truth, and the life. He is that way in Genesis 3 24
that God kept open that the fire sword of God kept open he is
that way the Lord Jesus Christ there is no other way to come
and immediately after that when you read into Genesis 4 you see
that Abel came by that way with a sacrificial lamb and Cain came
with the works of his hands and the fruit of his efforts. And
God accepted the one and he wouldn't accept the other. And Abel had
access to the tree of life. Not literally, but he had access
to the life of God in his soul. And the way was the way of blood
redemption from the curse of sin. What's the curse of sin?
The soul that sins, it shall die. In the day that you eat
thereof you shall surely die. That's the curse of sin, and
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But We read
this glorious statement in the Gospel of Grace, in Galatians
3.13, that Christ has redeemed us, has paid the liberty price,
has paid the release price from the curse of the law. Are you
under the curse of the law? I'm certainly under the curse
of the law, as I am by nature, but Christ has redeemed us from
the curse of the law. How? He himself stood as substitute,
being made a curse for us. He was made that curse for us.
He bore the wrath and the penalty of God under that curse, and
thereby he paid its debt. He cleared its debt. The debt
of sin is death. That's its wages, Romans 6. The
wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus, the Lord. Christ has finished the work. John 19 on the cross, when he
cried, it is finished, and bowed his head. Finished doesn't just
mean got to the end of it. The word there really means paid
the debt in full. The debt is paid in full. What
debt? The debt of sin to the justice
of God, of the people whom he loved before the beginning of
time. And how did he pay it? With his own sinless, precious
blood. We remember it in communion,
in the wine that speaks, speaks as a reminder of that precious
blood of Christ. You are not redeemed with silver
and gold, said Peter, but with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Has God revealed
this gospel truth to you? You may have heard it. Some of
you, I'm sure, that either are listening now, here or out there,
or in days to come. I know over coming days, more
and more people look at these broadcasts and listen to the
sermon. Many have heard it, and some of you have heard it very
often. But has God revealed it in your
soul, in your soul, inside you? When Paul said, when it pleased
God who separated me from my mother's womb to reveal his son
in me. Has God revealed his son, the
truth of his son, the gospel of his grace in your soul? Has
he given you faith? Has he given you that sight of
the soul to see and trust the things of God? To trust that
this redemption that Christ has accomplished was for you, so
that you can say with Paul in Romans 8 verse 1, there is therefore
now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Who
shall lay any charge to my case? Who can accuse me? Can Satan,
the accuser of the brethren, come and rightly hold me up before
the justice of God and say, there he is a sinner? And the answer
is no. Why not? Paul gives his answer
in that same Romans chapter eight. The reason is that Christ has
died for his people. There is nothing left to answer.
When the sins of Judah and Israel are looked for, says Jeremiah
50 and verse 20, they shall not be found. You say, well, I can
look for my sins and I can find them. I'm telling you on the
strength of scripture in that day, for all who are believing
in the Lord Jesus Christ, those sins will not be found. You will
hear only this, come ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world. So if you can say
that, that there is therefore now no condemnation for you,
despite your sin, your doubts, your backsliding, yes, we all
do, don't we? You know, scripture's so honest
about the failings of its heroes, isn't it? We're currently in
some of our morning readings, reading through 1 and 2 Samuel,
You say, oh, there's David, a man after God's own heart. But when
you look, what a sinful record. What a sinful record, so weak
in the flesh yet he showed him the gospel of grace. Despite
all of that, you know that your name is written in the Lamb's
book of life. You know that because he's shown
you it, that he died for you. that he died for you. And if
free grace, why not for me? He's shown you, yes, for you.
And the paradise of God is certainly your eternal inheritance. These
first five verses of Revelation 22 are paradise regained. The paradise of God that was
lost in Eden is regained, never to be lost again. The paradise
of God. You know this verse as well,
you know it well, but, where have I put it? I haven't marked
it, never mind, but in Luke chapter 23, you know the account, Luke's
account of the crucifixion, Jesus between the two malefactors,
the two criminals, they two dying justly, they deserved what they
got, and They're railing against him and saying, if you be the
son of God, save yourself and us. Come on, if you be the son
of God. And then one of them, miraculously, has the scales
taken from his eyes and he's enabled to see who this truly
is, the Lord Jesus Christ. And he says to the other one,
don't you fear God? Don't you know that we are here
because we deserve this punishment for our sins, for our crimes
against the society in which we live. And he said to the other
one, we're here justly, this is exactly what we deserve. And
turning to Jesus, he said, Lord, remember me when you come into
your kingdom. And Jesus replied this. There
they are. They're going to be dead in minutes,
hours at the most. They're dying there on the cross.
