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Most young people feel lonely today. Many of you have parents who are so busy that they have no time for you. Community life is gone. The family unit is gone. Fifty million of your generation were murdered by “convenience” abortion. It just wasn’t “convenient” to have them – so they killed them before they were born. The few of you who lived were left alone – by parents who were too busy to provide a loving home for you. No wonder sociologists and psychologists say that loneliness is such a great problem for young people today. That loneliness was expressed by Green Day, in their song, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Don’t know where it goes

But it’s home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street

On the Blvd. of Broken Dreams

Where the city sleeps

And I’m the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone. I walk alone. I walk alone.

   (Green Day, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” 2004).

That is a song which has caught the attention of young people all across America – and throughout the world. I don’t recommend it – but there it is – a song that describes your generation, “I walk alone…I walk this empty street, On the Blvd. of Broken Dreams.”

Have you ever felt that way? Have you ever felt unwanted and lonely? No wonder! Fifty million of you in America were murdered by “convenience” abortion before you were even born. The few of you who lived were left alone – in front of a TV, wandering the streets at night, latch-key kids – alone on the “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”

And the Bible describes that in the sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel:

“None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born” (Ezekiel 16:5).

Great Spurgeon, prince of preachers, gave a sermon on that verse. It’s called, “Ezekiel’s Deserted Infant” (Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, September 7, 1862). Spurgeon said,

The verse presents to us an infant exposed to die…Its heartless parents have laid it out in the open field, having no regard whatever for it; and there it lies before our eyes, covered with blood, exposed to wild beasts, famishing, ready to [die]. Among many heathen nations there existed the barbarous custom of leaving…children to [die] in the woods or fields (ibid.).

Next Sunday morning I will preach on this subject again. It will be a special message to young people. I want you to come back next Sunday morning to hear that sermon. Bring a friend next Sunday morning. Let’s pack this church with young people! Bring every college-age and high-school-age kid you know. Let’s tell them that there’s an answer to the “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” Let’s tell them there’s an answer to their loneliness! Let’s tell them our theme – “Why be lonely? Come home – to church! Why be lost? Come home – to Jesus Christ, the Son of God!” But this morning, I’m going to draw three simple points from our text.

I. First, you feel lost and lonely.

I don’t need to qualify that. I know by talking with countless young people, for many years, that you feel lonely. And why do you feel lonely? The answer is given in our text. Think of it again.

“None eye pitied thee…to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field…” (Ezekiel 16:5).

Isn’t that the way you feel much of the time? You go to school. There’s a big crowd of young people all around you – but you feel alone – alone in the crowd. You go to the mall. There’s a big crowd of people all around you – but you still feel alone. You come home – but no one seems to have time to listen to you. You walk alone. Don’t you sometimes feel like that?

“None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field…” (Ezekiel 16:5).

Isn’t that the way you feel at night when you walk alone – down the “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”? That’s the way David felt when he said,

“No man cared for my soul” (Psalm 142:4).

That’s the way Jesus felt the night He was arrested, and

“all the disciples forsook him, and fled” (Matthew 26:56).

That’s the way Paul felt when he said,

“All men forsook me” (II Timothy 4:16).

And our text says,

“None eye pitied thee…to have compassion upon thee…” (Ezekiel 16:5).

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known.

Don’t know where it goes

But it’s home to me and I walk alone.

II. But, secondly, God does not want you to be lost and lonely.

Look at Ezekiel 16:6. Here is what God said to Israel, and what He says to you today. Let us stand and read verse six aloud.

“And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live”
      (Ezekiel 16:6).

You may be seated. Dr. John F. Walvoord gave this comment on the verse:

As God noticed the struggling infant wallowing helplessly (kicking about in her blood), He came to her aid. The life of the infant was hanging in the balance till God ordained her survival: I said [Unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live]; (John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck, The Bible Knowledge Commentary, Old Testament, Victor Books, 1985, p. 1255).

This verse instantly reminds us of a parable Christ gave. He told of a man who was robbed by thieves, wounded and left half dead, all alone on the road to Jericho. Everyone that came by this lonely, dying man looked at him, and then walked away. A priest came near him, but

“he passed by on the other side” (Luke 10:31).

Another person came down the road

“and looked on him, and passed by on the other side”
      (Luke 10:32).

Finally, after a long time,

“A certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him” (Luke 10:33)

and saved him. God did not want that wounded man to be left all alone, to die by the side of the road. And God does not want you to die in your sins and spent eternity alone in Hell. God does not want you to be lonely and lost.

“The Lord is…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (II Peter 3:9).

God does not want you to be lonely and lost. That's why Christ came - to save lost sinners! 

III. Third, God sent His Son to bring you out of sin and loneliness.

God said,

“When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live…” (Ezekiel 16:6).

Dr. W. A. Criswell said,

Israel as the child, cast out as worthless and polluted, certainly would have perished if God had not passed by and reached out to her in grace and mercy (The Criswell Study Bible, note on Ezekiel 16:6).

And that is exactly what God did to save you! The most well-known verse in the Bible makes that very clear:

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

God sent Jesus to die on the Cross – to pay the penalty for your sin and save you from judgment. You were “polluted” in sin,

“alienated from the life of God” (Ephesians 4:18).

But God sent Jesus to save you. Why? Because He loves you. If you forget everything else I said this morning, remember this – God loves you! He said, “I love you so much that I have sent my Son to die on the Cross to save you from sin and Hell.” God loves you! Christ loves you! And we, here in this local church, love you as well!

We went out to the colleges and malls and streets, and we invited you to come to church this morning. Why did we ask you to come? Because Christ told us to do that. He said,

“Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled” (Luke 14:23).

And that’s our message to you this morning: “Why be lonely? Come home – to church! Why be lost? Come home – to Jesus Christ, the Son of God!”

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me,
See, on the portals He’s waiting and watching, Watching for you and for me;
Come home, come home, Ye who are weary, come home;
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, Calling, O sinner, Come home!
   (“Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling” by Will L. Thompson, 1847-1909).

It's a lot of good clean fun to come and be with us in church.  Why not come back tonight at six o'clock?  Why not come back again next Sunday?  "Why be lonely?  Come home - to church!  Why be lost?  Come home - to Jesus, who loves you with all his heart!" 

(END OF SERMON)
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Scripture Read Before the Sermon by Dr. Kreighton L. Chan: Luke 10:30-34.
Solo Sung Before the Sermon by Mr. Benjamin Kincaid Griffith:
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (by Green Day, 2004)/
“Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling” (by Will L. Thompson, 1847-1909).