Sinners, Ignorance of – Charles Spurgeon

THE man who puts the fire-escape against the window of a burning house, may readily enough rescue those who are aware of their danger, and who rush to the front and help him, or at least are submissive to him in his work of delivering them; but if a man were insane, if he played with the flames, if he were idiotic and thought that some grand illumination were going on, and knew nothing of the danger, but was only “glamored by the glare,” then would it be hard work for the rescuer. Even thus it is with sinners. They know not, though they profess to know, that sin is Hell, that to be an alien from God is to be condemned already, to live in sin is to be dead while you live.