Title: Ignorance Keeps People From Becoming Christians Meta: Ignorance is the very explanation as to why all men in this world who are not Christians, are not Christians. Why do the lost feel that the things of Christ are boring? They are blind and in ignorance do not see reality for what it is. If those same lost people truly saw the paradise of God that was guaranteed to that thief on the Cross, it would change their entire perspective. Tags: ignorance,Christian,lost,depravity,sin,1 Timothy 1:13,rejection 1 00:00:00,729 --> 00:00:07,103 Notice the text again, 1 Timothy 1:13. 2 00:00:07,104 --> 00:00:16,624 "I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly." 3 00:00:17,544 --> 00:00:20,934 What had he been doing? He acted ignorantly. 4 00:00:20,935 --> 00:00:24,361 Oh, he says it in the first part of the verse. 5 00:00:24,362 --> 00:00:29,354 What had he done? He was hunting Christians. 6 00:00:29,355 --> 00:00:37,376 Ok, why does a man hunt Christians rather than become a Christian? 7 00:00:37,377 --> 00:00:40,245 Ignorance. 8 00:00:40,246 --> 00:00:43,138 That's what he is saying. 9 00:00:43,139 --> 00:00:47,397 Why would he not fall down before the Lord Jesus Christ, who is mighty to save, 10 00:00:47,398 --> 00:00:51,136 to be saved from his sins? 11 00:00:51,137 --> 00:00:54,204 Ignorance. 12 00:00:54,951 --> 00:00:57,916 Why would he not surrender to the Jewish Messiah? 13 00:00:57,917 --> 00:01:01,283 Look, he was a Jew. He was versed in the Jewish Scriptures. 14 00:01:01,284 --> 00:01:05,035 He knew about the Jewish Messiah. He knew that there was One that was coming. 15 00:01:05,036 --> 00:01:06,849 One who would be born in Bethlehem. 16 00:01:06,850 --> 00:01:09,017 One, the Ancient of Days. 17 00:01:09,018 --> 00:01:11,653 He knew, Unto us a child would be born. 18 00:01:11,654 --> 00:01:15,322 He read Isaiah 53, he knew those things. 19 00:01:15,323 --> 00:01:23,775 Why would he not embrace the Jewish Messiah when He came upon the scene? 20 00:01:23,776 --> 00:01:26,775 Ignorance. (P) 21 00:01:30,104 --> 00:01:39,072 Why would he not come to Christ that he might have life and have it more abundantly? 22 00:01:39,073 --> 00:01:47,758 Brethren, he is telling us, ignorance, ignorance, ignorance. 23 00:01:47,759 --> 00:01:52,161 It's like he is looking back at his former life and he says, 24 00:01:52,162 --> 00:01:58,041 "The appalling ignorance of it all."(P) 25 00:01:59,025 --> 00:02:02,158 Brethren, can I tell you this: 26 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:14,519 Ignorance is the very explanation as to why all men in this world who are not Christians, are not Christians. 27 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:19,020 That's the explanation. 28 00:02:19,021 --> 00:02:28,395 Brethren, these people out here, some of you in here. 29 00:02:28,396 --> 00:02:32,593 Why would some people come here, some of you young people, teenagers, 30 00:02:32,594 --> 00:02:35,970 why would you come here and you want to think about Social Media, 31 00:02:35,971 --> 00:02:37,305 and you want to think about your friends, 32 00:02:37,306 --> 00:02:39,420 and you want to think about getting home and watching a video, 33 00:02:39,421 --> 00:02:42,326 or you want to get home and watch a movie, or you want to get home and watch the game, 34 00:02:42,327 --> 00:02:43,797 you want to do this, you want to do that. 35 00:02:43,798 --> 00:02:47,082 And this is boring, this is boring. 36 00:02:47,083 --> 00:02:50,994 Why? why do you feel that way? 37 00:02:50,995 --> 00:02:54,201 Ignorance.