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I "The Helpl essness Of The Sinner" | By J.M. Little "No man can come to Me iChrist), except the Father which hath sent Me draw him These were the words of our Lord in John 6:44 when a group of Jews began to murmur at many things which He spoke Our subject is, "The Help lessness of the Sinner " The Lord Jesus Christ said in very clear terms that you, as a sinner cannot come to Him unless God the Father draws you. This sets forth that every sinner in his natural condition is helpless to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is salva tion, but you are helpless to come to him on your own. In fact the Lord said fh John 5:40 "And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life." As a sinner you are just as helpless to come to Christ as you are helpless to make a new world. We hear so much about "committment" and "decision" today. A man told me several weeks back that he ■ mu 5i«cii 1I1II13CU ιυ V/iiiuii that previous Sunday when the "altar call" was made. Now, that is a very great thing in the eyes of the religious world. If a — sinner walks down the aisle and gives the preacher his hand saying he is giving him self to Christ or rededicating his life to Christ, the preacher will holler "Amen" and take the poor soul on_ into the fellowship of the church as a - saved soul. Dut I declare unto you on the authority of God's Word such a soul has not gotten to Christ! I invite you to just listen along with an open mind be " cause I am cutting across almost everything you have been taught in the religious world today. Now just why is a sinner helpless? In Eph. 2:1 we find, these words: "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." Every sinner is DEAD IN tTRES PASSES and sins. That is why you are helpless to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. Being dead in sin, you φ not even know that you are .DEAD, how could you know you need Christ? You cannot as long as you are DEAD in your sins. You are spiritually dead and have no desire for Christ in your natu ral state. The Lord told the woman at Jacob's Well that they that worship God must worship Him in Spirit and Truth. Then Paul said that as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. 1 lie nui; ομιιιι icaus me believer to worship Christ .in spirit and in truth. But the~ sinnef being dead spiritually knows nothing about worship ing the Lord Jesus Christ. Another reason the sinner is helpless is because you are a captive of Satan. "And that they may recover themselves )ut of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him it his will." (II Tim. 2:26) rhis verse not only sets forth that the sinner is helpless to :ome to Christ, it also sets forth that YOU as a sinner lave no "FREE WILL." Eve ry sinner being a captive of Satan is in the will of Satan! Have you ever seen that you were a captive of Satan, taken at Satan's will? You will if the Holy Spirit ever awakens you to the fact you are a lost sinner. The word "recover" here means the same as "quickened" in Eph 2:1. It mean's to be awakened, or made alive. To what? To the fact Vou are a lost sinner, a child of the Devil and are bound in the clutches of Satan, ι According to John 8:44, every unsaved soul is a child of the IDevil Then another reason for your helplessness to come to Christ is that you hate God. "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God..." (Rom. 8:7) The Word "enmity" means a deep seated hatred You hate God so that keeps you from coming to Christ. If you hate someone you will not go to them. Again in Rom. 1:30 "...haters of God,..." So your hatred of God keeps you away from the Son of God. Have you ever seen your hatred for God? You will before you are saved if you are ever to be saved friend. Then another reason the sinner is helpless to come to Christ is his wicked heart. You have heard it taught and preached down through the years that there is some good in the worst of men. That my friend is a lie out of Hell! If there were some good in man then God would have to deal with it If there were some good in man Christ would not have come and died for sin ners Now you think on that. You preachers have preached the lie that there is some eood I in the worst of men Listen to the Word of God: J. M. Little me neari is uecemui aDOve all things, and desperately (incurably) wicked: who can know it : I the Lord search the reins, even to give every man according to the fruit of his doings." (Jer. 17:9,10) Your old wicked heart lies to you by telling you that you are al right, you are a nice fellow. Then your old heart lies to you about eternal destruction. When I was under Holy Spirit Conviction my old wicked heart _licd to me this way: "Hell is not all that bad after all , you are alright." Is your heart lying to you like that? Don't listen to it my friend. Then if you do get disturbed under the preaching of the Gospel your lying heart tells' you that you have plenty of time to get saved later on. So you are helpless as long as you are listening to your heart. As a sinner you are in a most awful fix, you are doomed for Hell as long as you remain in your natural state. iNow you may re asmng me question: Bro. Little, since you have set forth the awful ruined and totally depraved state of sinners, what is our hope? Who then can come to Christ? Alright let's go back to our Text: "No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him:" You can't come to Christ unless the Father draws you to Christ. Before we answer how you are drawn to Christ let's answer "whom" Christ speaks of as coming to Him. John 6:65. And He said. Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto Me, -EXCEPT IT WERE GIVEN UNTO HIM of my Father. You cannot come to Christ unless it was given to you by the Father. In other words, only the elect can come to Christ. If you are not one of God's elect, you will never be saved. According to Eph. 1:4, the elect were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. So we have answered the question, "Who can come to Christ?" Only those chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. Now, how do they come to Christ? First there must come the awakening by the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:1), wherein you are made alive to see that you are a LOST SINNER. Preachers are a fraid of LOST SINNERS. Af ter you are made alive by the Holy Spirit, then you must be convinced of SIN, RIGHT EOUSNESS, and JUDG MENT according to John 16:7-11, "Of sin, because they believe not on Me (Christ) ; Of righteousness, because I go to My Father, and ye see Me no more; Of judgment, because the prince (the Devil) of this world is judged." —Your SIN is your -unbelief and your nature. Psychiatrists and sociologists do not under stand why man behaves as he does. Man behaves as he does because man is a sinner! You are a sinner by nature (Ps. 51 ). You are a sinner by choice (Isa. 53:6). You are a sinner by God's decree (Rom. 3:23). When you are convinced by the Holy Spirit as to what you are by nature you wonder how you could be so wicked and still out of Hell. Of righteousness, the sinner sees under the revealing work of the Holy Spirit that all his righteousness come before God as filthy (menstrous) rags, according to Isa. 64:6. Have you ever seen how vile and unclean you were before God? You will if you are ever brought under conviction for salvation. Even the heavens are impure before Him. Everything you do before God, all your religious works you did over the years, you come to see that all that stinks in the nostrils of God. You come to see that you have nothing to recommend you to God. You cry out: "How could I be so wicked?" Now before the Holy Spirit shined the light in (II Cor. 4:3-6) you thought highly of yourself. Now you consider vourself just as a dog before God, a vomiting dog, accord ing to II Pet. 2:22. Of judgment, you come to see that you, as a child otOhe Devil, are under the same1 judgment as your father the Devil. His doom is Hell and you see that yours is too unless you get to Christ. You not only see that you are lost and under the judgment, but the whole world around you is too. You look around and ask: Lord, who is saved? The beauty of the world goes out in your soul "These messages are kejJt in print by the love offerings of our friends who love the truth preached under the power of the Holy Spirit that awakens sinners and efidies saints, mail all tax deductible contributions to The Prophet's Column Inc., 9626 Feldbank Dr. Charlotte, N.C. 28216.' SUNDAYS 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. WAGL 1560 kc. LANCASTER, S C. 29720 Hear the voice of truth broadcast with our late pastor, L. R. Shelton . [ForL e-Health & Croup ! INSURANCE CALL:!' 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