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Bobby Stafford Those Who Have Never Heard The Gospel      
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Those Who Have Never Heard 

Introduction:

 Who will be lost forever in a devil’s hell?  Many would say only people like Hitler or serial killers or others like them.  One conversation I had with a person of a different religious faith said that there would be less than ten!  But what does the Bible teach?

 Body: 

I.   Classes of People Who Will Be Lost

  • Atheists   Psalms 14:1   The conclusion that God does not exist is foolish because ample evidence exists that there is a God.    Romans 1:18-20   The atheist has no faith in God.   Hebrews 11:6
  • Good moral people who have not obeyed the gospel.  They have rejected the Lord’s church.   Ephesians 5:23, 25    Acts 20:28
  • Unfaithful Christians   II Peter 2:20-22    I Peter 4:17-18

II.   Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel

  • Will those people who have never heard the gospel be lost?        This is an emotionally-charged question.  It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t examine it.
  • People are not lost because they don’t believe that Jesus is the Son of God.  People are not lost because they don’t repent and are not baptized.  People are not lost because they do not obey the gospel.  People are lost because they sinSin is what separates us from God.   Isaiah 59:1-2    Obeying the gospel is how that sin is removed.   Acts 22:16   How many have sinned?   “All”  Romans 3:23
  • Illustration (by Gene Burgett)   A man goes on a fishing trip, falls out of the boat and drowns.  He had several life preservers on the boat; but no one was there to throw him one.  Why did the man drown?  Was it because no one threw him a life jacket? No!  He drowned because he fell into the water.  That is what caused his death.  People are lost because of their sins; not because no one preached the gospel to them.
  • Further evidence from the Scripture:
    1. God’s purity and holiness   Habakkuk 1:13      It is not possible for Jehovah to allow sin into heaven, His dwelling place.
    2. One must be born again.   John 3:5  “except” – If and only if !
    3. Jesus is the only way.   John 14:6
    4. The Great Commission   If people are saved because they did not hear the gospel, why did Jesus tell us to go into all the world and preach the gospel?   Mark 16:15

 Conclusion: 

The Bible clearly informs us about who will be eternally lost.  It is our duty to try and make that number as small as possible!

 Bobby Stafford

September 23, 2012

 

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