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		<title>By: R. Nolen</title>
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		<description>Reason's Why People don't come to Jesus for Salvation!!! 
 
 
Spiritual ingnorance
 
18 Their [a]moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is [b]deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].
 
Ephesians 4:18 AMP
 
 
 
Spiritual Darkness
 
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
 
Romans 1:21 KJV
 
 
No Feelings
 
19 In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand].
 
Ephesians 4:19 AMP
 
 
No Mixture with Faith
 
2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
 
Hebrews 4:2 KJV
 
 
No Conviction of Sin
 
8 And when He comes, He will convict and convince the world and bring demonstration to it about sin and about righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God) and about judgment:
 
John 16:8 AMP
 
 
Bondage of Demons
 
23 Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an evil[a] spirit cried out, 24"What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!"
 
Mark 1:23-24 NIV
 
 
Hurt from the Church
 
19 a false witness who pours out lies 
and a person who stirs up dissension in the community.
 
Proverbs 6:19 NIV
 
 
Unequally Yoked
 
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?
 
 
2 Corinthians 6:14



Romans 1:18-32 (Amplified Bible)

18For God's [holy] wrath and indignation are revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who in their wickedness repress and hinder the truth and make it inoperative. 
    19For that which is known about God is evident to them and made plain in their inner consciousness, because God [Himself] has shown it to them. 

    20For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any defense or justification],(A) 

    21Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead they became futile and [a]godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened. 

    22Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made simpletons of themselves]. 

    23And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and birds and beasts and reptiles. 

    24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin], 

    25Because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen (so be it).(B) 

    26For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one, 

    27And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another--men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own [b]bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution. 

    28And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or approve of Him or consider Him worth the knowing, God gave them over to a base and condemned mind to do things not proper or decent but loathsome, 

    29Until they were filled (permeated and saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, iniquity, grasping and covetous greed, and malice. [They were] full of envy and jealousy, murder, strife, deceit and treachery, ill will and cruel ways. [They were] secret backbiters and gossipers, 

    30Slanderers, hateful to and hating God, full of insolence, arrogance, [and] boasting; inventors of new forms of evil, disobedient and undutiful to parents. 

    31[They were] without understanding, conscienceless and faithless, heartless and loveless [and] merciless. 

    32Though they are fully aware of God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them themselves but approve and applaud others who practice them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reason&#8217;s Why People don&#8217;t come to Jesus for Salvation!!! </p>
<p>Spiritual ingnorance</p>
<p>18 Their [a]moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is [b]deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].</p>
<p>Ephesians 4:18 AMP</p>
<p>Spiritual Darkness</p>
<p>21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</p>
<p>Romans 1:21 KJV</p>
<p>No Feelings</p>
<p>19 In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand].</p>
<p>Ephesians 4:19 AMP</p>
<p>No Mixture with Faith</p>
<p>2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.</p>
<p>Hebrews 4:2 KJV</p>
<p>No Conviction of Sin</p>
<p>8 And when He comes, He will convict and convince the world and bring demonstration to it about sin and about righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God) and about judgment:</p>
<p>John 16:8 AMP</p>
<p>Bondage of Demons</p>
<p>23 Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an evil[a] spirit cried out, 24&#8243;What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!&#8221;</p>
<p>Mark 1:23-24 NIV</p>
<p>Hurt from the Church</p>
<p>19 a false witness who pours out lies<br />
and a person who stirs up dissension in the community.</p>
<p>Proverbs 6:19 NIV</p>
<p>Unequally Yoked</p>
<p>14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?</p>
<p>2 Corinthians 6:14</p>
<p>Romans 1:18-32 (Amplified Bible)</p>
<p>18For God&#8217;s [holy] wrath and indignation are revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who in their wickedness repress and hinder the truth and make it inoperative.<br />
    19For that which is known about God is evident to them and made plain in their inner consciousness, because God [Himself] has shown it to them. </p>
<p>    20For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any defense or justification],(A) </p>
<p>    21Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead they became futile and [a]godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened. </p>
<p>    22Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made simpletons of themselves]. </p>
<p>    23And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and birds and beasts and reptiles. </p>
<p>    24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin], </p>
<p>    25Because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen (so be it).(B) </p>
<p>    26For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one, </p>
<p>    27And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another&#8211;men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own [b]bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution. </p>
<p>    28And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or approve of Him or consider Him worth the knowing, God gave them over to a base and condemned mind to do things not proper or decent but loathsome, </p>
<p>    29Until they were filled (permeated and saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, iniquity, grasping and covetous greed, and malice. [They were] full of envy and jealousy, murder, strife, deceit and treachery, ill will and cruel ways. [They were] secret backbiters and gossipers, </p>
<p>    30Slanderers, hateful to and hating God, full of insolence, arrogance, [and] boasting; inventors of new forms of evil, disobedient and undutiful to parents. </p>
<p>    31[They were] without understanding, conscienceless and faithless, heartless and loveless [and] merciless. </p>
<p>    32Though they are fully aware of God&#8217;s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them themselves but approve and applaud others who practice them.</p>
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