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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.

The salvation of a even single life is of God, by God, in God and through God alone. He alone has conquered death. He alone has destroyed the power of sin to separate us eternally from Him. He alone gives forgiveness as the fruit born of repentance and faith, both His gifts to all who will believe what He has finished in Jesus Christ.

Your "strength" is not needed to receive God's strength of new and eternal life. You have no strength to rescue yourself. He alone can do this, and He is waiting for you to surrender to Him the whole of your life. He has no desire to, nor will He only raise part of you from spiritual death while the rest continues to decompose beyond true humanness as it rots away enthralled by the world.

Surrender all of you, for your eyes have never seen, nor have your ears ever heard of the things God has prepared for those who love Him. These incredible things are only revealed by the Life of God within a person by the Power of the Holy Spirit. There is so much more in being fully alive!

It was when we were dead in our sin, powerless and helpless, that Christ Jesus died for our sin so that we might live in Him, through Him and by Him. BELIEVE HIM! BE FORGIVEN! LIVE!

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