Are The Heathen Lost?

The question that forms the title to this message is a very fundamental one. The way we answer it will affect our behavior as Christians and our commitment to Christ's Great Commission.

• Would God send someone to Hell who has never heard of Christ or seen a Bible?
• Are Christians narrow-minded and bigoted to believe that sincere believers of other religions cannot be saved by Christ even though they do not know Him and trust Him?

These are not hypothetical, far-fetched questions. They are matters of
life and death. We are living in a day of weak and sentimental theology.
We heard strange theories being propagated about God's “wider mercy,”
and men are trying to re-invent a more credible, “fair” God.

The most defining thing about us is our concept of God. The Bible
does not leave us in doubt about God's nature as it relates to His judgment on unrepentant sinners – even those who have never heard the Gospel. “Let God be true, and every man a liar.”

More than 200,000 souls are dying every day without Jesus
Christ, and not one of them is born with a “passport to heaven.” They must hear the gospel and believe, or they will perish forever (Prov. 29:18). The light of creation and conscience is not enough. To believe that there is one God is not enough (James 2:19). Men must personally trust in the Savior Who died, was buried, and rose again in order for their sins to be forgiven.