I come now to show you that under all faithful ministers many will be lost. Verse 3: ‘But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.’ Now, you will see from these words that Paul reckoned upon it that some of his hearers would be lost, and accordingly this was the case. When Paul came to Iconium the city was divided, and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles. And what is our experience? Is not this thing true of this congregation? Some have believed, some have believed not. What is the reason of it? Satan has blinded your mind, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto you. Your lusts have made a thick veil to hide the gospel from you. And what will be the end? You will be lost. Oh! dreadful word—a lost soul! Lost to your believing friends; they will look around the innumerable company in heaven; but you will not be there! Lost to Christ—Christ will not own you! Lost to God—God will say, This is not mine. O brethren, are there any of you who have sat for five years under my ministry and yet are lost! Ah! Brethren, our gospel is hid to you, and you will be a lost soul to all eternity. All the angels could not tell you the misery of that—to be a lost soul! Amen. 

A Basket of Fragments - Robert Murray McCheyne