God's Evangel: Being Gospel Papers by F.W. Grant

It is the first essential thing for blessing to be brought just to this point, to the utter giving up of all pretension to anything before God, — to the acceptance of His sentence of utter condemnation upon all the world, — all the world guilty before God. When we have reached that point we do not look round with self-complacency upon our neighbors, to reflect upon how much guiltier they are than we. That word "LOST," if we know what it means, swallows up all other distinctions. It refuses to know any distinction. "Undone!" "Lost!" The sinner of the city and Isaiah the prophet absolutely upon the same level as to that!