What happens to the influence of a lost person who impacts the world?
The influence of a lost person continues after death; those he touched carry on, and he will reap rewards from people following in his footsteps. The final impact remains unknown until the Lord, the righteous judge, reveals it at the last time.
Les teaches that the final impact of a person's life, whether saved or lost, will not be fully known until the Lord, the righteous judge, reveals it at the last time. For the lost person, as he makes an impact on the world from his lostness, he too will reap rewards of people following in his or her footsteps. Just as the influence of early Christian mentors continued long after they were gone, so a lost person's influence carries on through others. This underscores that we are responsible only to the Lord, and until He comes, that is where our responsibility lies. When the Lord comes, He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then every man will have praise of God.