Nowhere but in the
Scriptures, can we learn what is the real condition of the natural man. There
his case is diagnosed with unerring precision by the divine Physician.
Many are the terms used therein by the Holy Spirit to describe the solemn and
direful state to which the fall has reduced every descendant of Adam; and among
them probably none is more pointed and awesome than is the term LOST!
How dismal is its sound! How much is summed up in that single word! It signifies that the natural man is in a sinful, wretched, and perilous state that he is far astray from God, that he has willfully and wantonly forsaken the path of duty.
Lost! A traveler from time to eternity, treading the road that leads to certain and everlasting destruction!
Lost! A creature who has forfeited the approbation and favor of his Maker, and is now an outcast from Him!
Lost! One who has squandered his substance in riotous living, and is now a spiritual bankrupt and pauper. He is out of the way of peace and blessing, and utterly incapable of finding his way back to it!
How dismal is its sound! How much is summed up in that single word! It signifies that the natural man is in a sinful, wretched, and perilous state that he is far astray from God, that he has willfully and wantonly forsaken the path of duty.
Lost! A traveler from time to eternity, treading the road that leads to certain and everlasting destruction!
Lost! A creature who has forfeited the approbation and favor of his Maker, and is now an outcast from Him!
Lost! One who has squandered his substance in riotous living, and is now a spiritual bankrupt and pauper. He is out of the way of peace and blessing, and utterly incapable of finding his way back to it!
Fearful beyond words, is the condition of fallen man. His case
is as hopeless as that of a dying person whose disease is incurable. A lost
child is a pitiful object but what mind can estimate or pen depict the
tragedy of a lost soul? Lost now, lost forever unless a
sovereign God intervenes and performs a miracle of mercy for its recovery!
[A. W. Pink]
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2 Corinthians 4:3-4 ... But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Jeremiah 13:23 ... Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
John 3:18 ... He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ❤
