Let me see if I can illustrate it. Suppose I am dying of some terrible disease, and I am given up by the physicians, who said I must die. But there comes a man whom I have known for years, and he says, " You are a dying man " I say to him, " I know it; I don't want anyone to tell me that?' He says to me, " But there is a remedy," I say, " I don't believe there's any remedy; I have tried all the leading physicians, and they say there is no hope."
" I tell you there is a remedy! " says he; " twenty years ago I was as far gone as yourself, and I was given up by all the physicians to die, but I took that medicine (and he holds it out to me), and it cured me. Listen now-there is the medicine, it shall not cost you a farthing; just take it, and you will get well." But I do not take it, though I have every reason to believe the man is speaking the truth. To be sure I shall die. but that is not the reason why I die; it is because I spurn the remedy. And if men die eternally it will not be God's fault, but because they had despised the remedy. They are lost, not because they are sinners, but because they rejected the Savior."