Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

Luke 19:10; 2 Cor 4:3-6

📷INTRODUCTION: My friend rather than hide the means of salvation to a lost person there should be a search party out after them, Acts 1:8, Mark 16:20. Today the only thing to rescue man is hid. Luke 15

REASONS WHY THE GOSPEL IS HID, I Peter 2:9; Heb. 2:11; 11:16

Shame, Rom. 1:16; II Tim. 1:7-8; Acts 5:41; Rom. 5:5

Fear, II Tim. 1:7, 12: I Peter 4:16; Luke 1:74; Phil. 1:14

Selfishness (our money and time)

Playfulness

MANNERS OF HIDING THE GOSPEL

Silence, Mark 5:19

Socialism (forget)

Carelessness, Luke 24:32 Sin, Matt. 23

OBJECTS TO WHOM THE GOSPEL IS HID – "the lost" (ruined or destroyed—having wandered from or unable to find the way)—They are lost and blind. You imagine a blind man who is lost in an unknown wilderness searching for a straight pin, Acts 26:18. Man in cave

No sense of direction, Isa. 53:6; Prov. 27:8

No sight of deliverance

No salvation from destruction, Luke 13:3; Prodigal son

CONCLUSION: No one has ever been saved until someone uncovered the gospel to him, Rom. 10:14