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Truth About Lost People
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Romans 10:14-21
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*©February 13, 2005 Rev. Bruce Goettsche*
Jesus told a number of parables, or stories with a purpose, while he was on the earth.
In Luke chapter 15 Luke gathered three stories all with a similar theme: the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son.
In each one there is a frantic search and passion for that which is lost followed by a great celebration when the item was found.
The point of these parables is that this is the way God feels when a lost person repents and comes to Him.
It is not a particularly popular today to talk about people who are “lost”.
It is politically incorrect and it makes the speaker sound rather arrogant.
However, it is a term that Jesus uses.
A lost person is one who has not yet come to a point of faith and trust in Christ.
They may be searching for truth but they are looking for it in all the wrong places.
Have any of you women ever been lost when you are traveling (we know that no man ever is lost)?
When we are lost we may keep driving but we have no sense of direction.
You don’t know whether you are moving in the right direction or the wrong direction.
There is an uneasiness that comes with being lost that can make you irritable.
Sometimes children who are lost in a store will start to cry because they just don’t know where to turn or who to trust.
The person who has not found peace with God through faith in Jesus lives their life like this.
They keep moving but they have no sense of meaning or purpose in their life.
They avoid thinking about ultimate issues because they don’t know where to start.
They tend to live for the moment figuring they don’t have to address eternal issues until they are ready to die.
They may be angry.
A former President of the Southern Baptist churches got into trouble a couple of years ago because he suggested that Jewish people were unsaved and they needed to be converted to Christ.
His words created a firestorm of protest.
He was considered to be a judgmental bigot.
However, what this man said was really no different than what the apostle Paul said in Romans 10.
Paul said the Jews had “zeal without knowledge”.
He explained that a person must trust and confess Christ as Savior and as Lord to be a child of God.
He concluded saying, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
As we continue our study Paul gives us valuable information about lost people.
!!! THE ONLY HOPE FOR PEOPLE IS TO HEAR THE GOSPEL
/How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?
And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
And how can they preach unless they are sent?
As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”/
The argument of Paul is clear: if anyone trusts Christ they will be saved.
Before this can happen they have to know the Lord and what is necessary for salvation.
In order for this to happen, someone is going to have to tell the person.
Before someone can tell another person, they must go.
We can talk about the lost, whine about the state of the world, and pray constantly for revival; however, nothing is going to change unless someone shares the gospel message with those who do not know.
The problem is that we think more people understand the gospel than they actually do.
Have you ever watched Jay Leno in a segment he calls Jay-walking?
In this segment, Leno goes out on the streets and interviews people.
He asks them questions that most of us would think would be obvious and he gets all kinds of wild answers.
For example, he might show a person on a University campus a picture of Vice-President Dick Cheney and ask, “Who is this?”
He gets answers like, “It’s “Dave” the founder of Wendy’s Hamburgers.”
We shake our head at this lack of knowledge and wonder what some schools are teaching.
I wonder what would happen if Jay asked the average person, “How do you get to Heaven?”
Our eyes would be opened.
We mistakenly think this is something everyone understands.
We are wrong.
We think the prevalence of Christian media ministries means everyone understands Christianity.
Most people don’t watch those programs, and those who do, are confused by the wild and distorted things they see being done and said under the guise of Christianity.
Just because there are many good Christian books, doesn’t mean non-believers are going to read them.
We mistakenly think that because we build a church on the corner people will automatically enter the doors.
We must never assume that our family, friends or relatives understand the gospel message . . .
even if they have gone to church all their life.
It is always a good idea to start at the beginning in explaining the message of the cross and resurrection to anyone and everyone.
You would be surprised at how many people know nothing of God’s grace extended to us through Christ.
Paul talks about the “beautiful feet” of the person who brings good news.
Paul quotes Isaiah.
Isaiah was talking about the messengers who would come with the good news that the Jewish exiles could go home.
Paul rightly applied the idea of beautiful feet to those who share the words of hope and life with those who are lost.
Donald Barnhouse told of a man with the disease, elephantiasis.
With this disease the leg from the knee down to the foot can become as large as 12-15 inches in diameter and naturally is quite painful.
This man, from Western Africa, became a radiant Christian but was able to do little because of his disease.
What he knew he could do was tell others about Christ.
He determined that every soul in the village would hear the good news of salvation.
Though it was difficult for him to walk he went from hut to hut in that village to tell them what Christ had done in his life.
Every night he would come home to be cared for by his relatives.
After several months of enduring the discomfort and pain he had talked to everyone in the village.
Next he walked the two miles to the neighboring village.
He would walk the two miles to the village, talk to as many people as possible, and then walk the two painful miles home.
After several weeks every person in that village had heard about the death and resurrection of the Savior also.
The man thought that was all he could do.
Soon he had a burden for a town that was ten or twelve miles through the African jungle.
The missionary Doctor advised him, not to make the long journey to the village.
His heart for the lost would not let him stay home.
Early one morning he started off on the difficult journey.
He had to stop many times but he made it to the village a little after noon.
His feet were greatly swollen, bruised and bleeding.
The people of the village offered him food but before he would eat, he told them about God and how he sent his son to die for them and then was raised from the dead.
He told how Jesus had come into his heard and brought him, hope, joy, and peace.
That man went to every home in the village that day and because there was no place for him to spend the night started off near evening to return home.
He walked through the dangerous jungle in the deep darkness of night.
The man later reported that the only thing that kept him from being afraid was the wonderful joy of seeing people come to trust the Savior.
Around midnight the Doctor was awakened by a noise at his front door.
He found the man at his doorstep, almost unconscious with his leg stumps wounded and bleeding.
The doctor took him into his infirmary and cared for the feet that were in such terrible shape.
As the Doctor cleaned and cared for those feet he wept at the thought of such love and devotion to the Savior and for those who needed to hear the message of salvation.
The Doctor could not help but think about the words from the book of Romans.[i]
Oh, to have such a passion for the souls of men!
The lost people in the world need people who will care enough about them to share the word of truth.
We need to share with those around us, and we have a responsibility to promote and invest in missionary endeavors around the world.
!!! SOME WHO HEAR WILL NOT BELIEVE
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/But not all the Israelites accepted the good news.
For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
But I ask: Did they not hear?
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