John 8:21-24
21 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.” 22 So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come’?” 23 And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
We cannot follow Jesus through the grave and back as those in His time; they sought Jesus in their own wisdom and strength, and still were dying in their sin. He was going to heaven where God our Father is, and made it clear that the only way not to die in our sin is to believe He is the I Am, the Messiah God-man. Only believing in the divine Jesus as both the I Am and Son of Man keeps us from dying in sin by being saved from wrath in Him.
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