Alas! how many perish, utterly dead to the sense of sin, altogether indifferent to the love of God! A patient greeted his physician with a smile, “Doctor, I shall get well now: I feel no pain.” The physician mournfully shook his head; the fatal symptom had showed itself—mortification had set in.
I feel no pain! I do not feel my sins, I am dead to the mercy of God, insensible to the sufferings of Jesus for sinners. Ah! these are fatal symptoms of being dead in trespasses and sins!
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.” (John 5:2525Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. (John 5:25)).