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and God in Christ is seeking sinners
Friend, has God’s Holy Spirit revealed still, just because they are still LOST.
to you that you are a sinner or are you It may be that you readily admit that
still blinded to the wickedness of your the Bible teaches that, as sinners, we
own heart? are all utterly ruined and LOST. But do
Has He shown you how miserable, you feel that the Bible is talking to you
exceedingly sinful you are before Him? when it comes to you personally, and
Has He convicted or convinced you says, You are a sinner: you are ruined
that you are “condemned,” ruined, lost, and lost, for you are “condemned
and in danger of hell fire? already,” (John 3:18) and the wrath of
I wish you were so convinced: I pray God abides upon you? (John 3:36).
God you may be so, even this very Do you believe that you are a sinner,
moment; for were you to die without who has gone his own way, LOST and
being awakened to the fact that you without hope? Have you seen SIN in
are a miserable, wicked, lost sinner, you your heart? Have you seen and felt it to
will wake up in hell, forever in regrets be a poison which has passed through
and torment throughout eternity. every part of your moral nature?
Perhaps you say, “I admit I am a Or you are deceived with your
sinner, I know that I have sinned; but I tithing and giving, your church and
cannot understand what you mean by your religion. Friend, let me submit to
saying that I am a lost sinnera ruined you that your money, your pastor, your
sinner. I am not lost; I am not ruined, as church and religion can NEVER save
you say.” you.
Well, I know you are not finally LOST, Many boast on the fact that they are
or you would not be here. Bless God tithers and givers yet they habitually
for that mercy. But if you say you are practice fornication, adultery, idolatry,
not LOST, you’ve put yourself in an gossip, and malice. They think that
awkward position. their many good works is what will
You have nothing to do with the commend them before God. Let these
Saviour, for He came “to seek and to read Isaiah 1:10-17 and reconsider
save that which was lost,” (Luke 19:10) their theology.
of which you say you are not one of the Many again are deceiving themselves
lost. by thinking just because they are
Friend, wether you know it or not, we members of their churche, they are
are all lost and need to be found by the saved.
grace of God. Did you know that many despite of
For those who say are saved, can their much involvement in the church
you go back to the time when you saw are LOST and will end up in hell forever,
yourself lost, world without hope? If unless they repent of their sins, their
you can’t, I’ m afraid you are still lost. dependence upon church membership
You see, man, as soon as he fell, was and on their religion and be brought to
LOST, for God’s first question implies Jesus for pardon and peace?
just this  “Adam, where art thou?” Religion, you see, saves none! The
(Gen. 3:9). precious blood of Christ alone, (1 Peter
You see, God in grace was seeking 1:19), can save us from SIN and from
man at the Fall, because he was LOST; God’s fierce wrath.

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