To Tell Man He Is Lost

If God had not given man the Bible, man would not know about heaven, hell or sin. Without the Bible he would not know that he is lost and in need of a Savior.

“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?” (Luke 9:25)

Every effort to save man has been and will continue to be futile until he is made to recognize he is lost and needs salvation. As the person who has a physical illness must know of that illness and that he is in need of medical attention, the sinner must know of his spiritual sickness and see his need for salvation. Until one recognizes that he needs to be saved from his lost condition, he will never make the changes that must be made in his life to effect his salvation.

Sin dooms man to be lost. Sin, according to the Bible, is lawlessness or transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4); all unrighteousness (1 John 5:17); what is not of faith (Romans 14:23); and not doing what God has shown to be good (James 4:17; Micah 6:8).

Though God created man in His image as a pure, upright being (Genesis 1:27; Ecclesiastes 7:29), when man disobeyed God and sinned, he was separated from God (Genesis 3:23-24) because God could not have any part of sin.

As sin separated the first man from God, sin separates man from God today (Isaiah 59:1-2; Ephesians 2:12). Man, because of his sins, is lost and doomed to eternal death— separation from God in the place of eternal punishment (Romans 6:23; Matthew 25:41- 46). How would man have known this if God had not given him the Bible?