I know Baptist people up one side and down the other. But Baptist people have gotten to the place where they hesitate about becoming concerned and thoroughly aroused to the point of tears over the lost that they have all but dried up spiritually. It doesn t matter whether or not you believe it it s still true. That s all there is to it, just be born. Men don t like to believe there is sin in everyone that is born into the world.
Men don t like to believe that.
He was talking to the Ephesians, although they were saved at the time he wrote the Epistle to them, and he is telling them their condition as Gentiles prior to their conversion. He said they were aliens and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. It is an awful thing being lost. I tell you, beloved, this idea of being lost is a fact, and the awfulness of it cannot be denied. One night this old man, tottering on his staff, came down the aisle, led by his wife.