Why are we responsible to tell the world that God's grace reaches the vilest person?
Paul's gospel declares that God poured out His grace upon the whole world, not just America or Israel. Because sin abounds but God's grace is always greater, the responsibility falls on believers to let everyone know that His grace reaches even the vilest person.
Les explains that Paul's gospel is the whole comprehension that God has poured out His grace not just upon America, not just upon Israel, but the whole world. That becomes our responsibility: to let the world know that the grace of God reaches to the vilest person. He reminds us that where sin abounds, the grace of God is always greater. Les illustrates this with Dwight L. Moody, who preached in Chicago on the grace of God. After the audience cleared out, a poor old reprobate sat weeping on the back row. He told Moody not to tell him God's grace could help him, because he had been a recruiter for the prostitution trade of Chicago; countless beautiful young girls had ended up drug addicts, alcoholics, murdered, or suicides because of him. Moody replied, "That's the grace of God." Les says this is as good an example as he can find, other than Paul himself, that the grace of God can go far beyond the most vile sinner we can dream of. It is incomprehensible and almost unbelievable if it were not that the word so clearly declares it: we are not under the law but under grace.