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Who are the lost?
- The unsaved
- The unrepentant
- The unbelievers
- The atheists
- The God-haters
- Followers of Lucifer
- Godless Marxists
- The “woke”
- The blasphemers
- The evil globalist elitists
- All present and wannabe tyrants
- The many who enter through the wide gate that leads to destruction
This would include beloved family members and dear friends who have rejected the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
All of us who are saved and born again into the eternal family of God have family and friends who are not saved, for whom we pray with all of our hearts that they would repent and become saved.
The lost are all who have rejected the free gift of salvation offered to all sinners from every race and every culture and every ethnic group.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
To all who are lost, there is still good news. It is called the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The word “gospel” means good news.
You do not have to remain lost.
Jesus loves you and would love to save you if you will only let Him. But it is He who has also bestowed free will upon you, and He will not violate that free will.
You must choose to let Him save you. Save you from Satan and all of the lies the devil has deceived you with, and save you from yourself and whatever sins that you may have become enslaved by in the weakness of your fallen nature.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).
“Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save it” (John 3:17).
He came into the world to save me and to save you.
He took a beating and a whipping so severe that He barely survived it before those Roman soldiers nailed Him to the cross, where He would forgive them for what they had done to Him as He slowly died of suffocation.
It is difficult to even imagine the level of suffering Jesus endured that day in the city of Jerusalem, where He was brutally beaten and nailed to that cross, up on that hill called Calvary.
He endured it for all who are lost. He endured it for me, and He endured it for you.
But it doesn’t end there because, after three days in the tomb, He rose from the dead.
In regard to His life, Jesus said, “No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my father” (John 10:18).
He conquered death completely and forever and is able to bestow the gift of eternal life on all who believe in Him.
To believe in Jesus is to love Him.
How could you not love someone who would willingly and gladly lay down His life for you?
When you truly love Jesus and are so grateful for all He has done and endured for you, you will want to repent and become spiritually born again.
You will desire to be like Him, and He, in tandem with the Holy Spirit, will help you to become like Him. He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it (Philippians 1:6)
Anyone who is lost has the free will to become found by Jesus.
For those of us who have been saved by the amazing grace of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it is painfully heartbreaking to behold men and women who resist that amazing grace and the unfathomable love God has for them, should they choose to accept it.
The Apostle Paul described people who are lost in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. He said it like this, “Do you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.”
Then Paul added these words for those whom he was addressing who had already repented and turned to Jesus:
“And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
It is true that there is no other name except Jesus under all of heaven by which one can be saved (Acts 4:12).
Because of this truth, it means that all who have not called on His name since the time of this truth being revealed to them, including all who choose to ignore and/or deny Him right now to this very day, remain lost.
This letter is to anyone who qualifies by God’s own scriptural definitions as being lost (1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, Revelation 21:7-8).
Jesus stands at the door (your door) and knocks. This door is metaphorical. It is the door to your heart.
Open the door to your heart and invite Jesus in.
If you do, you will ask yourself why you waited so long. If you invite Jesus in, you will immediately recognize Him as your forever best friend. You will recognize Him as the one who would do anything to bless you, including enduring the harshest of punishment for your sins.
You might recall the words He spoke in John 15:13 when He said, “Greater love hath no one than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
John 1:1 reminds us that creation was spoken into existence through Jesus. The same Jesus that wants to be your best friend now and forever.
Jesus is my best friend and also the best friend of my wife, who is my next best friend. Jesus wants to be the best friend of everyone who is lost.
Jesus has more best friends than anyone else in all of creation, and He has room for more.
If you are lost, He has room for you.
In Romans 10:9-10, Paul reveals to the lost how to become found. How to become saved.
“If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.”
Thy Kingdom Come, and Thy Will be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Rick Segoine