"6 REASONS PEOPLE ARE LOST AND NEED SALVATION"
1. They are lost because of their rejection Of biblical revelation.
Ps. 19:1-4
"The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament 1shows His handiwork.
Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech nor language
Where their voice is not heard.
Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world."
Rom. 1:18-23
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and 7Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.”
2. They are lost because of disobeying their own conscience.
Rom. 2:14-16
“for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.”
3. They are lost because of their relationship to the world.
Eph. 2:1-2
“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the 1course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience”
James 4:4
“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
1 John 2:15-17
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever”
1 John 5:19
“We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.”
4. They are lost because of their relationship to Satan.
2 Cor. 4:4
“whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”
Col. 1:13
“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,”
1 John 3:10
“In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.”
5. They are lost because of their relationship to sin.
Gen. 2:17
“but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Jer. 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?”
Rom 5:12
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned”
Rom 7:14
“For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.”
Eph. 4:18 – 19
“having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”
6. They are lost because of their relationship to God.
Eph. 2:12
“that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”
1 John 5:12
“He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
