Many of us have seen a pickup truck with a winch attached near the bumper. Most of the time we’d glance and shrug it off not caring at all. However, if you found yourself stranded at the bottom of a deep pit out in the wilderness, your perspective would change. From there, if you saw the driver arrive and initiate a rescue effort, your attitude about that driver and his truck would change drastically.
Sinful mankind will not be grateful for God’s help unless we recognize that we are in a precarious predicament. The law of sin and death is so powerful that some may subconsciously repress the reality of its force. Many people do not care that God has gone to extraordinary lengths to initiate a rescue effort on behalf of our race.
Appendix “A” details God’s full demonstration of the sinfulness of mankind. The sinful condition of the race has led to our fallen world full of illness, despair, and death. The sinfulness of mankind is consistent throughout each member of the race even inflicting its curse of death on the seemingly innocent members of the race. Whether we are young or old, rich or poor, moral or immoral, there is no difference: sin and death universally and comprehensively speak of God’s judgment of mankind. We are effectively at the bottom of a pit.
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