Why Is This So Hard For People To Admit?
John 8:21-30
21 So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” 22 So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” 23 He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.” 25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. 26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.” 27 They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father. 28 So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. 29 And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” 30 As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
The world is in rebellion against God. The result of rebellion is death, because God is life, and when you move away from God, you move away from life. A cut flower can’t live on its own—it needs to be connected to its root. In the same way, a person who turns his back against God and rebels is cutting himself off from God, and when that person dies, he will face spiritual death.
The reason the Father sent the Son was to bring people back to life:
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him [John 3:16–17].
This is what Jesus is getting at when He says here:
24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins [John 8:24].
The point is not that Jesus came to judge healthy people and send them to their deaths, the point is that Jesus came to save sick and dying people and bring them to life!
All that is required to be saved is to believe in Jesus, that is to humbly acknowledge that you are stuck in sin and need to be saved.
QUESTION FOR THE DAY
Why is it so hard for people to admit that they need a savior?