Do you have a "testimony" of being, or having been, "LOST"?

What CONVICTED you?

Luke 19:10

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."

Has The Holy Spirit shown you, "you are in need of a Savior"?,
because:

A. Man is Depraved in Mind. Gen. 6:5.

B. In Heart. Jer. 17:9.

C. In Affections so that He is Averse to God. John 3: 19; Rom. 8:7.

D. In Conscience. Titus 1:15; Heb. 10:22.

E. In Speech. Psa. 58:3; Jer. 8:6; Rom. 3:13.

F. Depraved from Head to Foot. Isa. 1:5,6.

G. Depraved when Born. Psa. 51:5; Psa. 58:3.

The Effect:

A. No Remnant of Good Remains in Man by Nature. Rom. 7: I&

B. Therefore Man by Nature Cannot Subject Himself to the Law of God
or Please God. Rom. 8:7,8.

C. Man is by Nature Spiritually Dead. Rom. 5:12; Col. 2:16; 1 John 3:14.

D. Therefore He Cannot Comprehend Spiritual Things. 1 Cor. 2:14.

E. Hence He Cannot Until Quickened by the Spirit of God,
Turn From Sin to God in Godly Penitence and Faith.
Jer. 13:23; John 6:44,65; 12:39,40.

from http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF Books II/Simmons - A Systematic Study of Bible Doctrine.pdf

 

Lost is too kind a word for the unredeemed. The unredeemed are not lost; they are dead.

The redeemed can get lost as they stray from their Shepherd. Like sheep we can stray and follow paths of destruction that result in pride or despair. In this case the one who has been redeemed will see his Shepherd come and draw him back to the fold. Those who imagine themselves redeemed will never be drawn back by the Shepherd because they were always of a different fold and never had heard the Great Shepherd's voice. They had always listened to a voice of another while they walked amongst the sheep of the King.