The fundamental problem with humanity is that people are lost. In their lost-ness they have become decapitated from Christ, the head of the church, the head of man; coincidentally, their disconnection from Christ has made them hostile to the gospel, the only TRUE way of gaining insight, wisdom, and direction, and FINALLY their hostility to the gospel is not only because it preaches the truth, but because it is entirely EXCLUSIVE.
The problem in case you didn't catch it is three fold: Problem one: Man is lost. Problem two: Man is cut off from the head, Christ. Problem three: Man is hostile to the gospel of Jesus Christ because it is exclusive.
There are three points to this statement: Man rejects God, Man is separated from His glory, Man becomes a slave to sin, Man is condemned.
Man rejects God by his promiscuity in desiring the sins of the world. When man rejects God, he is separated from the Glory of God and therefore cast into darkness due to choice. When man is in the dark, he desires to find the light, but goes about the wrong ways making casting himself further into darkness and making himself a slave to sin. In mans attempt to be free from darkness he is ironically made a slave of it. Due to mans choice to reject God, he is condemned. The consequence of mans rejection of God is hell.
*Main Points*
Man rejects God.
Man separates himself from the glory of God.
When he does that, he lives in a shroud of darkness.
Man has made himself a slave in an attempt to be free.
Man is condemned.
Hell is the choice of man who rejects God.
Hell is an unending, physical, real separation from God.
Conclusion
* There is a way out of this darkness.
* Man is not just unethical, but lost and dead.
I hope this is coming together because all the points I'm making are key when I show the solution.
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