If anyone does not love the Lord, that person is . . .
(You will find it helpful to LISTEN to the Audio, as you READ the text below.)
1 Corinthians 16:22, "If anyone does not love the Lord, that person is cursed!"
If you do not love the Lord Jesus--then you are on the way to judgment, and then to eternal condemnation.
If you do not love the Lord Jesus, then you are going as fast as time can carry you--away, away, away to the gloomy land where not a single ray of hope will ever pierce the midnight darkness. Away, away, away, to the place of eternal despair!
If you do not love the Lord Jesus--then you are now in awful peril. You stand over the mouth of Hell upon a single plank, and that plank is rotten. You hang over the jaws of perdition by a slender thread, and the angel of justice is waiting to cut that thread in sunder!
Oh, how dreadful to live and die in this cursed state! And then to wake up on the resurrection morning and see the King in His beauty on the throne, and to know that you are eternally cursed! You will cry to the rocks to hide you, and to the hills to cover you, for you are cursed! Then to be brought out before the great white throne resplendent in its holiness, and hear the fact announced so that all may know that you are eternally cursed!
Ah, what will it be to see the bottomless pit open its mouth to devour you, and descending forever, to understand that you are not only cursed, but damned!
"Then He will say to those on His left: Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!" Matthew 25:41
Do I love You, O my Lord?
Behold my heart, and see;
And turn each cursed idol out,
That dares to rival Thee.
You know I love You, dearest Lord;
But O, I long to soar,
Far from the sphere of mortal joys,
And learn to love You more!
Philip Doddridge