And Jesus says to him, this penitent thief, I tell you truly, this
day you shall be with me in paradise, in this paradise of God. What
is this paradise? It's beyond comprehension to
sinful man like you and me, but it is revealed in holy writ throughout
the scriptures. Throughout the scripture, there
is revelation of heaven again and again, that this is the culmination
of the kingdom of God. In the midst of death, there
is the hope of eternal glory. Psalm 39 verse five says, behold,
thou hast made my days in this life as an handbreadth, not very
much, and mine age is as nothing before thee. Verily, you know
how the proud and the powerful of this world strut around in
their arrogance, but listen what Scripture says. Verily, every
man at his best state is altogether vanity, altogether vanity, but
with sin removed, and sin forever removed, and Satan and all of
his hordes, and all those who follow him, and all those who
have his mark confined to what scripture calls the lake of fire,
and with the new Jerusalem revealed in the new heavens and earth,
as John sees it in Chapter 21 of Revelation 1 and 2, I saw
a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the
first earth, this one that we're in now, were passed away. And
there was no more sea, there was no more tumultuous sea of
humanity from which the beast of Satan rises up, this globalist
beast of Satan rises up to usurp the place of God. And he says,
I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, Jerusalem above, which
is free, is what Galatians calls it. I saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband. Even in the days in which we
live, I think most people know this, when people come to get
married, oh isn't such a fuss made of the adornment of the
bride. It's one of the key things of
the day. I know when Joan goes and does her wedding photography
and One of the key elements of it is the adornment of the bride
for the wedding, the dressing up of the bride, the making as
beautiful as possible. It's one of the key things of
it. A bride adorned for her husband. And then in verse three, verse
three, and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, look, what
does he achieve? Behold, the tabernacle of God
is with men. The tabernacle of God is with
men. The place where God dwells is
with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them and be their God. God with
his people in intimate communion. What could be higher? What could
be more... I can't think of a better word,
but it'll do. What could be more thrilling? as a life experience
than this abundant life of God and intimate communion with the
one who has created all things. You think of the lengths that
people will go to, to brush shoulders with the rich and famous of this
world. and how altogether vanity they
are in truth. But this is intimate communing
with the living God, with every trace and every consequence of
sin removed. You saw it in verse four. God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. This is a veil of
tears, is this life. There are highs and there are
lows. There are times of joy, but there are times of great
sadness. And he says, He'll wipe away all tears from their eyes,
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying. Neither shall there be any more
pain, for the former things are passed away. It's speaking in
language that we cannot rise up to. It's too high for me,
says the scripture elsewhere. this indescribably blissful existence,
in perfect harmony with God and all the ones that he has redeemed,
that multitude that no man can number, all around the throne
of God, all in symbol, but in the limited language of this
space and time, It's a magnificent city. We didn't look in detail
at the verses throughout the rest of chapter 21. It pictures
a city. We can't possibly translate from
the picture drawn there. You know, I said last time, you
couldn't get a city planner to picture it, to draw it, because
the things just don't make sense. A cube that's massive cube with
a wall of a certain height. How does that work? I don't know.
So we can't translate from the picture drawn, the symbolism
drawn here, to the reality that we shall experience in paradise. But it's speaking of an absolutely
blissful existence. And go down with me to Revelation
21 and verse 22, because all of it is temple. He says, I saw
no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are
the temple of it. In the best days of Old Testament
Jerusalem, in the days of Solomon, when the kingdom was totally
established and the temple had been built with the most magnificent
treasures, and the Queen of Sheba came. She was rich and wise,
but she came because she'd heard good things about Jerusalem and
Solomon and the wisdom of Solomon and the magnificence that was
there. And when she went away, she said, I'd heard about it,
but I hadn't imagined the half of it. It was so wonderful. This
is what we're talking about. That was the meeting place of
God with his people then, but now it's all temple. In this paradise of God, it's
all temple with his people there. As I've said before, the way
this world craves rubbing shoulders with fleeting celebrities and
rich people, Yet this is with the God of the universe, who
called all things into being. This is paradise restored. And
in the midst of it, there's chapter 22, verse 1, a pure river of
water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb. And in the midst of the street
of it, On either side of the river was the tree of life, which
bear twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations,
and there shall be no more curse, and so on. So, paradise is restored. There's the water of life. You
know, Jesus often talked about the gospel. He that believes
on me shall be like a water, a fountain of water of life,
welling up inside him. Here's the tree of life, that
tree of life that was in Genesis 1 and 2, that tree of life where
the way was barred. and only opened in the Lord Jesus
Christ, for he is the way, the truth, and the life. And this
tree bears fruits for healing, for the sustenance of the people
of God. And it says in verse three, there
shall be no more curse. There shall be no more curse.
