It's No Comfort to Know...Unless

It is no comfort to know that I am horribly sick and I am going to die. 

In fact, some doctors are reluctant to tell their patients how serious their illness is if there is no cure. 

• For this knowledge won’t benefit them. 
• In some ways, ignorance is bliss. 
• The only time that such knowledge would really be of any benefit is when there is a cure. 

It is the same with my knowledge of my sin and misery. 

• If there was no forgiveness of sins and no redemption, 
• then I could just as well remain ignorant about my spiritual condition. 
• Yet if there is a cure, I want to be told about my disease 
• so that we might go to the physician who can heal us. 

Thus the knowledge of how great my sins and misery are 

• will only be of comfort to me 
• if I at the same time am told of the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. 

Thus the second aspect of that knowledge, 

• which is necessary to have as comfort, 
• is the knowledge of the deliverance, 
• which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

John 17:3 

• “And this is eternal life, 
• that they may know You, the only true God, 
• and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” 

Acts 4:12 

• “Nor is there salvation in any other, 
• for there is no other name under heaven given among men 
• by which we must be saved.” 

Acts 10:43 

• “To Him all the prophets witness that, 
• through His name, 
• whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.”