“YOU CANNOT COME!”

John 8:21-30                                    (ESV)

“[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.”

For we who are able to SEE, it is plain to UNDERSTAND that JESUS was trying to explain to “the Jews” (v.22) WHO HE was, and that they SPECIFICALLY would not be CHOSEN (Ephesians 1:4) to follow HIM, but they would be left behind because “you are of this world”!

Knowing that you are not CHOSEN has to be sickening?  The EYE OPENING thing is, those who are not CHOSEN aren’t able to grasp what is right before their EYES, that TRUTH is available to them to avoid what is coming to them at THE JUDGMENT.  We must be grateful that our EYES can SEE our wretchedness, that we are UNABLE to live HOLY enough to satisfy our needs. 

I pray that you will not HEAR one day that “YOU CANNOT COME”???