Friend, are you only living for yourself? Is your one desire to make money, to enjoy life, to win a place for yourself, to gain the world? Then you are living without God. Oh, you may go to church on Sunday as a matter of conscience, or of form, or of habit; but you do not go to meet with God, nor to hear Him speak to you.
This is exactly your condition, if unconverted; it is a very pitiable, a very sad state.
You think with compassion of the heathen who have never heard of God. Your own condition is worse: you are more responsible, more guilty. You have the knowledge of God and of His Christ within your reach; the heathen have not. Your sin is greater: your condemnation will be heavier than theirs.
You are living a godless life by deliberate choice. YOU DO NOT WANT GOD.
You want your fill of sin, of the pleasures of the world. You cultivate your taste for these, and for these you give up or neglect the Gospel of God and the God of the Gospel. You cannot have God and sin, Christ and the devil, salvation and the lusts of the flesh. You choose sin, and turn from God.
Thus you live; thus you must die.
There will not, can not be any re-casting of your choice in eternity. As you choose here, you realize there. No God here on earth; no God in eternity. Is not that just and right? You cannot refuse to reap what you sow, to abide by your choice.
Look at the matter fully, honestly, squarely. Think of the consequences, the eternal results of remaining unconverted, of dying without God. "Why will ye die?" There is no reason why you should. Christ has come: come to seek and to save the lost. YOU are one of them; all who live "without God" are.
All who believe the Gospel of God, owning themselves as lost and Christ as their only Savior, are in Him "made nigh" (Eph. 2:1313But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13)), and are saved for all eternity.
Own yourself the sinner that you are—for "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Rom. 3:2323For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23). Take Christ, the Savior that He is: for "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."