This is certainly a mind-boggling word. It has to do with a bodily condition whereby a person has no sense of feeling or touch, and therefore is immune to pain. When I read of this I immediately related the physical to the spiritual. Certainly depraved man is insensible to sin. He can be cut, bruised, beaten, whipped, burned, tortured, racked, dismembered, hanged, and whatever else there is to do him harm, and he goes on embracing the very thing which is killing him. What's his problem? Unawareness of that God-hating, 3-letter word-SIN!

Fallen man has the thirst to drink iniquity like water (Job 15:16). He is likened to filthy rags in his selfrighteousness, yet he would swear his clothing is the finest among men (Is.64:6). He is thankful that he is not as other men while he lists his virtues before the holy God (Luke 18:11,12). With his foul breath he swears and lies and with his hands he kills and steals, and walks among his fellow humans as the epitome of goodness (Hosea 4:2).

What is the problem here? It is ganglineuropathy. He has no sense of sin, and therefore he is immune to seeking a cure for his malady.

Oh, poor preachers' that must convince a sinner that he is one, when he feels nothing. Ah, but the great God will take His preachers voice and cut to the heart to cause that unfeeling wretch to see his condition. "Now saith the Lord, turn ye with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning, and rend your heart, and turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness" (Joel 2:12,13). "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take a way the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh" (Ez. 36:26).

Our Lord Jesus Christ is then seen and taken hold of by the sinner. Cured of ganglineuropathy, he is now made sensible to the pain of sin and flees to the great Remedy. This will not happen until He comes in great power. We just keep on telling, and waiting on the blessed Spirit.