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All men need to be saved because all men are WICKED

1. Jer 17:9-10

Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

From the above Scripture, we see that:

  • The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, which can be translated to incurably sick. We are so wicked that God says we are like a person who has a deadly, incurable disease - one far worse than any of the known diseases. It is the number one killer - SIN.

2. Mk 7:21-22

Mk 7:21-22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22- Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 - All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

From the Scriptures, we see that:

  • These were spoken by the Lord Jesus, the Son of God.
  • Jesus agreed with Jeremiah in Jer. 17:9-10 we read.
  • According to the Lord Jesus, is man's heart basically evil or basically good? Basically evil
  • What are 6 things that go out(proceed) from within us, proving that our hearts are wicked and diseased (incurably sick) Mk 7:21-22 [1]
    • Thefts
    • Adulteries
    • Fornications
    • Murders
    • Thefts
    • Coveteousness
    • Wickedness
  • How did Jesus describe these things? as evil things.
  • After studying Mk 7:21-22 [1:1], we must conclude that man's biggest problem is:
    • hunger?
    • poor housing?
    • wars?
    • corrupt government
    • pollution in the air and water?
    • an evil and sin-polluted heart?

3. Mt 7:9-11.

Mt. 7:9-11 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 - Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11 - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

According to these verses,

  • Did the Lord Jesus say that men are good or evil? evil
  • Is it possible for an evil person to do good things? (read verse 11 again) yes
    • So when we see people doing what seem to be kind and good deeds, does this mean that these people are not evil? No

All men need to be saved because all men are LOST

1. Lk 19:10

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

What one word did the Lord Jesus use to describe thos people for whom He came to seek and save? Lost

2. Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

According to Isaiah 53:6 [2]:

  • Isaiah said that we are like lost sheep.

  • How many men, women, boys and girls are really lost (read it again) All

  • Instead of following God's way, we have all turned to our own way.

  • In Judges 21:25 [3] we learn that every man did that which was right in his own eye.

  • In Matthew 10:6 [4], the Lord described the Jewish people as the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  • In Matthew 9:36 [5] the Lord was moved with compassion when He saw the crowds of people because they were scattered abroad, as sheep having no Shepherd

  • In 1 Pet. 2:25 [6], what does Peter say we were like before we were saved? sheep going astray

  • To whom did we return when we were saved? the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls

  • In John 10:11 [7], and Psalm 23:1 [8], who is the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls? Jesus

All men need to be saved because all men are DEAD

1. Genesis 2:17

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

  • What did God say would happen to Adam if he should eat the forbidden fruit? He would surely die
  • When did God say this would happen? in the very day
  • Did Adam die physically on the very same day he ate the fruit? (Genesis 5:3-5) [9] No.
  • In Genesis 2:17 was God speaking primarily of physical death? Genesis 2:25 [10], Genesis 3:6-7 No
  • Did a change take place with respect to Adam and Even after they sinned? Yes
  • According to Genesis 3:19 was physical death part of the curse that was placed upon man because of Adam's sin? [11]
  • Did Adam die physically on the day that he sinned or hundreds of years later? (Genesis 5:3-5) [9:1] Hundreds of years later

2. Ephesians 2:1

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins

  • Before we were saved, we were dead in trespasses and sins
    • See also Ephesians 2:5 [12], Colosians 2:13 [13]

3. John 5:24

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

  • The moment a person is saved, he passes from (out of) death unto (into) life

    • See also 1 John 3:14 [14]

  • Therefore, before a person is saved, he is in a state of death according to John 6:47 [15]

    • What does a person have the moment he believes on the Lord Jesus Christ? everlasting Life.
    • Therefore, the unsaved man is spiritually dead because he does not have eternal life.

  • In Ephesians 4:17-18 [16] we learn that the unsaved man is alienated from (separated from) the life of God.

    • Therefore, the dead person (Ephesians 2:1) [^Ephesians2:1] is the person who does not have God's life.

  • The moment a person is saved, he is (Ephesians 2:1) [^Ephesians2:1] quickened; made alive.

  • According to 1 John 5:11 [17], where is eternal life to be found? In the Lord Jesus Christ.

    • See 1 John 5:12 [18] If a person has the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour and Lord, what does he also have? life.
      • The person who does not have the Son of God (has never received Him, See John 1:12) [19], does not have life (1 John 5:12).
      • If a person does not have life, he is dead!
      • Therefore, we learn in (1 John 5:12) [18:1] that a person who does not have the Son of God is Dead.

  • In John 17:3 [20], what does Jesus say eternal life really is? knowing God, and Jesus Christ whom He sent

  • Therefore the person who does not know the Father and the Son (in a personal and real way) does not have eternal life.

  • We conclude, therefore, that the person who does not know God is Dead. Compare 1 Thess.4:5 [21]

4. John 3:14-16, John 5:24, John 6:47

John 3: 14-16 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

From these verses:

  • What must dead mean and womoen do in order to have life? believe on Jesus Christ

As the Lord would say: Have you understood these? I would say: Are you still here? Seeing you on the next one. Peace!!!

Cross-References

  1. Mk 7:21-22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22- Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 - All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all ↩︎

  3. Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. ↩︎

  4. Matthew 10:6 But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ↩︎

  5. Matthew 9:36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. ↩︎

  6. 1 Pet 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. ↩︎

  7. John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. ↩︎

  8. Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my Shepherd; i shall not want. ↩︎

  9. Genesis 5:3-5 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 - And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 - And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. ↩︎ ↩︎

  10. Genesis 3:6-7 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. ↩︎

  11. Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. ↩︎

  12. Ephesians 2:5 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins ↩︎

  13. Colossians 2: 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; ↩︎

  14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. ↩︎

  15. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. ↩︎

  16. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,18 - Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: ↩︎

  17. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ↩︎

  18. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. ↩︎ ↩︎

  19. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: ↩︎

  20. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ↩︎

  21. Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: ↩︎