Impossible to Die Unloved

I’m asking you to consider with me one of the most familiar verses in the entire Bible, John:3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
See All.... It is a verse that we have known since earliest childhood. It is an inexhaustible store of treasures of grace. It comprises more of God’s grace in fewer words than any other statement in the Scripture, in my opinion.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

It is a verse that is little understood by us. Since its first truth [that God loved us] is so clear and is so needful to us, we have a tendency to feel that is all there is in it.  Christianity is true, for I have known too many people who call themselves Christians.

If anyone goes into eternity lost and makes his eternal dwelling place in this place we have described as the penitentiary of the universe called hell, he will have to do it over the pleadings of the Word of God, and remonstrance of conscience, the warning of friends, and the ruling of the Holy Ghost. It is possible for a person to die unsaved, and many do, but it is impossible to die unloved.

-- Paris Reidhead (Missionary in Africa for many years, who later continued his effective ministry in the States pastoring and preaching)