The Word is hope

In this world that is dying, where is hope? Isn't it heartbreaking how on the surface our culture portrays happiness and satisfaction in life, but underneath, our culture is as unhappy, lost, and empty as ever? It is so easy to tell someone that they need Jesus when there life is going good. But what do you say to someone who is truly lost and at rock bottom? It has been God's will to place me in a place where I am confronted with the dying and lost every day. For the last three and a half years, I have been continually confronted with and broken by the reality that I have no power to save men. I can give them nothing. Apart from Christ I am in the same boat as they are. We act like we are not in need because we do so much under our own power, it it this that blinds us to our true needs. What do you say to or give to somone who has needs and hurts that no man can satisfy? Many would say that you should tell them of God's love. We tell them that God loves them ad promises to provide for their material needs. But how does that free them? Is the love of God boiled down to the fact that He will give you stuff? The apostle Paul said, "I preach Christ and Him crucified". The love of God is that though He is just in condemming us to death for our sins, He reigned down His Holy hatred for our sins onto His only begotten son. So what hope do we give to wicked dying people that are apart from God? The most freeing thing that you can give them is the message of the Gospel. Without God enabling us, we would never know Him or seek Him, without Christ we stand justly condemned for our many sins and deserve death. But because of the propitiation of Christ's death, righteousness is given to those who's faith is in Him. That faith is preceded and followed by repentance and turning from sin.