Why are the lost - lost?

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Why are the lost - lost?
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Let's talk about the lost

• Physical lost in the woods, turned down the
  wrong street, child separated from parents in a
  store
• Have you ever been lost?

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Let's talk about the lost

• Spiritual away from God, without hope
• Ephesians 212 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.
• This verse is a definition of what it means to be
  spiritually lost.

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Reaching the lost - Important

• Great Comission commands this
• Examples of early Christians teach this
• BUT We are not doing it very well
• We have failed to understand the lost
• Who is lost?
• Why are they lost?
• Two types of lost people in our world

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The Lost Lost

• What saves us?
• Baptism 1 Peter 321 Acts 2216 Acts 238
• Obey the commands of Christ
• The problem we have is
• We are not convinced that they are lost
• We are not sure they want to be saved

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John 311-12

• 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We
  know and testify what We have seen, and you do
  not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you
  earthly things and you do not believe, how will
  you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

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The Lost Lost

• TWO REASONS THE LOST ARE LOST
• 1 They don't accept the witness of Jesus v. 11

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The Lost Lost

• TWO REASONS THE LOST ARE LOST
• 1 They don't accept the witness of Jesus v.
  11
• 2 They do not believe our teaching v. 12

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The Saved Lost

• Hebrews 312 Beware, brethren, lest there be in
  any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing
  from the living God
• 1 John 21-2 1 My little children, these things I
  write to you, so that you may not sin. And if
  anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father,
  Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is
  the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours
  only but also for the whole world.

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The Saved Lost

• Numbers 1527-29 27 'And if a person sins
  unintentionally, then he shall bring a female
  goat in its first year as a sin offering. 28 So
  the priest shall make atonement for the person
  who sins unintentionally, when he sins
  unintentionally before the Lord, to make
  atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him.
  29 You shall have one law for him who sins
  unintentionally, for him who is native-born among
  the children of Israel and for the stranger who
  dwells among them.

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The Saved Lost

• Numbers 1530-31 30 'But the person who does
  anything presumptuously, whether he is
  native-born or a stranger, that one brings
  reproach on the Lord, and he shall be cut off
  from among his people. 31 Because he has despised
  the word of the Lord, and has broken His
  commandment, that person shall be completely cut
  off his guilt shall be upon him.' "
• Ignorant, unintentional sin 27-29
• Presumptous, willful sin 30-31

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The Saved Lost

• Psalm 1913 Keep back Your servant also from
  presumptuous sins Let them not have dominion
  over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall
  be innocent of great transgression.
• Hebrews 1026 For if we sin willfully after we
  have received the knowledge of the truth, there
  no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

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The Saved Lost

• 1 John 15-7 5 This is the message which we have
  heard from Him and declare to you, that God is
  light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we
  say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in
  darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7
  But if we walk in the light as He is in the
  light, we have fellowship with one another, and
  the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
  from all sin.

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The Saved Lost

• THREE REASONS THERE ARE SAVED PEOPLE WHO ARE LOST
• 1 Not walking in the light

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The Saved Lost

• THREE REASONS THERE ARE SAVED PEOPLE WHO ARE LOST
• 1 Not walking in the light
• 2 Losing faith

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The Saved Lost

• THREE REASONS THERE ARE SAVED PEOPLE WHO ARE LOST
• 1 Not walking in the light
• 2 Losing faith
• 3 Defiant rebellious

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Are you lost?

• Are you among the lost lost?
• Are you among the saved lost?
• There is a way out of this spiritual wilderness.

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Are you lost?

• There is hope. There is a way to safety.
• John 146 I am the way, the truth, and the life.
  No one comes to the Father except through Me.