Let Us Love the Lost

     We ought to love the lost in this world, because there was someone who loved you to lead you to Christ Jesus our Lord and Redeemer.  We ought to show them the joy and happiness of Christ in our own lives, for Christ gives us hope, forgiveness and love.  We ought to proclaim the Gospel of the imputed righteousness of Christ by grace through faith alone.  It is central to the Gospel to proclaim justification by faith alone.  We ought also to point out that God regenerates us without our cooperation, for we are dead in sin.   He does not have us choose but He chooses to overwhelm us with His beloved loveliness.  There is nothing wrong with sharing the Gospel to a lost world; however, we ought not to force people into the faith; that is, there is no benefit to forcing people to believe.  Let us set the Gospel clearly out: it is the life and death of Christ alone imputed to us by faith alone through the spiritual application of the Holy Ghost to us.  Help us, O God, to love the lost, because eternity is a long time to be wrong.  Romans 3 says:

¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.  ²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. ²¹But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²²Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: ²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; ²⁶To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. ²⁷Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. ²⁸Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. ²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: ³⁰Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. ³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.