How God Sees the Unbeliever

“And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).”  Ephesians 2:1-5

Talk with almost any unsaved person and you get the same response when conversation turns to “religion.” “Oh, I believe we are all going to end up in the same place. We may believe different things, but God will smile at each of us and He will accept all of us.”

Does that sound familiar? Unfortunately, people hold to such a hope, even though there is no basis for that. Plainly it is a lie. But many will got into a Christless eternity because they believe it.

It is one thing to give our opinion on a spiritual matter; it is quite another when God reveals His viewpoint. We are not alive until we are “born again of the Spirit” by faith in the atoning death of Christ. Unsaved friends and neighbors may reason that they understand spiritual truth and “have their own religion,” but the truth is they are still dead, unable to understand the things of God. That realization should jolt us into action - to bring them to life in the Son.

“But God...made us alive together with Christ...”
Ephesians 2:4-5