Who is condemned?

How confronting are these words by Charles Spurgeon?

'Spiritual Prisoners'

At the Masters Feet

Daily Devotional

pg 306

But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe. Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. Galatians 3:22-23

Did you ever visit a condemned cell? To peep through the gate and to see a man sitting there condemned to die is enough to make one faint. Suppose it were your boy! Suppose it were your husband! Suppose it were your brother! But listen: "He that believeth not is condemned already" (John 3:18 KJV). Pardon us, dear unconverted relatives, if we say that yours is a terrible plight, to be even now sitting in the condemned cell, doomed to be taken out to execution before long unless infinite mercy shall grant a free pardon. What dreadful sights must meet the eye upon a battlefield. If I see a man bleeding by a common cut, my heart is in my mouth, and I cannot bear the sight; but what must it be to see men dismembered, disemboweled, writhing to and fro in the last agonies of death! What horror to walk among mounds of dead bodies and stumble at each step over a human corpse! Yet what is natural death compared with spiritual death? What terror to dwell in the same house with relatives who are dead while they live - dead unto God. The thought is full of anguish. If God will quicken our spiritually dead, if he will give life to those who are "free among the slain, as they that go down into the pit" (Psalms 88:5), what a consolation we shall find therein!

These words put a fire under me! These words scream at me!

Thank you Lord for my family! May I be burdened for them! Thank you Lord that you have placed friends in my life who do not know you either! May I see them the way Spurgeon suggest - condemned - may this image cause me to share with them...

YOUR WRATH HAS BEEN SATISFIED!!!