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Question: Does God hear and answer the prayer of an unsaved person?

1. Prayer is a spiritual blessing.  "What a privilege to carry,
every thing to God in prayer."
     
2. But all spiritual blessings are in Christ (Eph.1:3).

3. To have access to God in prayer, one must be in Christ, where
all spiritual blessings are. When one is in Christ, he is saved.

4. Matt. 6:9f. The only one who can call upon God as Father is one
who is His child, one who is in the family of God. Cf. 1 Tim. 2:1f.

5. There is one sense in which it can be said that God hears the
prayer of an unsaved person. Cornelius (Acts 10) was a seeker of
truth.  He prayed to God. God heard his prayer in that God caused
events to transpire that Cornelius could hear the truth, and be
saved. Until he obeyed the Gospel, even though he prayed, he was
lost (Acts 11:14). The application of that is that God can use
persons and events to give one who is seeking truth the opportunity
to know and obey truth. In fact, we pray that God will use efforts
such as this program, for that very purpose. Perhaps this broadcast
will be the means that God will use to give you the chance to
understand His word, and obey Him. 

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