Matthew Henry states in his commentary on John 7:
“They should in vain expect a place in heaven: Where I (Jesus) am, and where all believers shall be with Me, thither ye cannot come. Not only because they are excluded by the just and irreversible sentence of the judge, and the sword of the angel at every gate of the new Jerusalem, to keep the way of the tree of life against those who have no right to enter, but because they are disabled by their own iniquity and infidelity: You cannot come, because you will not. Those who hate to be where Christ is, in His Word and ordinances on earth, are very unfit to be where He is in His glory in heaven; for indeed heaven would be no heaven to them, such are the antipathies of an unsanctified soul to the felicities of that state.”
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