What is the Lord doing for people who have never heard this message?
The Lord is opening the eyes of people who have never heard the message, revealing that salvation is not about what we do but what we believe by faith. He does all the rest when they believe in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection, apart from repentance, baptism, or works.
Les explains that these are people who have had no exposure to the message, yet the Lord is opening their eyes to understand that it isn't what we do, it's what we believe by faith. All the basic salvation verses from Paul's epistles say the same thing: by grace you are saved through faith, not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. They make no mention of repentance, baptism, or any kind of works. When we believe that Christ died and rose from the dead, we shall be saved, and God does all the rest. The power of the Gospel is evident as people have been writing and calling.