Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 25:30

"And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth." — Matthew 25:30 (ASV)

If we give any description of the world to come which is at all terrible, those who reject the Scriptures begin to cry out that we have borrowed it from Dante, or taken it from Milton;

but I venture to say that the most awful and harrowing descriptions of the woes of the lost that ever fell from human lip do not exceed or even equal the language of the loving Christ himself. Listen: Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

He is the true lover of human souls who does not deceive them. He who paints the miseries of hell as though they were insignificant is seeking to murder human souls under the pretense of being their friend.

May God give all of you grace to trust in Jesus for yourselves, and then to point others to him, for Christ's sake!

Amen.