Salvation and Sanctification Reviewed

To understand God's message of salvation, you must understand the fact that every single man, woman and child is a sinful being, guilty before God and under God's condemnation. And I find it tremendously significant, God begins a message of good news with a message of condemnation. And most people today never get beyond this point because it's a message they don't want to hear. I don't want to be told that I'm a sinner. I don't want to be told that I'm no good. That I'm worthless, that I'm lost. And if we won't hear that we cannot hear God's message of salvation. That's where God begins and until you come to grips with the issue of man's lost condition, his condemned state, you cannot hope to understand anything else about God's message of salvation.