This sermon reflects on the speaker's past life as a worldly man without Christ, highlighting the loneliness, agony, and hopelessness that consumed his soul. It emphasizes the desperate search for love, purpose, and significance through worldly pursuits like drugs and external validations, illustrating the universal human longing for love and value. The message urges listeners to remember their own state of heart before encountering Christ and the ongoing struggles faced by every unsaved individual in their pursuit of fulfillment and meaning.

I Remember what it was to be a worldly man without Christ. I Remember the loneliness that ate at my soul. I remember the agony. I remember the absolute hopelessness That I had I felt trapped Not even understanding what trapped was but I felt trapped and didn't know how to get out But didn't know there was anything to get out to I had no concept of it Didn't know that there was any remedy for my situation. I was miserable inside I was feeling hopeless inside And so what I do I gave myself over more and more to drugs to try and drowned it out And so what I was doing as a young man was clawing was fighting was striving was warring to own Was warring to have purpose and significance to have value in my life I wanted to be loved but couldn't find it in my home because of my sinful home It did not exist in there in a real way And so you go in other ways looking for you go in other pursuits trying to find some value some acceptance of individuals The warring the clawing the fighting the striving how many of you remember the state of your heart apart from Christ and the pain? And the sorrow of what it is The tragedy is we begin to forget We forget what we were and when we forget what we were we forget what they are right now Every unsaved person on this planet I don't care where they are whether they're rich or poor whether they're seemingly in prosperity and popularity or whether in total obscurity and Every single person in one way or the other is warring clawing fighting striving to have an obtain because every single person is aching To be loved aching for purpose aching for something of value Paul was a perfect example of that. It's what he was doing, but yet in the midst of his religious political pursuit He felt absolutely destitute absolutely barren absolutely empty Thinking he was doing God's service by persecuting the church causing him a greater agony and turmoil and pain inside his own heart his own life Warring to all the warring to all