(P) 38 00:02:55,972 --> 00:03:00,125 If I could take you right now and show you the paradise of God 39 00:03:00,126 --> 00:03:02,985 that was guaranteed to that thief on the cross, 40 00:03:02,986 --> 00:03:06,710 and I could give you a glimpse of it. 41 00:03:06,711 --> 00:03:10,110 If I could take you right now into the flames of the lake of fire 42 00:03:10,111 --> 00:03:13,798 and show you the horrors of it. 43 00:03:13,799 --> 00:03:22,369 If I could just show you the limited amount that I know about the goodness of Christ, 44 00:03:22,370 --> 00:03:26,283 and His beauty, and His grace. 45 00:03:26,284 --> 00:03:32,154 If I could show you just what I know, 46 00:03:32,155 --> 00:03:35,938 you would say, "What a fool I've been!" 47 00:03:35,939 --> 00:03:39,365 But why don't you do that? 48 00:03:39,366 --> 00:03:44,679 Ignorance. Ignorance.(P) 49 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:52,291 Brethren, you young people, see, I know. 50 00:03:52,292 --> 00:03:54,645 I was where you are. 51 00:03:54,646 --> 00:03:56,280 And I know what some of you are thinking, 52 00:03:56,281 --> 00:03:58,235 and I know what the people out there are thinking. 53 00:03:58,236 --> 00:04:06,173 They are thinking it's their wisdom, it's their discernment, it's their knowledge, 54 00:04:06,174 --> 00:04:13,568 it's their intelligence that leads them to not become a Christian. 55 00:04:13,569 --> 00:04:15,375 Isn't that what they think? 56 00:04:15,376 --> 00:04:24,210 And many of you young people, you just say, "This is stupid." 57 00:04:24,211 --> 00:04:28,666 Why would you say that? 58 00:04:28,667 --> 00:04:35,289 When we are talking about how to escape the just wrath of God.(P) 59 00:04:35,290 --> 00:04:46,501 Look, if I could come up here and tell you about a way for you to be annihilated 60 00:04:46,502 --> 00:04:52,775 so that you would not have to endure the horrors of hell; 61 00:04:52,776 --> 00:05:05,325 brethren I can tell you this, if I could take every person in San Antonio into hell for 10 seconds, 62 00:05:05,326 --> 00:05:08,024 we could all come back here. 63 00:05:08,025 --> 00:05:16,032 And next Sunday, my message was going to be about how to become annihilated 64 00:05:16,033 --> 00:05:21,414 rather than endure that, this church would be full to the hilt. 65 00:05:21,415 --> 00:05:26,443 People would be pressing to get in here. 66 00:05:26,444 --> 00:05:28,382 Just to be annihilated. 67 00:05:28,383 --> 00:05:31,858 Just to avoid, just to go into an eternal sleep 68 00:05:31,859 --> 00:05:35,215 and have it to be like as if they were never born. 69 00:05:35,216 --> 00:05:38,957 Why? Because the terrors and the horrors are that bad. 70 00:05:38,958 --> 00:05:46,267 And some preacher stands up and tells you, and you think, "I got it figured out. 71 00:05:46,268 --> 00:05:52,091 I don't need that kind of crutch. I am wiser than this." 72 00:05:52,092 --> 00:05:55,670 Smugly you think you've got it all figured out. 73 00:05:55,671 --> 00:06:01,113 Ignorance. Ignorance. That's what Paul is telling us.(P) 74 00:06:01,114 --> 00:06:10,830 People imagine that it's precisely their learning that lifts them above the primitive superstitions. 75 00:06:10,831 --> 00:06:12,746 I've heard it called that. 76 00:06:12,747 --> 00:06:16,000 That is basically what Christians are accused of by this world. 77 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:20,212 This very wise world out here with all of its intelligence and learning. 78 00:06:20,213 --> 00:06:24,142 Primitive superstitions.