Lost People
People are LOST! Not misplaced, not disoriented, not shipwrecked on an island, not stranded at sea, not trapped in an elevator, but lost forever and ever in a doom so terrible even Jesus had to illustrate it as a place "where the worm will not die and the fire is not quenched."
Their only hope is Jesus. Will you make the 911 call to the throne of God for them?
Will you stand in the gap? Will you plead their case before the Father? Will you hold the ropes before they die?
We who love John 3:16 need to read it more carefully. There is certainly the expression of the immense love of God for a lost world, but in that same sentence there is a aweful revelation of the word "perish."
16. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because
their deeds were evil.
A.W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God,
Chapter 7: The Sovereignty of God and Human Will
When addressing the unsaved, preachers often draw an analogy between God's sending of the Gospel to the sinner, and a sick man in bed with some healing medicine on a table by his side: all he needs to do is reach forth his hand and take it. But in order for this illustration to be in any wise true to the picture which Scripture gives us of the fallen and depraved sinner, the sick man in bed must be described as one who is blind (Eph. 4:18) so that he cannot see the medicine, his hand paralyzed (Rom. 5:6) so that he is unable to reach forth for it, and his heart not only devoid of all confidence in the medicine but filled with hatred against the physician himself (John 15:18).
O what superficial views of man's desperate plight are now entertained! Christ came here not to help those who were willing to help themselves, but to do for His people what they were incapable of doing for themselves: "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house" (Isa. 42:7).
Really Lost
To describe the lost in God's real terms we must say they are blind, deaf, paralyzed, will-less, enslaved to sin, devoid of understanding, suspicious of any medicine God might offer and hating the physician, willing captives,
under the control and power of Satan's kingdom, unable to understand spiritual things, alienated from the life of God, condemned already to Hell)
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Lost People