The really great thing about the Christian faith is that it not only seeks to convict sinners of their need of Christ, but it also promises the power to overcome whatever it is that is holding them as saves. Are you enslaved by drink, drugs, sex, pornography, mental lust, jealousy, vindictiveness, whatever it is. The Gospel is "the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes," Rom.1:16. The power of the Gospel can break the powerful hold of anything on your life. Do you want to be free, really free? Then, believe the Gospel of Christ.
The really strange thing is that those who are not Christians actually believe that they are free! they imagine that they are free thinkers! But what they do not realise is that their thinking is largely determined by what other people think and say - by prejudice, vindictiveness, jealousy, by the advertisers, etc. But what they are not is FREE. They are as enslaved as anyone else, but they don't see it. How sad! How pathetic that such clever and smart people cannot see the truth about themselves. they are in bondage, but they don't see it.
That explains why they do not believe the Gospel; they reject the only message that can really free them. They see no beauty or attractiveness in the message or in Christ (Isa.53). They reject the only message that can set the free forever.
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