I said it before, there shall be no more curse. Christ has
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse in
our place for us. And look, Verse four, and they
shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads.
You know we read earlier that they couldn't see his face? They
shall see his face. The face of God visible to all
his people. Turn back to Exodus chapter 33.
Exodus chapter 33. and verse 20. Moses is on the
mountain with God, and he's speaking with God, he's hearing the voice
of God, and he says, show me your glory. He says, you can't
see my face. Verse 20, he said, thou canst
not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. And I
think we could insert, there shall no sinful man see me and
live. And the Lord said, behold, there
is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock, and it shall
come to pass while my glory passeth by. What was the glory of God?
It was that he would be gracious to whom he would be gracious,
and he would have compassion and mercy on whom he would have
mercy. That's in verse 19. But as my glory passes by, that
I will put thee in the cleft, cleft, cleft of the crack in
the rock, and I will cover thee with my hand while I pass by.
Christ is that rock, rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide
myself in thee. And I will take away mine hand
and thou shalt see my back part, but my face shall not be seen. But here we are, in paradise
restored. And they shall see his face.
Sinful man, you and me, barred from seeing God's face, but in
Christ, even sinful man regenerated by God's Spirit, and given faith
to see and ears to hear, can see him. You know, go back to
John chapter 14 again, and just read a few verses on. After verse
six, he is the way, the truth, and the life. In verse seven,
if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. If
you know Christ, you will know the Father. For Christ said,
I and my Father are one. And from henceforth ye know him,
and have seen him. And Philip said unto him, Lord,
show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus said unto him, have
I been so long time with you, and yet thou hast not known me,
Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. How sayest
thou then, show us the Father? If you're looking at Christ,
you're seeing him. We who by sin cannot see the
face of God in Christ can see him. He says in 2 Corinthians,
Paul writes, 2 Corinthians chapter four and verse six, that God
who caused the light to shine in the darkness at creation has
shined in the hearts of his people to give them the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God, where? Where? In the face of
Jesus Christ. How do we see that face? How
do we turn, as that old chorus, we used to emotionally sing,
turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face, and
the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of
his glory and grace. We used to sing it with such
emotion, but what does it really mean, and did we ever know it?
How do we look full in his wonderful face? We look full in his wonderful
face in gospel truth and gospel doctrine. Here and now in his
word. This is the word of God. This
is the word who became flesh. This is the Lord. This is looking
full in his wonderful face, albeit through a glass darkly while
we're still in sinful flesh. But then, then, in closer clarity
and perfection, with nothing to mar it. And verse five, there
shall be no night there. They need no candle, neither
light of the sun. The Lord God giveth them light,
and they shall reign forever and ever. Do you believe this?
Look, verse six, he said to me, do you believe this? He said,
these sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the
holy prophets sent his angel, to show unto his servants the
things which must shortly be done. You know, that's what it
says right at the start of Revelation. This is why he gave this. It's
to show them what must happen. In Hebrews 1 and verse 1, he
says, God who at sundry times spake unto the fathers by the
prophets has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. He's
given us that revelation by prophets and other means, but now it's
by his Son clearly seen. And so whatever people might
say to you about the truth of God, as Romans 3 verse 4 says,
let God be true and every man a liar. Whatever truth man might
try to say, it's a lie compared with the truth of God. So do
you have this lively hope of an incorruptible inheritance.
We read it before, right at the start, in 1 Peter 1, verses 3
and 4. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy
hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. For all of us,
All of us, everybody hearing me now, whether you're a believer
or an unbeliever, this statement from scripture is absolutely
true. James chapter four and verse
14. This is what he says. This is
what he asks all of you. What is your life? And he answers
it. It is even a vapor that appeareth
for a little time and then vanisheth away. Are you conscious of that?
Oh, what a comfort it is. to have a solid assurance that
this is true for me, this is true for me, to rest confidently
in what God says in Philippians 1 verse 6 by the Apostle Paul.
He says, I am confident that he which hath begun a good work
in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. What
is the day of Jesus Christ? It's the day of judgment, when
he will divide his sheep from the goats, when he will bring
his people into this blessed paradise of God. Maybe you say,
well, that's okay for you if you want to believe it, but not
for me. I don't have any need for this
sort of stuff. It's just religious nonsense as far as I'm concerned.
