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LOST? What does the
word mean. Definition from www.dictionary.com
–adjective
1. no longer possessed or retained: lost
friends.
2. no longer to be found: lost articles.
3.
having gone astray or missed the way; bewildered as
to place, direction, etc.: lost children.
4. not
used to good purpose, as opportunities, time, or
labor; wasted: a lost advantage.
5. being something
that someone has failed to win: a lost prize.
6.
ending in or attended with defeat: a lost battle.
7.
destroyed or ruined: lost ships.
8. preoccupied;
rapt: He seems lost in thought.
9. distracted;
distraught; desperate; hopeless: the lost look of a
man trapped and afraid.
Now, let's define the word
"lost" as used in the Bible.
The KJV New Testament
Greek Lexicon transliterated word for lost is "Apollumi".
It mean to "destroy", "put to death". Dictionary.com
defines death as "the end of life". To my surprise,
dictionary.com listed this as death, "Also called
spiritual death. loss or absence of spiritual life."
So death can mean "absence of Spiritual Life. The
absences of the Spirit of God". Death in the Bible
means "separation". When a person dies, their body
is separated from their soul and spirit. They are
separated from their family members and friends that
live on earth. Unless man has Biblical faith in the
God of the Bible, he will forever be separated from
God. Man never ceases to exist. He will live
forever, either in Heaven or Hell. I will discuss
this more thoroughly later in this dissertation. The
word "lost" is used by most Christians to describe
the spiritual condition of a person that has never
received Christ as their life. Why is it used to
describe a spiritual condition?
Let's go back in the
Bible to Genesis as it records how God created the
first man, Adam.
Genesis 1:26,27 AMP
God said, " Let
Us
*[Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind
*("Adam" in the Hebrew Lexicon) in Our image, after
Our likeness, and let them have complete authority
over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the
*[tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over
everything that creeps upon the earth. So God
created man *(Adam) in His own image, in the image
and likeness of God He created him; male
*(Adam) and
female *(Eve) He created them.
* I inserted for
clarity
Genesis 2:7 KJV
And the LORD God formed man
of the dust of the ground
*(body), and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life
*(Spirit); and man
became a living soul.*(soul)
God placed Adam in the
garden of Eden and then God created Eve to be the
wife to Adam. He told them not to eat from a tree
called the knowledge of good and evil. For if they
eat from that tree they shall surely die. They
disobeyed God and ate of the tree. Now keep in mind
that death means separation. That very day Adam and
Eve died a Spiritual death. Adam and Eve LOST the
image of God *(Spirit of God ) that day and they were
cast out from the garden of Eden. They are now
separated from God. It was many years later that
they died physically. Do you see what they lost?
Adam, head of the human race, passed on this lostness
*(the human spirit void of the Spirit of
God) to the entire human race. All mankind is born
in the image of Adam.
Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived an
hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own
likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Read 1 Corinthians 15;45-49 Do a study on the image
of God and see who it refers to.
Hebrews
1:1-3
Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, came to this earth,
died for the sin of the world
*(lostness), was buried
and three days later He was resurrected from the
dead. He did this in order to restore what Adam
lost. When a person receives Christ through
repentance and faith, only then will the image of
God be restored to him and he will bear that image
to lost humanity. As Ian Thomas said, "The Christian
is the visible, physical, audible expression of the
Invisible God". Can others see Jesus in you?
Pastor Danny
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1. YOU ARE LOST
hopelessly, helplessly, without God.
Ephesians 2:1
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins; 2) Wherein in time past ye
walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience: 3) Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lusts of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath,
even as others.
2. YOU ARE GREATLY LOVED by
God and His Son Jesus.
John 3:16 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.
3. YOU CAN HAVE A NEW
LIFE in Christ.
REPENT
Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay:
but, except ye repent , ye shall all likewise perish
Mark 1;15 ...repent ye , and believe the gospel (the
death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ)
RECEIVE
John 1:12 But as many as received him
(Jesus), to them gave he power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on his name Romans
3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians
5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away ; behold , all
things are become new.
4. YOU CAN LIVE
forever with Christ.
John 3:16 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.
Pastor Danny
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