"But Christ being come an High Priest of good things to come . . ." (Heb. 9:11). The
good things to come are the good things of Christianity of which Christ is the Minister,
the things which we are now enjoying by faith.

But that does not exhaust the meaning of this expression. These things are also future.
We speak of being in the sanctuary as to our nearness and access to God; but actually,
as to the body, we are in the wilderness, subject to the changes and trials of the weary
way. The good things in their full manifestation are yet to come. They have been
brought to us by Christ, and the Holy Spirit has made them real to faith; but our
portion, our good things, are still to come. We have known the blessedness of sins
forgiven and peace with God, but there are still good things to come. We have known
the grace of Christ, have experienced it in many a trying circumstance. He has been
with us in the hour of bereavement, in trial, in disappointments. In everything that
would try the soul, Christ has been sufficient, and His High Priestly sympathy and
succor all that we required. But there are more good things to come.

How much the future has before us! This year which we have just entered_what is
hidden in its womb for us? We know not what a day may bring forth. But we do know
this, that there are good things to come in the future. The good things of Christ will be
sufficient for us for the rest of our lives.

Now contrast, for a moment, those "good things to come" with that awful word of
judgment, "the wrath to come."

Years of God’s patience, years of mercy despised, years of warning unheeded are
treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath. Ah, dear friends, that place of wrath, in
outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, is no temporary
banishment, no purifying fire. It is not a place from which a person will one day
emerge a wiser man, ready now to accept the finished work of Christ. Time has closed,
the day of grace is eternally past, and throughout eternity it will be still WRATH TO
COME. As you think of it, should it not fill the heart with yearning, with longing for
the salvation of souls? Should it not make us instant in season, out of season? Daily we
meet men who are going on to the wrath to come, and we are going on to the good
things to come. Shall we not, knowing the terror of the Lord, persuade men? Shall we
not entreat them, yea, shall we not go out and compel them to come in?