False Professor in Christ: Will You Not Be Amazed and Disappointed When Christ Declares on That Last Day, "Depart I Never Knew You"?! Please Ponder This . . . .

Jesus separates the Sheep from the Goats on the Last Day of Judgment.

A Devotional for Wednesday May 27, 2026

From the pen of John Bunyan, British Baptist Pastor and author of

The Pilgrims' Progress

"Amazed by Their Disappointment"

“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God”

Hebrews 10: 31.

[The false professor’s] . . . disappointment will be fearful, so certainly it will be very full of amazement.

1. Will it not amaze them to be unexpectedly excluded from life and salvation?

2. Will it not be amazing to them to see their own madness and folly, while they consider how they have dallied with their own souls. And [they] took lightly for granted that they had that grace that would save them, but have left them in a damnable state?

3. Will they not also be amazed one at another, while they remember how in their lifetime, they counted themselves fellow heirs of life? To allude to that of the prophet, “They shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames” (Isaiah 13:8).

4. Will it not be amazing to some of the damned themselves, to see some come to hell that then they shall see come . . . [there]? To see preachers of the Word, professors of the Word, practitioners in the Word, to come . . . [there]. What wondering was there among them at the fall of the king of Babylon since he thought to have swallowed up all because he was run down by the Medes and Persians! “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations!” If such a thing as this will with amazement surprise the damned, what an amazement will it be to them to see such a one as he whose head reached to the clouds, to see him come down to the pit and perish forever like his own dung. “Hell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming; it stirs up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth” (Isaiah 14).