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(Acts 28:26) Go to this people and say, "You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”
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That sentence, a quotation from Isaiah 6:9-10, was a third of Paul’s last statement to these people. That statement concluded Luke’s account of the Acts of the Holy Spirit. It is not a happy ending. It describes ultimate misery because it describes the worst possible experience: unending darkness. God perpetual answers both ultimate and immediate questions. He prioritizes meaning and purpose, but some people perpetually close their eyes and ears from being healed by Him.
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The most frightening, insufferable pain is not physical but relationship and existential. It is isolation, meaninglessness, rejection (death), and loss of liberty (choice and responsibility). Rejecting the Good News of Jesus Christ leaves us only with intolerable answers. That absence leaves only everlasting and dark ignorance of real answers.
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Lord, I want to know You. I long to know the power of Your resurrection, as well as my share of Your suffering and death. Only that way may I know eternal life. (Philippians 3:10).
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