The truth of God declares clearly that when you die, now listen
to me carefully. The truth of God declares clearly
that when you die, as you surely must, we all are, that knowing
Christ, and knowing the redemption he accomplished, and knowing
that that redemption applied to you, that will be the one
thing that you crave in that state. You will crave that thing
that you rejected in life. You will crave the knowledge
that Jesus Christ has died for me. You will crave it, but here's
the stark reality of the word of God. You will be denied it.
Let me just give you a brief analogy. It's in Hebrews chapter
12, and it's about Esau, Esau the brother of Jacob. And it
says, we need to be careful and we need to make sure that we
keep following. Lest there be any fornicator or profane person,
as Esau was, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
In other words, he despised the gospel of grace. He despised
it, and just for one morsel of meat, he despised that gospel
birthright. For ye know how that afterward,
this is it, This is what I'm talking about. This is what it
will be like when you leave this life without Christ. You know
how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing,
he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with tears. You will seek it
carefully with tears, but it will not be granted. Your eternal
state is determined by your condition now. I'll try and be quick with
this, but this is so important. Chapter 21 and verse 27, we read,
there shall in no wise enter into this paradise of God anything
that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination or makes a
lie, but only they which are written in the Lamb's book of
life. Your eternal state is determined
by your condition now. If your name is not written in
the Lamb's Book of Life, you shall not enter into the paradise
of God. Outside of the redemption that
Christ has accomplished, For his elect multitude, you are
what it says there. You are that which defiles, that
which works abomination, that which makes a lie. You cannot
be allowed access to the tree of life, which is God in Christ
himself in heaven. You cannot be allowed access
to it. You can only come in this life
by the guarded way, the Shekinah guarded way, Genesis 3, 24. And
Jesus, who is God manifest in the flesh. He is the one, no
man has seen God, says John chapter 1, 18. No man has seen God, the
only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father. He has
made him known. He has manifested God. Him in
whom the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily. Yes, that man. that they sat with and they dined
with and they ate with and they saw him die on the cross. In
him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He alone is the
way, that way to the tree of life. He is the tree of life
and he is the way to the tree of life. Do you want to come
to him. Look at verse 17. I wasn't going
to read this, but then I got Stephen to read down to verse
17. The spirit and the bride say come, and let him that heareth
say come, and let him that is a thirst come, and whosoever
will. Let him take of the water of
life freely. Do you will to come to him for
the water of life, for access to the tree of life? The door
is open now. Come, and he will in no wise
turn you away. John 6, 37, all that the father
giveth me, all the people that the father gave to the son from
before the beginning of time shall come to him, shall believe
him, shall trust him, shall be there, shall be amongst his sheep.
Their names are written in the Lamb's book of life. All that
the father gives to me will come to me. But listen to this, him
that comes to me, I will in no wise cast out. And so we can
sing with that hymn writer, and if free grace, why not for me?
There is no chance to come to him when you have left this life. Ecclesiastes 11 and verse three
says this. If the tree fall toward the south
or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there
it shall be. Look at verse 11 of chapter 22.
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. He which is filthy,
let him be filthy still. And he that is righteous, let
him be righteous still. And he that is holy, let him
be holy still. The state in which you lead this
life will be your state for timeless eternity. That is the message
of this. Oh, you say, oh, that's a harsh
thing to preach. How can you preach such a harsh
thing? I'll tell you how, because it's the truth of God. And if
you ignore it and pay no attention to it, you will pass from this
life into eternity in a lost condition, and you will never
be able to recover. Only Christ can make you the
righteousness of God in him, because he who knew no sin, 2
Corinthians 5, 21, he who knew no sin, Christ alone knew no
sin, he who knew no sin was made sin for us. He was made sin in
that, as he bore the sins of his people on the cross of Calvary,
he was made the sin of his people, that he might bear it, that he
was, found guilty of it because he bore it, not because he committed
it. He was found guilty of it because he bore it. And the just
wrath of God fell. Could God justly punish him if
he did not bear the sins of his people? He bore the sins of his
people and the justice of God was paid in full on him in the
place of his people. He's done that for all those
whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. You know
what the scripture calls them elsewhere? The elect of God.
Oh, we don't like that. Well, you don't like the Bible.
And you'll end up with scissors cutting out pages from your Bible
and be nothing left. Believe on him. Prove that your
name is written there. He says, is that all? Yeah, that's
what the scripture says. John 3, verse 36. What could
be clearer? Listen, listen, think on it,
meditate on it. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not the
Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.