Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Tarl Stanley for Wednesday, May 31.

God loves everyone, but it doesn't mean that everyone goes to heaven.

If that sounds like a contradiction, listen to today's podcast to learn how God sees the unbeliever.

Now today I want to talk about some of your friends, some of your neighbors,

some of the people you work with, some of the people you socialize with.

I want to talk about some of the members of your family, in fact I may be even talking about some of you.

You may ask the question, well how can you talk about my friends when you've never seen them and you don't know them?

Well I can talk about them because God knows them and God has already publicly described them.

In God's Word he has described all of us and today I want to describe a certain segment of our society,

folks that you and I know, people sometimes people we live with, people we work with, people we socialize with,

and oftentimes we see them a certain way.

But the important thing is how does God see them?

What is God's viewpoint?

Let's see what God's viewpoint is and if you'll turn to visions chapter 2

and I want you to notice what the Lord says about a person who is yet to receive Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.

Even in this passage what he does, he compares the unbeliever with the believer, all that is what he's really saying is he writes to the Ephesian Christians,

is what you used to be like so that every person who is unsaved, this is God's viewpoint.

The first thing he says about the person who is unsaved, your friends and neighbors and our family is this.

Verse chapter 2 verse 1, and you were dead in your trespasses and sins, that is all of us who are saved, he says,

that's all of us who are dead. That means all of those who are unsaved today, God says they're dead and they used to know, wait a minute.

I live with this fellow, he's not dead. He may not be physically dead but spiritually he's dead, look down in verse 5.

Even when we were dead and our transgressions, he says dead in trespasses, dead in sins, that is having fallen short of God's plan,

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