HELPLESSLY DEAD...MADE ALIVE BY GOD Romans 5:6 " When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners." Ephesians 2:4-5 " But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)" It is utter folly to think that human beings can live strong, whole and complete lives without the Presence, Life and Power of God. Unless God, Himself, becomes Life within us, unless He is life within us by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit then real life, full humanity is an impossibility. Spiritually dead people have no more ability to change their condition on their own than a corpse has the capacity to become enlivened by the exertion of its own power. It has no power, no life in it to do anything. Even decomposition is not due to its action. What is dead cannot change its circumstance. Th...