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Written by Ray Stedman (1917-1992), an American pastor and author.

Remember what the scripture says is the condition of man without Christ? Dead! How far would you get if you took a sales course and went to graveyards to sell your product to corpses? When scripture says that men and women are dead in trespasses and sins, it isn’t just using language lightly. That is exactly the condition they are in, and every attempt to try to argue or reason a person into salvation apart from the Holy Spirit is like arguing with a corpse. A corpse has only one great need, and that is life.

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins [Colossians 2:13]