“And how was He eventually revealed to you?” Christian asked. “I did not see Him with physical eyes but rather with eyes of understanding.”191 Then Hopeful began to relay the story. “One day I was very sad. In fact, I think I was more depressed than at any other time in my life, and it was because of fresh insight into how great and repulsive my sins were. As I was anticipating nothing but Hell and eternal damnation of my soul, suddenly I thought I saw the Lord Jesus looking down from Heaven on me, saying, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.’192 “But I replied, ‘Lord, I’m
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