If preacher shows from the Bible that we are sinners and that our state is far worse than we think, then accept it humbly, else it will cost you your place at court – it will cost you eternity. It is the evangelist’s business to expose human sin. He must show the ugliness of our pride, the shame of deceitfulness, the meanness of self-centredness. We have to be troubled by these things and see that our sins have brought us under God’s condemnation. Don’t refuse to listen and stalk off saying, ‘I won’t hear this.’ How will you get to heaven then, if you have spurned God? Don’t be offended, or haughty, or start denying your guilt. To run from God is madness just because we don’t like his standards. Yield to him in repentance, rather than becoming an eternal fugitive. To accept and repent brings eternal blessings. If our failings are exposed, admit it is true and confess your sins to God. Yielding pacifies great offences against God. Come to Christ and ask him to forgive you freely. Self-will walks away from God, and finds God’s view objectionable. It cannot bear the ‘Thou shalt nots’ of his law. Self-will shuts us out of heaven. Don’t abandon your position as a supplicant seeking his mercy; prepare yourself to hear hard things about your conduct and your character. Realise that all your good comes from God and that you must, at all costs, obtain his favour. Remember that if he says hard things against you, it is not in order to destroy you, but to bring you to sincere repentance; that after he has humbled you, in due time he will exalt you. If you turn away at this point you will have nowhere else to go, but will be a rebel, on the run from God all the days of your life.